Danes feel Obama is greater than Jesus

[Jester]

For example, I believe the accepted Hebrew translation of the Torah makes the old testament God, much more violent than is probably the correct translation.

This would be your opinion as a Talmudic scholar? Or are you just relying on your gut instinct for Hebrew translation? I've never even heard this suggested before.

Telling me it's "hermeneutics" doesn't add anything - of course it's hermeneutics. But if I said I could fly, and told you it was "physics", I doubt you'd be impressed.

So, why have I not tossed a bunch of sources and justifications? Well, from where I sit it seems entirely fruitless for us to have a discussion, debate, argument standing on such infirm ground.

So we're left with what? Your general impression that Mohammed was probably just fakin'?

I'm sorry. Your hunches strike me as much more "infirm ground" than the scholarship you have such fantastic reasons for dismissing. And I'm certainly not buying any argument about Hebrew translations without specifics.

-Jester

Edit: You've added in books - I'll see if I can find copies. I can't say they look promising - Robert Spencer? Some guy claiming to diagnose Mohammed's mental illnesses? But what the hey. Maybe they're more than just propaganda - you're really convinced this is less "infirm" than the Cambridge History of Islam?