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The Lives of Jesus and Muhammad

The purpose of this research is to compare and contrast the lives of Jesus and Muhammad in relation to their respective religions. The plan of the research will be to put the biographies of Jesus and Muhammad into historical context and then discuss the impact the death of each person had on his respective religion, modes of worship, and modern elaborations of the original message.

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:

Thou has said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven (Matt. 26.64).

The execution of Jesus appears to have offered an opportunity for the Jewish high priesthood very protective of its religious authority to cooperate with Roman magistracy very protective of its civil authority--even though the evidence of history is that the relationship between Jews and what Campbell calls "Great Rome" (1964, pp. 349ff) was a difficult one. The Roman Empire had been c...

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