The Sources of the Book

Starts
Monday, May 5th
Ends
Saturday, May 10th
THE SOURCES OF THE BOOK:  An Anatomy of the Literary Beginnings of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

May 5-10th, 7-9 PM at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1
tel.  020 7242 8037 fax 020 7242 8036 email

Lecturers:  Professor R. Joseph Hoffmann, Senior Vice President of the Center for Inquiry and Head of The CFI Institute; Adjunct Professor of History at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

Ibn Warraq, MA, distinguished author of Why I am Not a Muslim, and Whose Koran?  Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry, Amherst, New York.

This six day course is an intensive exploration of the literary origins of the books that define the Jewish, Christian and Islamic world-views.  It is sometimes thought that the sacred scriptures of the book religions emerged from the pages of history as a fully developed canon.  In fact, the materials themselves were the product of disagreement, heresy, rivalry between sectarian perspectives, and attempts to glorify their founders and beliefs.  Join R. Joseph Hoffmann and Ibn Warraq for an unusual tour of the “origins” of the books and learn what critical modern scholarship has to tell us about the dating, origin, and purposes of the Bible and the Qur’an.

Registration fee:  £30.00; registration is limited.

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