
History Testifies to the Infallibility of the Qur'an ; Early History of the Children of Israel
Internal inconsistencies in the Bible were never difficult to spot. In the 19th and 20th centuries, new data from archaeological excavations in sites of Biblical times has also exposed so many fundamental flaws in the Bible’s account of history, including its version of the early history of the Children of Israel. Scholars differed in their reaction to this. Some chose to reject parts of the Biblical narrative and accept others which they considered reconcilable with attested historical facts. Other scholars simply decided that the exodus and related events are mere Biblical fiction. What scholars could not disagree on, however, is the unreliability of the Bible. In their quest for an answer to the question of the historicity or non-historicity of the exodus and other Biblical claims about the early history of the Israelites, scholars made the most of every bit of textual and artifactual information that they gained access to. Yet throughout the long history of the scholarly interest in this subject, the Qur'anic account of the early history of the Israelites has been persistently ignored. This book amends this situation and highlights the very significant implications of studying
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