First of all, whenever you take out a loan you are basically signing a contract to the bank that you will be her slave and she will be your master.
Banks give out loans that basically it doesn't have. For example if the bank has in cash form $5 million , it can loan up to $20 million. The...
Jesus in the Quran:
"..WE GAVE JESUS THE SON OF MARY CLEAR SIGNS AND STRENGTHENED HIM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT"
HOLY QURAN 2:87
"..O MARY! GOD GIVETH THEE GLAD TIDINGS OF A WORD FROM HIM: HIS NAME WILL BE CHRIST JESUS, THE SON OF MARY.."
HOLY QURAN 3:45
"..CHRIST JESUS THE SON OF MARY WAS (NO...
Of course you are going to be prejudice on religious book because you are obviously an Atheist.
Anyhow, all religious books, manuscripts and scrolls can be used to extract historical witnesses. Archaeologists for example use Egyptian Hieroglyphics to reason how the early Egyptians lived in the...
Any academic scholar of history will use any source of historical knowledge. The Bible, Torah, and also the Quran speaks about Moses. We can agree upon that those texts are historical in context. Therefore we can conclude that the person Moses those texts speak about are of the same man.
Now how...
True to the first paragraph. The onlookers from the outside "gentile" coined the name Judaism to refer that religion upon the Kingdom of Judah. Thus thereafter, generations later the Jews themselves adopted that term to identify themselves.
"Moses is a mythic figure" - What makes you say this?
Actually Judaism was coined by the people who despised the Jews. Moses never said his religion was Judaism.
But then later generations liked that term and adopted it.
According to historians, Moses never described himself or said he was part of "Judaism". Historians also add that the word Judaism came from the enemies of Jews. They said that this "religion" is the religion of Juda's son.
In regards to illiteracy, I will have to agree with you. And the reason for the illiteracy thanks to the Marxist ideologies prominent in many of those regions. Also thanks to the so-called democracy and polytheistic pressures upon the Muslims people.