Editing Christianity and Islam (section)

===Scriptures===
The Christian Bible is made up of the [[Old Testament]] and the [[New Testament]]. The Old Testament was written over a period of two millennia prior to the birth of Christ. The New Testament was written in the decades following the death of Christ.  Historically, Christians universally believed that the entire Bible was the divinely inspired Word of God. However, the rise of harsher criticism during [[the Enlightenment]] has led to a diversity of views concerning the authority and inerrancy of the Bible in different denominations. Christians consider the Quran to be a [[History of the Quran#Skeptical scholars|non-divine]] set of texts.{{multiple image
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The Quran dates from the early 7th century or decades thereafter. Muslims believe it was revealed to Muhammad, gradually over a period of approximately 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609,<ref>* ''Chronology of Prophetic Events'', Fazlur Rehman Shaikh (2001) p. 50 Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd.
* {{qref|17|105|b=y}}</ref> when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632, the year of his death.<ref name="Britannica2">{{cite encyclopedia|year=2007|title=Qurʾān|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/487666/Quran|access-date=24 September 2013|last=Nasr|first=Seyyed Hossein|author-link=Seyyed Hossein Nasr}}</ref><ref name="LivRlgP3382">''Living Religions: An Encyclopaedia of the World's Faiths'', Mary Pat Fisher, 1997, page 338, I.B. Tauris Publishers.</ref><ref name="QuranC17V1062">{{qref|17|106|b=y}}</ref> The Quran is written mostly in [[parable]] and not in form of a linear process of history. However, the stories often involve Biblical figures.<ref>{{cite book | doi=10.1163/ej.9789004177529.i-536.65 | chapter=From Haggadic Exegesis to Myth: Popular Stories of the Prophets in Islam | title=Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture | date=2009 | last1=Hagen | first1=Gottfried | pages=301–316 | isbn=978-90-04-17752-9 }}</ref> By that, the Quran assumes that the audience is familiar with their associated narratives. Sometimes, stories featuring in the Bible are summarized, dwelled at length, and sometimes entirely different.<ref name="sanigosian">{{cite book|last=Nigosian|first=S.A.|title=Islam: its history, teaching and practices|year=2004|publisher=Indiana Univ. Press|isbn=0-253-21627-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/islamitshistoryt0000nigo/page/65 65–80]|edition=[New ed.].|url=https://archive.org/details/islamitshistoryt0000nigo/page/65}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Brannon M.|last=Wheeler|year=2002|title=Prophets in the Quran: an introduction to the Quran and Muslim exegesis|publisher=Continuum|page=15|isbn=978-0-8264-4956-6}}</ref> Another difference in style is that the Bible offers a linear set of time, from the beginning of the narrative to its end, while the Quran implies a cyclical pattern, in which the main narrative of the Quran unfolds repeatedly at the time of each prophet.<ref>Dakake, Maria M. "Myth and History in Islamic Thought: A Comparison with the Jewish and Christian Traditions." Buddhist-Christian Studies 42.42 (2022): 279-298.</ref>

Muslims believe that Jesus was given the [[Injil]] (Greek ''evangel'', or ''Gospel'') by God, however that parts or the entirety of these teachings were lost or distorted (''[[tahrif]]'') to produce the [[Hebrew Bible]] and the Christian [[New Testament]]. The majority of Muslims consider the Quran to be the only [[Islamic Holy Books|revealed book]] that has been protected by God from [[tahrif|distortion or corruption]].<ref>Understanding the Qurán – Page xii, Ahmad Hussein Sakr – 2000</ref>