I just posted the relevant passage from the Doctrina Jacobi in the muhammad thread.
It is, frankly, little more than hearsay. One guy told another guy a story which was written down by another guy a couple of years later.Muslims avoid it like the plague because it contradicts their claim that muhammad died in 632 CE but even worse portrays him as a xtian prophet proclaiming the coming of christ.
What it does do is provide incidental evidence to the religious underpinings of the conflict between the Byzantines and the Saracens. Authors like Christoph Luxenbourg and Robert Spencer have suggested that heretical xtian groups were evicted from the Byzantine Empire and came flying back in the aftermath of the bloody wars which devastated both the Byzantine and Persian empires.
So I don't see much of value to the basic muslim fairy tale but it is only 2 years after the supposed death of this muhammad guy. We have nothing remotely like it for "jesus."
One securely dated document to c 40 CE which made reference to even an idiotic belief that some crucified man came back to life would at least establish that someone at the time thought such nonsense was possible. Alas, we have nothing along those lines.
It is, frankly, little more than hearsay. One guy told another guy a story which was written down by another guy a couple of years later.Muslims avoid it like the plague because it contradicts their claim that muhammad died in 632 CE but even worse portrays him as a xtian prophet proclaiming the coming of christ.
What it does do is provide incidental evidence to the religious underpinings of the conflict between the Byzantines and the Saracens. Authors like Christoph Luxenbourg and Robert Spencer have suggested that heretical xtian groups were evicted from the Byzantine Empire and came flying back in the aftermath of the bloody wars which devastated both the Byzantine and Persian empires.
So I don't see much of value to the basic muslim fairy tale but it is only 2 years after the supposed death of this muhammad guy. We have nothing remotely like it for "jesus."
One securely dated document to c 40 CE which made reference to even an idiotic belief that some crucified man came back to life would at least establish that someone at the time thought such nonsense was possible. Alas, we have nothing along those lines.
Robert G. Ingersoll : “No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.”