Obituary of Rapahel Patai in New York TImes
How I wish they had invented the wordprocessor before 1980!
Google Books Link to The Hebrew Goddess by Patai
Wiki on Arianism
Dhu, Please give refs to any scholars who think Islam was to evangelize the interior Arabs for I too have come to that conclusion.
My take is that its a form of evangelism and that Muhammad had to take into account the local knowldege of the Semitic people while crafting the message. They already knew a lot of the Abraham story and about the transformation of the Jewish history through the ages. He had to tell them he was the last Prophet.
How I wish they had invented the wordprocessor before 1980!
Google Books Link to The Hebrew Goddess by Patai
Wiki on Arianism
Dhu, Please give refs to any scholars who think Islam was to evangelize the interior Arabs for I too have come to that conclusion.
My take is that its a form of evangelism and that Muhammad had to take into account the local knowldege of the Semitic people while crafting the message. They already knew a lot of the Abraham story and about the transformation of the Jewish history through the ages. He had to tell them he was the last Prophet.