Granada’s Christian theologians missed the Koranic resonance of the Sacromonte texts

Evidence

Al-Hajari seems to have been much more perspicacious than many of the Christian theologians in Granada at the time: they had failed to grasp the importance of the way these texts diverged over some doctrines from the Christian Bible but coincided with the Koran. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1323

Categorization

  • SEED: The Sacromonte forgeries — texts that subtly comply with a rival scripture’s criteria of authenticity — could make an essay on how apocrypha reveal the doctrinal fault lines of an era.