Islamic view of the Bible
Islamic perspectives on Jewish and Christian scriptures, generally seen as inspired yet corrupted in transmission
The Quran states that several prior writings constitute holy books given by God to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel, in the same way the Quran was revealed to Muhammad. These include the Tawrat, believed by Muslims to have been given by God to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel, the Zabur (used in reference to the Psalms) revealed to David (Dawud); and the Injil revealed to Jesus (Isa). Islam generally does not identify the Christian New Testament as the divinely revealed Injil mentioned in the Qurʾan. Many Muslim scholars view the Christian’s New Testament as a different text from the Injil mentioned in the Qur’an, because they viewed the New Testament as later inventions that does not preserve the original Injil revealed to Jesus (Isa).
The idea that early scriptures revealed by God were altered, misinterpreted or corrupted (taḥrīf) used by Muslim polemical scholar as a framework to explain doctrinal divergence between Islam and Christianity regarding the New Testament or the Bible in general. Some studies have also analyzed early Islamic view regarding early Christian figure such as Paulus for his contribution to the misinterpretation of Jesus’ teaching within these framework. The theological differences regarding the New Testament lies in the doctrine that the New Testament interpreted by the Christians as the word of God, Muslim reject the idea that the New Testament is the word of God (Injil) as the New Testament contains Paul’s epistles and such that contradict the Islamic definition of the Injil.
Muslim Hebraists are Muslims who use the Bible to interpret the Qur'an. Unlike most Muslims, Muslim Hebraists allow intertextual studies between the Islamic holy books, and reject the concept of tahrif (which holds that previous revelations of God have been corrupted). The Islamic methodology of tafsir al-Qur'an bi-l-Kitab (Arabic: تفسير القرآن بالكتاب) refers to "interpreting the Qur'an with/through the Bible".
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