How do Muslims, Christians, Jews view each others holy texts?
For clarification, the holy text of the Muslims is the Quran; for Christians it is the New Testament (which, I think, includes the Old Testament; for Jews it is what everyone else calls the Old Testament, or Tanach (= Torah + Prophets + writings). In addition to this written Law, Jews also have the oral law which was finally written into the Mishna and then into the Talmud. The following link gives a good explanation:
http://www.jewfaq.org/torah.htmIll start out from the Jewish perspective.
1. Christianity. Jews have traditionally viewed the New Testament as completely invalid and/or inconsistent with the Tanach. This is nothing new; it has been a 2000 year disagreement. Tons have been written about this. I dont intend to get into a never-ending discussion about this, but think it would be informative to mention some of the main points of difference and what Jews and Christians have to say about these and then leave it at that. I think is important to say that even though traditional Jewish belief rejects the Christian belief, we dont reject it for non-Jews to believe. We reject it for our own belief. From a traditional Jewish belief, if non-Jews are observing the Seven Laws of Noah (as Christians and Muslims do) then they are doing what they should be doing. Any non-Jew who follows these laws has a place in the World to Come. See
http://www.jewfaq.org/gentiles.htm and also for Jewish attitudes toward non-Jews.
2. Islam. I think most Western Jews know almost nothing of the Quran other than it is the Holy Book of the Muslims. Those with some formal Jewish education would find nearly all of its teachings very close to, if not compatible, with our beliefs (this is my opinion so far). IMHO, the exceptions would be recognition of Jesus, and of Muhummad as the greatest prophet; and belief that there is an evil being known as Satan. Jews recognize Moses as the greatest prophet (that there will never be a greater prophet) and, if any recognition is given to Jesus, it is would be as a prophet to Christians (IMHO), but not as any divine being.
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