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You do realise that the King James Bible is just a fairly recent translation of a bunch of much older stuff and that we have much older Bibles written in variou
by hugh4 11y ago
You do realise that the King James Bible is just a fairly recent translation of a bunch of much older stuff and that we have much older Bibles written in various languages, right?
Now, a first draft of the Koran, that would put the cat among the pigeons...
- DanBC 11y agoWe've got pretty close. There's a document created within 20 years of the prophet's death: http://irfi.org/articles/articles_401_450/oldest_quran_in_the_world.htm http://irfi.org/articles/articles_401_450/oldest_quran_in_th... And there's this one too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33436021 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33436021 > These tests provide a range of dates, showing that, with a probability of more than 95%, the parchment was from between 568 and 645. > "They could well take us back to within a few years of the actual founding of Islam," said David Thomas, the university's professor of Christianity and Islam. > "According to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad received the revelations that form the Koran, the scripture of Islam, between the years 610 and 632, the year of his death."