Jesus and Mohammed

Jesus & Mohammed                      




                                                         
                                                                    Sota” Griggs
                                                                    HUM/130
                                                                    May 30, 2010

    This paper will address the following: Trace the lives of Jesus and Mohammed historically. We are going to compare what the impact the death of each person had on his respective religion. I will describe the ways each individual was or worshipped, and explain how their messages are being carried out in the world today.
    The babe in the manger: 6 BC nothing is known of the life of Jesus other than what is recorded in the four Gospels, written down some fifty to eighty years after his death. No trace of him survives in any contemporary historical record. Nevertheless the Gospels, based on a continuous oral tradition deriving from those who knew him, contain more detail than can be assembled about anyone else of comparable obscurity in his own time.
    The evidence of the Gospels suggests that Jesus is born in about 6 BC - revealing an initial error in the chronology of the Christian era. Luke is the only evangelist to tell the story of Mary and Joseph travelling south from their home in Nazareth to Bethlehem. The reason for the journey is that the Roman emperor has ordered a census of the population, and Joseph - descended in the story from King David - must register in his ancestral home near Jerusalem. In Luke's account the birth takes place in a stable, because there is no room in the inn. Local shepherds, alerted by an angel, come to the stable to marvel at the child.

    Joseph and Mary then take the infant to Jerusalem, to be presented in the Temple, before returning to Nazareth where Jesus has a peaceful childhood. Matthew, the only other evangelist to deal with the birth and infancy... [continues]

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