Bøker av Howard Shin

Critical scholars have long claimed that they have led extensive surveys and excavations through the 23,000 squares of miles of the Sinai Peninsula for more than a century but have found no evidence of the mass millions of people migrating from Egypt. Following the argument presented by skeptics, many people ask whether the biblical Exodus is a fact or fiction. If all that stated in Exodus never really happened, then none of the other books of the Bible would make any sense. Exodus is the story of the birth of a nation-and the birth of some cornerstone doctrinal beliefs. Practically everything that follows it in the Bible flows from it: the miracles, the moral and ceremonial laws, the Passover, Moses, Jesus, Crucifixion, etc. It is a book of Redemption of a nation and it provides the primary model of God's idea of redemption for the nations. All that follows the book of Exodus would fall apart if the Exodus never really happened. In this book, Dr. Howard Shin provides addresses those difficult questions and provides reasonable answers that would help one defend the veracity and trustworthiness of the book of Exodus.

The Qur'an in Islam is held in the highest esteem, considered the uncreated, eternal word of God, which was transmitted to Muhammad through angel Gabriel, word for word. It is believed to be the perfect replica of the original Qur'an called the "Mother of the Book," which is "well-guarded" in heaven.Muslims believe and argue that the Qur'an is the only authentic, perfectly preserved, revelatory address to humanity, whereas all the previous scriptures have become thoroughly corrupt. However, in this book, Dr. Shin exposes the frailty of such claims and shows how the Qur'an is a melting-pot of various mythologies, Judeo-Christin scriptures, Syriac homilies, rabbinic and even heretic literature; how it has been worked on, revised, corrected; and how it has gone through five different standardizations. He also shows the textual variations in the earliest Quranic manuscripts. This book is an invaluable source that offers a precise and reasonable analysis of the Qur'an. It is essential reading for all those who wish to understand the relationship between Islam and the religious context of late antiquity.