Hidden origins of islam

[Amatsyah]

Shlama Judge,

Thank you for the heads-up on this new work. The publisher is actually the same publisher of Ibn Warraq's works.



Shlama Albion,

I think you might be thinking about this thread:

Forum --> General --> "The Language of the Quran: Aramaic?" by Christina
(Wed. Mar. 26, 2008).

If so, then I would then guess that you might be remembering an excerpt along the lines of:

???There are numerous Qur???anic verses that are borrowed from the Old Testament. We will examine those similarities in this book. Others are taken from the Talmud; the following chapters will show the sources of those verses. Certain verses are borrowed from ecclesiastical writings of early Christian authorities that are known to exist, and yet were omitted from the authorized New Testament. There are 16 verses from chapter 18 that are taken from the story of the Cave written by the Syriac Metropolitan, Jacob of Suruj (431-521 A.D.).???
[p.17, Sawma]

.... or perhaps ....

???The tools I used to write this book are: Biblia Hebraica, Biblical Aramaic, the Syriac Peshito (Fshito), the liturgy and hymns of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch as taught by Professor, the late Patriarch Jacob III of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, and Professor Malfono Asmar El-Khoury; the dialect of Eastern Syriac as spoken in the region of Tur Abdin in South East Turkey and the Jazirah district in east Syria; the magnificent handwritten Syriac Bible of the Four Gospels scribed by my late professor, Malfono Asmar El-Khoury, of St. Severius College in Beirut, Lebanon, to whom I owe my knowledge of Syriac; the Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (H&EL) ???.???
[p.21, Sawma]

.... ???????

Just a thought. BTW, does your PM or email work? Something's come upon my heart.

P.S. Judge if you buy and finish reading this book, I'd really enjoy 'A reader's review'.

Ditto, Judge!



Blessings!