البحث عن يسوع Quotes

“The Gospel of Matthew has a misquoting from the prophet Zechariah (11:12-13), which he wrongly attributes to Jeremiah.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“Jesus was, if anything, far more useful than dangerous to the Romans.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“Jesus himself did not baptize anyone; only his disciples did; This statement, which interrupts the narrative of the Gospel of John at one point (4:2), suggests that Jesus was not much concerned with making religious conversions. His own political preaching .. offers himself as the promised Messiah.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“The priestly class of the Sadducees quarreled endlessly with the rabbis of the Pharisee sect. The Sadduccees strictly upheld the original Israelite monotheism of Moses; the Pharisees, in the tradition of Ezra, gave this same monotheism a broader interpretation which took into account the scriptual contributions of all the Biblical prophets, as well as the so-called 'Oral Torah', which was subsequently to provide the basic material for the Talmud.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“Surprisingly, the only kings of historical times who did claim descent from David were Christians, not Jews.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“Jesus was an Israelite of the tribe of Juda. It does not follow that he was a Jew, and indeed there is evidence to suggest that he actually belonged to another Israelite religious sect, the Nazarenes.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“There was a Christianity in Arabia -that of the Nasara, or 'Nazarenes'- which was several centuries older than the one which relates to the historical Jesus of the Gospels: a primordial Christianity which survived on its original home ground certainly until the coming of Islam.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“Writing his geographical dictionary, a North african Arab originally from the Yemen, expanded on the history of pre-Islamic Christianity in the region of Najran, on the north-eastern peripheries of the Yemen, remarking unequivocally that 'the origins of this religion was in Najran'.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“Jesus had disciples whose names are cited in the Gospels, though not always with consistency .. Luke refers to a tax collector called Levi (5:27-9). Mark identifies the same man as Levi the son of Alphaeus (2:13-14). In Matthew, the tax collector is called Matthew (9:9, 10:3), a name which is given by Mark (3:18) and Luke (6:15) to another disciple. Matthew (16:17) and John (1:42) identify Simon as Bar-Jona, or 'the son of Jona', when they relate how Simon came to be surnamed Cephas, or Peter; however John (21:15) calls the disciple 'Simon Jona', as if Jona was his surname.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“The first-hand information Paul needed about Jesus either as a man, or as the promised Jewish Messiah was to be found in Arabia rather than in Jerusalem. This means the historical Jesus had some connection with Arabia .. Paul's visit to Arabia is a historical fact.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“The story, as related by Eusebius, cinfirms that Jesus did have at least one brother other than James who was in fact called Judas. It further suggests that the career of Jesus could have had a political as well as a religious dimension.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“It is not certain that the mother of the historical Jesus was called Mary .. The mother of Jesus could not have been called Mary is she really did have a sister by the same name .. Christian tradition has assumed that the two women were half sisters.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“According to John 7:41-42, many people in Jerusalem did not accept Jesus as the Messiah because he came from Galilee, whereas the Messiah was supposed to be born in Bethlehem. So, according to one tradition, Jesus was not born in Bethlehem.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“Most scholars today agree that the Gospels cannot be regarded strictly as history; not as many may be prepared to admit how little history they actually contain.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“Paul did go to Arabia, and not to Jerusalem, immediately following his conversion.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“Why did Paul, having experienced his revelations of Jesus as the Son of God, decide to go at once to Arabia instead of Jerusalem?”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل

“Followers of Paul called themselves 'Christians' ... followers of Jesus in Jerusalem used to be called 'Nazarenes'.”
― Kamal Salibi, البحث عن يسوع : قراءة جديدة في الأناجيل