It's not only biblical, it features in Islamic traditions also. People fail to see the similarities between the two religions! Both the religions have the same prophets with different names, there is also a lot in the Qu'ran (to my belief) about Mary, but called Mariam (feel free to ...
That Renaissance, of course, was made possible by an influx of science and art from the Islamic world, which was flourishing while Christian Europe waddled in mud and pestilence. The yoke was thrown off also from the shoulders of science, which resulted in the absurd and oxymoronic "debate"...
Hagar is described as Sarah’s slave in Genesis 16:1. Hagar (Hajar in Arabic) as an historical person is not attested to before the Babylonian exile or the 6th Century BCE and she is nowhere mentioned in the pre-Islamic tales of the Peninsula. However, both Abraham and Ishmael are mentio...
As the first pages of the Old Testament tell us, Eve was the first woman, created by God as a wife for the first man,Adam. God fashioned Eve from Adam’s rib while he slept. The story is quite similar to a Sumerian myth: in this case, the word for “rib” was a pun on the ...
What is the Queen of Sheba known for? Where was the Queen of Sheba from? What were the Queen of Sheba’s beliefs? Queen of Sheba (flourished 10th century bce) was, according to Jewish and Islamic traditions, the ruler of the kingdom of Sabaʾ (or Sheba) in southwestern Arabia. In ...