The Lives of Jesus and Muhammad

The core biographical fact that Christianity assigns to Jesus' life is the manner of his death and its aftermath, which became the foundation of the entire religion. It is all contained in the text of the New Testament, which is the doctrinal and scriptural foundation of the religion. The gospels are accounts of Jesus' life and work, and accounts of the Crucifixion vary somewhat in the details. The basic information is that in the first century AD (CE) a Jew named Jesus was identified as a heretic and ambitious politician. At the instigation of the Sanhedrin, or highest legal authority of the Jews during the early Roman imperial period, he was handed over to Roman authorities for torture and execution. In the texts (e.g., Matt. 26) Jesus is accused of saying that He would destroy and then rebuild the temple; this is taken as Jesus's statement that He is the Son of God, which is held by the Jews to be blasphemy, a capital offense. This is further complicated by Jesus's affirmation of previous statements:

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eded Judaism, so did Islam absorb both Judaism and Christianity. It is generally accepted that "Islam reveres the prophets of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, among whom Jesus is included. . . . Of these, Muhammad was the last and greatest" (Campbell, 1964, p. 464). This point of view is that Islam is the outgrowth and perfection of all religions preceding. "The People of the Book," as the Jews are termed in the Koran, are declared to have closed their eyes to the confirmation of their own heritage when they rejected the message of Islam; and the Christians, with their trinitarian doctrines, added gods unto God, misreading the words of their own prophet Jesus, which are to be understood directly in the line of Abraham, Moses, Solomon, and Mohammed. (Campbell, 1964, p. 422) Campbell notes that there was one big difference between Islam and Judaism, and this was that Islam was conceived as a universal religion, while Judaism has always been more specifically ethnic in character. As heir to Judaism, Christianity can be said to have acquired a universal character as its institutions developed. However, Islam was self-consciously universalist and exceptionalist in its original formulation. This leads to a key feature of Islam: T
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