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C. 840), who supposedly discussed the problem of "naskh al-sharai'" with a Jew named Yassa b. Salih. The short text was published by L. Cheikho in his Vingt traitis theologiques d'auteurs Arabes Chritiens (Beirut 1920), pp. 68-70. Jewish Gaonic literature also often dealt with this subject (which is mentioned already in Rabbinic literature) in polemics against both Christianity and Islam. See S. Abramson, R. 15 12:29 38 · Chapter Two tailed Muslim discussions of this subject in Arabic litera­ ture, however, stem from the end of the tenth or early elev­ enth century—for example, by the Mu'tazilite Qadi 'Abd al-Djabbar (d.

Brinner and S. Ricks (Adanta 1986) pp. 109-21, and especially the new approach to this book by S. Stroumsa, "From Muslim Heresy to Jewish-Muslim Polemics: Ibn al-Rawandi's Kitab Al-Oamigh," JAOS 107(1987): 767-72. 15 12:29 28 · Chapter Two cases in which the given Biblical text must necessarily have been falsified and could never be ascribed to a di­ vinely inspired revelation. Interestingly, most of the many details he provides are already mentioned in various preIslamic polemical sources, such as in early Rabbinic texts or by Christian, Judaeo-Christian, anti-Christian, and Gnostic authors.

Ibn Hazm's immediate (probably Chris­ tian) sources, however, remain unknown. His main argu­ ments may be summarized as follows. Chronological and Geographical Inaccuracies. Among other inaccuracies in the holy text, Ibn Hazm discusses at length the four streams that come out of Eden and their geographical dimensions as given in Genesis 2, and sets out to prove that not all of them could have branched off from the one river in Eden (v. 27 So are the number of years allotted by the text to early Biblical personalities.

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