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The mainstream Islamic claim is that Prophet Muhammad did not write the Quran; he received it as revelation from God through the angel Gabriel and his followers recorded and later compiled the text. S...
Ethiopian Orthodox theologians ground the doctrine of saints’ intercession primarily in the Bible as read in the Ethiopian canon (Old and New Testaments), in biblical-apocryphal texts such as 1 Enoch ...
The Book of 1 Enoch most directly intersects with New Testament angelology and eschatology in a handful of identifiable passages: the Watchers narrative (1 Enoch 6–8), the judicial imprisonment of fal...
The question whether the Qur’an is literally the words of God or a human forgery divides straightforwardly along confessional and scholarly lines: Muslim tradition and many Islamic scholars assert div...
The Bible repeatedly portrays some angels as male in appearance and with masculine pronouns—examples include the visitors to Abraham and Lot, Gabriel and Michael, and angelic figures at Jesus’ tomb an...