This paper introduces the historical sources: ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman that deal with the history of Palestine and Jerusalem. These sources have been overlooked and silenced, since they contest, refute and invalidate the occurrence of the events of the Jewish narrative and expose the fallacy and fabrication inherent in it. This paper also demonstrates the technicality of putting these silenced sources into use. In order to achieve this objective, it reviews the narrative of the written Jewish sources and the silenced historical ones and demonstrates how the latter contradict the former and invalidate them, and how the silenced historical ones are totally devoid of any of the false claims related to the historical events as mentioned in the written Jewish narrative.This paper juxtaposes both the written Jewish and the Qur'anic narratives. The latter, for the most part, registers ultra-historic religious miracles, and not real human historical events. The paper exposes the exaggerations and fabrications in the written Jewish narrative that transforms the ‘religious miracle' into a ‘lived human historical event', in an effort to incorporate the Jews into the history of Palestine and the Arab region.
Citation:
Badi' Al-'Abed, “Silenced historical sources and the Qur'anic narrative on the history of Palestine and Jerusalem". - Historical kan Periodical. - Vol. (11) Issue (40); June 2018. Pp. 203 – 221.