Thanks again

Submitted by Michael S (United States), Feb 3, 2015 at 23:03

Thanks again for the Qur'an quotes.

I hate to have to think of learning Arabic, though I do have an Arabic Qur'an along with an English translation by Muhammad Zafrulla Khan. I also have the Septuagint in Greek and English, a Peshitta New Testament in Aramaic and English, an interlinear Greek-English NT and a Kohlenberger Hebrew-English "Old Testament", a translation of the Apocrypha and several pseudepigraphical books. All this and more, of course, are available online. I gave up on studying languages, though, when my children went to China. When I need a quote in the original language now, I just go online and cut/paste.

I just looked up at my bookshelves -- Die Heilige Schrift in Fraktur, an Artscroll Hebrew-English siddur... there's just no end to this religion business, huh? I bought the siddur when I was trying to convert to Judaism; the other books were mostly to learn the truth. I even studied the Qur'an with that intent, over 40 years ago, along with other "spiritual" books of various religions. Mishnah, the Book of Mormon... it gets to be a bore after a while -- all except the Bible, which I prefer reading in English translation. After all these decades, I've never gotten bored reading it: Every time I open the book, I see something new.

All the best.

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