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Jesus And Muhammad, Parallel Minds Summary

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Jesus and Muhammad, Parallel Tracks, Parallel Minds, is written by F.E. Peters. The time periods for this book is, AD 610-632, which is Muhammad’s time, and 4 BC-AD 30, for Jesus’ time. The genre of this book is religious leaders whose lives a very similar, but quite different. The main theme in this story, is comparing the lives and teachings of Jesus and Muhammad; the Christian and Muslim leaders. This book goes through the birth to the death of these leaders, describing each role in their religion, and how they are viewed. The lives of Jesus and Muhammad are very similar because they are both religious leaders, whom millions follow, have proof of their existence, and are both sent from God. Even though Jesus and Muhammad are different, …show more content…

Jesus has the bible, and the apocrypha to prove his existence. Jesus’ life was written by four apostles: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They write about Jesus, even before he was born, until the day he died. These are found in the New Testament in the bible, these are called the “Good News”, which were written by those four gospels. These were written in the beginning of the century, approximately in the 50s by Paul, and end at the turn of the century, in the Apocalypse. The Apocalypse is basically like the book of Revelations, which tells about the end of the world, when Jesus will come for the second time. The other source of Jesus is the Apocrypha, which are works that are not included in the bible. Also, can be considered a Gospel, only not included in the New Testament. Muhammad’s “proof” of existence is recorded in the Quran is the Islam book, that they believe was from God. The Quran was similar to that of “Good News of Jesus”, only the Quran is like the “good news”, not Muhammad. Muhammad wasn’t written about in the Quran, his doings were only spoken among the Muslims. Since Muslim’s were illiterate for up until the next century, nothing was written about the life of Muhammad. Since then, many books such as the “The Raids” of Ibn Ishaq have been written about Muhammad and the Muslim view of the

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