Arguments against the Qur’an’s origin apply equally to Christian scripture.

Evidence

In our own day it has been said that the facts related in St Matthew’s Gospel were invented to make it appear as though Christ fulfilled the prophecies. This argument is of the same order as that which says that the Qur’an was constructed deliberately to appeal to the existing expectations of the pagan Arabs and the Jews of Arabia. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1442

Categorization

• XREF: This is the double-edged critique the vault’s Anidjar work traces — each side’s construction of the other’s scripture as inauthentic rebounds into its own hermeneutics.