Sunday, November 2, 2025

The Old Testament Canon According to the "Apology of al-Kindī"

  

The Old Testament is this: the Law, the book of Joshua son of Nun, the book of Judges, the book of the prophet Samuel, the book of Kings, the Psalms of David, the Wisdom of Solomon, the book of Job, the book of Isaiah, the book of Jeremiah, the book of Ezekiel, the book of Daniel. This is the whole of the Old Testament. (“Apology of al-Kindī,” in Medieval Latin Lives of Muhammad [trans. Julian Yolles and Jessica Weiss; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 51; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018], )

 

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