@icread37@EclipseCaptain@InspiringPhilos@CanyonMimbs You’re treating one interpretation as settled fact. Oxford scholarship proposes al-sāmirī may be an epithet for Aaron, not a later Samaritan. So your “obvious anachronism” isn’t nearly as settled as you pretend. (https://t.co/WQs7KcwRmP)
@icread37@EclipseCaptain@InspiringPhilos@CanyonMimbs I know. Your problem is the leap parallel → dependence → plagiarism. Current scholarship explicitly rejects treating that chain as automatic; some parallels may even be independent. (https://t.co/qbRr1xuXkp)
@icread37@EclipseCaptain@InspiringPhilos@CanyonMimbs That’s not unfalsifiability You’re conflating there are parallels with therefore it was plagiarised.Even scholars who argue for adaptation say there’s no single model explaining the Qur’an’s relationship with its intertexts.Your argument is far less settled than you’re pretending