(June 23, 2017 at 8:15 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: The work I'm referring to is from the 10th century, although they believe that the Greek and Arabic versions diverges a while before that.
However the question still remains, what facts or reasons, do you think that this version is an interpolation?
10th century or 12th, it's still at least the better part of nine hundred years after the fact. Plenty of room for a little 'creative accounting'; especially when you throw people with access to original documents and an agenda into the mix.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'