sTs - your info. on earliest Biblical transcripts is not correct

Submitted by jennifer solis (United States), Dec 15, 2008 at 18:20

The earliest Biblical scripture existing today was written in the original Greek, not Latin.

The earliest known existing papyri manuscripts of the New Testament (in Greek) date from 125 A.D.

There are 5,300+ seperate Greek language copies of these early manuscripts, written within 200 years of Christ's death (30 A.D.) - these reveal a 99.5% internal consistency.

Locations of these ancient papyrus -

http://www.carm.org/evidence/textualevidence.htm

The oldest known single, complete Bible (Old as well as New Testaments) is the Codex Sinaiticus, written in Greek, dating from the third or fourth century -

http://www.allabouttruth.org/oldest-known-copy-of-the-bible-faq.htm

Claims have been made that the oldest partial Koran (1/3 of it remains; approx. 250 pages) resides today in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. There has been no scientific (carbon dating, etc.) testing to approximate it's date; however, it is claimed by it's owner to be from the year 651, a mere 19 years after Muhammad's death -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4581684.stm

The oldest known single, complete copy of the Koran sold for $2.3 Million last year at a London auction; it dates 1203 A.D., 500+ years after Muhammad's death; it was written in kufic script. Also sold was a nearly complete, 10th-century Kufic Koran ($1,870,000) -

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304743,00.html

Then we have the discovery of the Yemeni Korans, some of which dates back to the seventh century, interestingly written in the rare and early Hijazi Arabic script - these contain variant readings, which contradict today's modern Koran -

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Gerd-R.-Puin

Since the early 1980s more than 15,000 sheets of the Yemeni Korans have painstakingly been flattened, cleaned, treated, sorted, and assembled; they now sit in Yemen's House of Manuscripts, hidden from public view. Detailed examination is forbidden.

Until these ancient documents (Yemeni Korans, Tashkent Koran, the Kufic Korans, etc.) are able to be examined, compared, and cross-referenced, you, sTs, have not a leg to stand on.

Again, there are thousands of (Greek) Biblical manuscripts availiable, dating from within 200 years of Christ's death; these, along with the later Codex Sinaiticus (Greek) and Codex Vaticanius(Greek), have an internal consistency of 99.5%.

When Islam can provide comparable evidence of the same regarding the Koran, I'll be impressed.

P.S. ~ Do you consider the Hadiths and Sunna to be an addition to the Koran?

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