| Blount, Revelation: A Commentary, 346• sources are not contemporaneous with the events they purport to relate and sometimes were written many centuries later | Gerd Theissen, John Bowden, Fortress introduction to the New Testament , 166 |
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| Frances Carey, The Apocalypse and the shape of things to come, 138• Peter Teed 1992 , p | however, there is no relevant archaeological, epigraphic, or numismatic evidence dating from the time of Muhammad, nor are there any references to him in non-Muslim sources dating from the period before 632 |
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| Lapidus 2002 , pp 0 | 137 Netanel's work was virtually unknown beyond his native Yemen until modern times, so had little influence on later Jewish thought• Richard Dellamora, Postmodern apocalypse: theory and cultural practice at the end, 117• Unveiling The Messiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls 2012 ed |
El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs 2004, Harvard University Press p.