Islamic Republic of Iran Claims It Has Some Friends in Extremely High Places

all their efforts to explain it away, it’s quite clear what happened here: In Arabic, the names Mary and Miriam, the sister of Aaron and Moses, are both rendered Maryam. The authors of the Qur’an, having only a sketchy knowledge of Biblical history, assumed that the two women were one and the same, and thus further assumed that Jesus was Moses’ nephew.continue reading …