(August 9, 2021 at 3:23 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: It literally wasn't possible to check whether information about some ancient pharaoh is accurate because, as I said, nobody in Arabia could decipher hieroglyphs. Even now, not many people can understand ancient egyptian. We're then left with hearsay, the problem with popular stories about some pharaoh is that they are mixed with myths and exaggerations. My question stands, how could Muhammad pick exact details like those mentioned in the midst of mythology??
Because it wasn't a minor detail and because the Pharaohs advertised the fact. That's rather the point to being a god king. Not much sense in not having the peasants grovelling from your divine majesty. They were hardly the only culture to pull that stunt either. The Babylonians, Syrians, Romans, and the Chinese emperors all tried the same schtick.
It's a little odd that you're even trying to maintain this position while simultaneously quoting portions of the Quran that clearly borrow heavily from Exodus/Shemot. It's clear that the Jews knew this. It would have been rather tricky for them to have missed it. It's equally clear that Muhammad had more than passing acquaintance with both Jewish and Christian societies. How then is it even vaguely unlikely that he couldn't have known about the god kings of Egypt from mundane sources?
