Bible Versus the Toran

Name: Sandra R. Gibson
Student I.D.: 0405713
Course: REL-275-OL
Date: 9/3/2011
Final Project

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION PAGE 1
II. AUTHORSHIP OF THE BIBLE PAGE 2 - 9
III. THE BIBLE PAGE 10 - 18
IV. AUTHORSHIP OF THE QURAN PAGE 19
V. THE QURAN PAGE 20 - 23
VI. THE BIBLE COMPARED TO QURAN PAGE 24-28
VII. FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM COMPARED TO THE TEN PAGE 29-34 COMMANDMENTS
VIII. COMPARING THE LIFE OF TWO AFRO-AMERICANS (1) MALCOM X - ISLAMIC MUSLIM/QURAN PAGE 35-43 8 (2) MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. - CHRISTIAN/BIBLE PAGE 44-48 9 (3) BOTH MEN'S POLITICAL VIEWS ON VIOLENCE AND PAGE 49-56 CHANGE IN SOCIETY (4) THE STRONG CONNECTION BETWEEN BOTH MEN PAGE 57

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I am writing this paper based on the comparsion of two religions; the Islamic faith and Christianity, also comparing two great leaders who gave their life for civil rights and justice to man-kind as a whole. Both coming from a Baptist background and
Afro-Americans. Their christianty and islamic beliefs brought world leaders to know that they have a strong connection together. By me being Catholic/
Prostestant of faith I gained a excellent outlook of the Islam religion and practices, the peoples as a whole and the unity of both religions.

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I. In Christian Bibles there are 39 books in the Old Testament the following is a summary of them and their prophets.

A. PENTATEUCH - 5 BOOKS
The first division of the Jewish Bible is the Torah, meaning "Instruction" or "Law"; in scholarly literature it is frequently called by its Greek name, the Pentateuch ("five scrolls"). It is the group