NO PROOF BY THIS POSTER IN ANY F HIS CLAIMS.

Submitted by IamJoseph (Australia), Apr 28, 2010 at 05:47

For the readers: You will notice that our dear iam the demagogue just did not address the most important part of my post and that is the Quranic evidence (eg: al-ayka or layka) we have in the text about other texts that pre-date the Qur'an by hundreds of years and these texts do not exist because they could have been destroyed or they are in a cave waiting to be discovered

# The Quran does not impact here at all - it was written around 600 CE. If something in it is claimed as pre-dating the Quran, and you claim it is subject to a yet to be discovered relic, then you should wait till that discovery occurs. It is hardly a proof now that Arabic writings predate 400 CE or thereabout. We had no proof of King david till the Tel Dan find - why is there no proof from you till now, when the Arabs were not exiled and their lands not plundered as of the Jews? This says that even in the future we cannot expect the proof you wait for.

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And if we are to follow his bogus logic then I can see his likes telling the world prior to the discovery of let us say The Gospel of Thomas (which historians knew that is existed but there was no copy) in the mid 1940's; There is no such thing as the Gospel of Thomas but we have it extant in Coptic. And as for the argument from silence" god forbid as he has no clue what it really means

# The Gospels does not impact here.

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Also notice that this thread is about what is really Egyptian Arabic? And is it a language or a dialect? You will not hear a logical answer from him. Mr ignorant I study history You? you are a demagogue now do you get it?

# Then please show some historical proof of any Arabic writings pre-400 CE like a historican should - without deflecting to EA. Note that the Hebrew and Greek do not have to look at Egyptian hybrids common to many other Arabian writings, so why do you? If there is no evidence of an Arab race pre-500 BCE - how can there be Arabic writings or Egyptian-Arab writings before this time? There is no evidence, which is why you deflect and won't admit the facts before us.

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