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Muhammad regarded many of the precepts given to the Jews as a punishment from G d and for that reason a Moslem is not obligated to observe them. Thus, the Koran disregards the Jewish concept of a day of rest, inheritance laws, and dietary laws, but prescribes the rite of circumcision & prohibits the use of blood and of the meat of a pig or of an animal that "dieth of itself" for culinary purposes.

The Koranic stories of the Creation, life in Paradise, the question as to whether earth or heavens came first, the objection of the angels to the creation of man, Adam's remarkable wisdom, Satan's rejection of Adam, Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, Adam's universal lesson for
repentance, stem from biblical and midrashic elements.

The stories about Israel's covenant with G d, the travails in Egypt, the miracles of the Red Sea, the making of the golden calf after Mosheh went up the mountain Horev in Sinai, the Israelite's request to see G d manifestly in order to believe in "Him", the restoration of the stricken dead to life, the pillar of cloud, the manna & the quails, Moses' smiting of the rock, the objection to the taste of the manna, the giving of the Torah by 'raising the mountain,' the breakers of the sabbath, the red heifer ~ all these stories in the Koran are traceable to Jewish origins.

Likewise, the concepts of ethical monotheism, the unity of G d, prayer, consideration for the underprivileged, reverence to parents, fasting, peni-tence, the belief in angels, the stories about Abraham (Avram/Avraham/Ibrahim), the Patriarchs, Samuel, Saul, David, Solomon, the injunction of a pilgrimage to Mecca, waging war against the enemy, the status of women, and the position of prophets, all have their antecedents in Jewish tradition. In tracing the rabbinic background of each Koranic verse & in relating it to the comments by authoritative Moslem exegetes, we feel that we have succeeded in shedding new light upon the debt Islam owes to Judaism. Many biblical stories and sayings (especially from the Penta-teuch & the Psalms), intertwined with an inexhaustible amount of Talmudic and midrashic tales, weave the structural core of the Koran and it's exegeses.