LECTURE 6: A FEW WORDS ON

THE BIBLE
REVELATION AS A SOURCE OF
KNOWLEDGE – RKQS 1030
Dr. Raudlotul Firdaus binti Fatah Yasin
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BIBLE composed of 2 Holy Books

New Old
INJIL - Jesus Testa Testa THORAH - Moses
ment ment
 Old
Testa THORAH - Moses
ment
New attempt to
include the sixth
book of Joshua = Pentateuch +
Pentateuch
Haggai,
Hexateuch (Greek term) =
Zechariah,
(Greek term) = 5 BOOKS
Malachi
6 BOOKS

THE BOOKS ARE TRADITIONALLY ASCRIBED TO MUSA BUT IT IS UNCERTAIN THAT

THEY WERE WRITTEN BY HIM OR IN AN AGE EITHER CONTEMPORARY WITH MUSA
A.S. OR WITHIN AN APPRECIABLE DISTANCE OF TIME FROM HIM.
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THORAH / TAWRAH revealed to Musa

Consist of three parts

TAWRAH NABIYYIN KUTUB

 THE ORIGINAL TAWRAH MUST HAVE BEEN IN THE OLD HEBREW,

BUT THERE IS NO HEBREW MANUSCRIPT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
FOUND EARLIER THAN 916CE.
 THE EXISTING HEBREW MANUSCRIPT TODAY IS A TRANSLATION
OF ITS GREEK VERSION-SEPTUAGINT WHICH HAD BEEN COMPILED
BY 70-72 JEWISH SCHOLARS WHO WERE WORKING
INDEPENDENTLY AND AT DIFFERENT TIMES.
 WHY THE AUTHENTICITY OF NEW
TESTAMENT AS A DEVINE REVELATION IS
DOUBTFUL?

1. It has lost its transcendental characters; lafz and ma’na

2. The authorship of the 4 Gospels are disputed- believed to be
completed by anonymous authors- later attributed to the four
names only by church.
3. Only 3 elements in agreement with the Qur’an-the idea of
believing in Allah and the Last Day, the theory of Creation.
4. Disputes around the original language it was revealed;
Hebrew? Aramaic?- but many are written in Greek which later
translated to Latin.
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5. The original message and teaching of Injil might have

been also suffering of change and distortion or
embedded with human arbitrary interpretations due to
unsupervised and unverified translations.
6. During the time of its compilation, each of the
generation enjoyed the freedom to revise, correct and
enhance the original contents of the sacred texts in due
process of compilation and translation.