The Witness of a Jewish Scholar Converted to Islam A Jewish scholar embraced Islam in the period of Sultan Bayazid of Turkey.129[6] He was given the Islamic name Abode’s-Salam. He wrote a booklet named Risalatu’l-Hida yah (The Book of Guidance) repudiating the Jews. In the third section of this book he said: The most celebrated of all the commentaries on the Pentateuch (Torah) is the one known as the Talmud, which was written in the period of Ptolemy who reigned some time after the period of Nebuchadnezzar. This commentary contains the following story. It happened that once Ptolemy asked some Jewish scholars to bring the Pentateuch into his presence. The scholars were frightened, because the king disbelieved in some of its injunctions. Seventy scholars gathered together, and what they did was change those things that he did not believe in. Now when they admit to having done this, how can one trust a single verse of such a book? In the presence of the statement of the Catholic scholar who said that the heretics of the East changed the translation which was in vogue in the churches of the East and the West and was followed by the Catholic churches up to as late as 1500, as is pointed out by Horne, the Catholics cannot save themselves from the accusation of the Protestants that they, the Catholics, have changed the Latin translation which was in vogue in their Church. Do the Catholics have any way to refute this claim?.
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