Culture and Religion
Pages from a checkered past
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
The Bible: Colonising a metaphor
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
For more than a century, archaeologists and historians have attempted to confirm beliefs of both Christians and Jews about their common past using the Old Testament (OT) and New Testaments (NT) as starting points. Christians, while embracing the OT as a harmless precursor of the NT, insist that the combined texts prove the truth of Judaic monotheism, with its covenant with God, a covenant that was renewed with the resurrection of Jesus as the Christ. Jews, of course, stick with the basic OT texts, insisting they alone prove their role as God's Chosen People and their right to create a Jewish state, Israel, in the Holy Land.
The attraction of Islam: Finding the inner Muslim prince
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
The Quran in translation: Reading Islam's holy book
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
In the second of his Ramadan series of articles, Eric Walberg looks at the Quran in English
20/9/7 -- The great conundrum of Islam for the non- Arabic speaker is: Can the sacred text be translated without losing its sacredness? Is the true meaning "lost in the translation"?
Islam and the West: Ever the twain shall meet
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
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