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So the skeptic here claims that the Quran plagiarised stories from the Bible. Yet somehow still got the story wrong, even though most academics are shocked at the levels of knowledge the Prophet had of Christian and Jewish traditions.
Now, here’s the fascinating bit, in the story of Joseph it somehow changed the title of the sovereign from Pharaoh, as in the Bible, to King.
The Quran also somehow makes a precise and consistent distinction in its use of titles for Egyptian rulers that happens to align with modern Egyptological findings.
When narrating the story of Joseph, it refers to the Egyptian sovereign as Malik (King), but when narrating the story of Moses, it uses Fir'awn (Pharaoh).
How did it know? Why did the Arab man in the small village make that distinction? Why did he take that risk?
The interesting thing, is this, distinction is historically very accurate:
the title "Pharaoh" only came into use as a personal designation for the Egyptian ruler during the New Kingdom period (from around the 18th Dynasty, ~1550 BCE onwards), which corresponds to Moses's era but postdates Joseph's .
The Bible, by contrast, applies "Pharaoh" anachronistically to both.
What makes this remarkable is that Muhammad's (pbuh) contemporaries, Arabian Jews and Christians, derived their knowledge of these narratives from biblical tradition, which makes the same anachronistic error throughout.
Had Muhammad, peace be upon him, simply borrowed from those sources, we would expect him to reproduce the same mistake.
Instead, the Quran corrects it consistently, using a distinction that was only recoverable through 19th century Egyptological research into hieroglyphics.
Explain..
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