📜 Ishmael: prophet in the Quran, outcast in the Bible? ✡️ ☪️
The #Quran portrays Ishmael as a prophet who helps Abraham build the Kaʿba. But in the #Bible, Abraham sends him away into the wilderness at Sarah's demand.
Was Ishmael really a threat to Isaac? And did he remain
What Biblical Studies Can Learn from the Composition of the Book of Abraham!
In 1830, Joseph Smith claimed to have translated the Book of Mormon from tablets written in Egyptian.
In 1835, he bought Egyptian funerary papyri from a traveling exhibitor, which he declared to have
The builders of the Tower of Babel—a ziggurat with “its top in the heavens”—seek to bring YHWH down its stairway to inhabit the temple, but YHWH rejects their attempt to establish His presence on their own terms.
Instead, YHWH chooses to come down to Jacob via the stairway of
The “Day of Atonement” is a Christian translation of #YomKippur!
The word “atonement” reflects a Christian theological idea that humans and God can become “at one,” an idea that does not fit the Bible’s understanding of the fundamental distinction between God and humanity.
So
