JUDEO-CHRISTIAN AND APOCRYPHAL TRADITIONS IN THE QURAN
Text topic: Studies
Key words:
- eschatological beliefs in Mahdi and in the Judgement Day
- heterodox Judeo-Christian teachings on the Holy Trinity
- Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Mother of God
- Quran and the apocrypha
- religious syncretism
Text author: Срђан Симић
As scripts for Muhammad’s religious notions of Judaism and Christianity, we can use relevant Christological teachings of the Judeo-Christian Arabs whose segments of religious and cultural syncretism we find textually conceived in the Quran. Islamic exegesis describes a number of biblical events and personalities in the spirit of Semitic and Syrian-Palestinian teachings, with all of their heterodox beliefs, which have continued to live in the Islam. Presence of the apocryphal and non-biblical texts in the Quran, points to an explicit deviation from the canonical teachings presented in the Four Gospels, and from the apostolic-patristic heritage that the Church has preserved in the Sacred Tradition.
