2007-09-23 08:24:09 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Haven't read the Koran yet. I have read the Bible.
I can see how it's an important center of belief, but i don't agree with it.
2007-09-23 08:46:48 · answer #1 · answered by Kristin ^_^ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible more times than I've kept track of. The Koran/Quran/etc. once, online.
Both are based on Abrahamic traditions.
Interestingly, I've also read about the Ebla tablets. These are archaeological finds which document a person called Abraham,
http://members.bib-arch.org/nph-proxy.pl/000000A/http/www.basarchive.org/bswbSearch.asp=3fPubID=3dBSBA&Volume=3d5&Issue=3d2&ArticleID=3d4&UserID=3d0
'The New York Times of October 25, 1976 quotes Matthiae as saying, “We have found the civilization that was the background of the people of the Old Testament.”'
[...]"This rejection of Freedman—perhaps denial would be more accurate—appears at first to be based on political grounds. But there may also be another element. Matthiae may be in part rejecting what many scholars believe to be premature and therefore unwarrantedly sensational claims about Ebla’s connections with the Bible. After all no one has yet seen the tablets. These sensational claims are frequently attributed to Freedman. Some say he has not only jumped on the Ebla bandwagon—he has sought to lead it with unjustified and overhasty claims.
"Certain press articles have indicated that the links between the Bible and Ebla were more direct than in fact is the case. Indeed, some readers have been left with the impression that the tablets referred to actual Biblical personages—which, with one possible exception to be discussed later, is clearly not the case.
"To place the Ebla tablets in chronological perspective, King David began his reign in about 1000 B.C., the Exodus from Egypt occurred about 1230 B.C. (in the opinion of most scholars), and Abraham, if he was a historical personage, lived in the early second millennium B.C. (or at least so it was thought before the Ebla tablets). The Ebla tablets date about 500 years earlier than this—to the mid-third millennium B.C."
2007-09-23 08:48:14 · answer #2 · answered by Suzanne 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've read several parts of the bible.. many different times.
I still attempt to read the bible once in a while.. but I keep finding contradictions on every other page
its quite annoying
I have the koran but its a horrible translation ..
2007-09-23 08:41:55 · answer #3 · answered by nola_cajun 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably 80% of the Bible - I've skipped a fair number of minor prophets.
I'd guess about 15% of the Koran. What I read read like a remix of the Bible.
2007-09-23 08:31:40 · answer #4 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Only small parts of the Koran. I have read the Bible several times though in different versions.
2007-09-23 08:30:05 · answer #5 · answered by U96 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes (to the Bible, no to the Koran). Twice through and still do on occassion.
But I also like to re-read The Lord of the Rings periodically. About the same class of book.
2007-09-23 08:29:28 · answer #6 · answered by the_way_of_the_turtle 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Yes on the Bible, no on the Koran. I've seen bits of it (Koran) and it's just an extension of the Bible. I don't need to study every religion to know that they are all wrong since there is no god.
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2007-09-23 08:31:41 · answer #7 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I have read the book of revelations, in the passage where it mentions "Yahoo! Answers" and the 5th horseman, "Behold, the 5th horseman of the Apocalypse rides on a binary horse, carrying a noose signifying the Jena 6, and speaking of Athiests and Agnostics. Do not answer his questions, lest ye be cast into the pit of eternal hellfire." So I make it a point of not responding to questions like these.
2007-09-23 08:33:31 · answer #8 · answered by rrbowker2002 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I have read the bible, and I've read some of the koran. Enough to know that there's some pretty funky violence in both.
2007-09-23 08:28:47 · answer #9 · answered by serious troll 6 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Read the Bible, but wasn't impressed or entertained. It didn't prove anything to me. I think that, unless you come into the reading of such holy books with preexisting theistic assumptions, the books won't have very much meaning for you.
2007-09-23 08:45:16 · answer #10 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋