Quote:1. The Quran is so beautifully written as to allow only a divine origin.
Robert Spencer refers to it as 20% unintelligible...this because the original language was Syriac not Arabic and it doesn't work so well when you try to shoehorn it in.
Quote:Spencer's book indicates much of the Koran is made up of reworked Christian tracts originally written in Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic and the primary literary language in the region at the time. He also said a lack of evidence of a written Koran until decades after Muhammad's death indicates the book itself was put together by Arabic empire-builders who wanted to unite their multinational conquests through religion.
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