Bible vs Quran - Early Versions

Development of early scripture

It is often assumed the various names for God: Yahweh, the Father and Allah refer to the same entity with similar attributes. Unfortunately, this is not true!

The table below compares the Gods and the theological differences in understanding them.

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	Bible Old Testament	Gospel 'Good News'	Bible New Testament	Quran
AUTHOR	Yahweh	Yahweh	Holy Spirit	Allah
TRANSMITTER	Angel Gabrial recited Gods words in Hebrew	Angel Gabrial recited Gods words in Hebrew or Aramaic	Holy Spirit inspired the gospel writers	Angel Gabrial recited Gods words in Arabic
PROPHET	Moses	Jesus	No prophet spoke the NT	Muhammad
AUDIENCE	Moses preached his message to his followers	Jesus preached the 'Good News' to the 12 disciples	N/A	Muhammad preached his message to his followers
Preservation (method)	Written on stone, papyrus and animal skin	May have been written on stone, papyrus and animal skin. It may even have been memorised	Written in Greek MMLJ (asserted by Irenaeus of Lyon in the late-2nd century as the Four Gospels)	Preserved in the 'oral' tradition. It was memorised by people. Later, it was written
Completion (date)	400 BC	36 AD	45-90 AD
Earliest Manuscript (complete)	1000 AD	No manuscript	120-150 AD
Date difference	1400-years	N/A	35 to 100 years
Books/words	39 books/602,585	N/A	27 books/180,552	1 book/77,439
Canon period	1000-years (approx.) and in Moses lifetime	In Jesus' lifetime	Between 30-60 years AFTER Jesus	The last 23 years of Muhammad's life
Canon determined by	Gods revelation verbatim. Jewish rabbis and scholars	Gods revelation verbatim	Roman Emperors. Christian priests	Gods revelation verbatim
Preservation (early)	The Codex Sinaticus is the earliest complete OT 330–360 The Dead Sea Scrolls well-preserved Hebrew text fragments date back to 100 BC - or 300-years after they were written, but it is not the complete OT	No preserved manuscript	Included: Book of Revelation General Epistles Excluded: 1 Clement Shepherd of Hermas Diatessaron Shepherd of Hermas Barnabas Didache Thomas Esdras Tobit Judith Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus Maccabees Destroyed: Gospel of Ebionites Gospel of Hebrews Gospel of Nazarenes
Preserved?	No It is argued, the OT was not preserved as man would have made them into an object of worship. Wars would have be fought over it, churches, synagogues or mosques built on top of it. The item itself would be too sacred to read, and only Kings and priests would ever have access to it	No Various political, religious factors contributed to the gospel's destruction	No The writings of man	Yes
First gospel			60 years later. Oldest gospel is Mark	During his lifetime, the Quran (in parts) was memorised, and written down
Compilation				3XX AD Under the caliphate of Uthman all memorisers and written recordings of Quran summoned
Scribes Authority Who was the person who instructed the compiling of the scripture?	???		Constantine? A number of Church leaders ordered the compilation of the New Testament Bible. Due to the large number of gospels, manuscripts; early compilations of books differed from church to church	Uthman Uthman ordered the compilation of the Quran when ....
Scribes Prophet > Scribes Scribes are the people who wrote down what the Prophet said, did or thought			All 27 books in the Bible are written by unknown authors. It is assumed the gospels bear the author's name, but this is false.	The famous ten people who form the chains of narration regarding the Quran are as follows. Umar ibn al Khattab Uthman bin Affan Ali ibn abi Talib Abu Musa al Ash'ari Ubay Ibn Ka'b Abdullah ibn Masood Zayd Ibn Thabit Abu Hurairah Abdullah Ibn Abbas Abu al-Darda
Scribes Compilation			180 AD The first "canon" was the Muratorian Canon is a copy of perhaps the oldest known list of most of the books of the New Testament. The fragment, consisting of 85 lines was discovered in 1740. It lists 22 of the 27 books (including the four gospels) that were later included in the New Testament of the Christian Bible - excluding Hebrews, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, James and 3 John W Muratorian_fragment 202 AD - Irenaeus quotes and cites 21 books that would end up as part of the New Testament, but does not use Philemon, Hebrews, James, 2 Peter, 3 John and Jude. 254 AD Origen of Alexandria may have been using the same 27 books as in the modern New Testament, though there were still disputes over the canonicity of Hebrews, James, 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, and Revelation. 367 AD - Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria gave a list of exactly the same books that would formally become the New Testament canon 393 AD - Synod of Hippo Regius in North Africa may have been the first council that accepted the present Catholic canon (the Canon of Trent) 397 AD - Councils of Carthage under the authority of St. Augustine regarded the canon as already closed
COMPLETION DATE		N/A
			The NT was compiled over the a number of stages. The earliest fragment from 150-years after Jesus lists 22 of the 27 books.	The Quran was received by Muhammad through the Angel Gabrial. Initially, it was recorded using the 'oral tradition' but later it was written down, sorted and numbered in the order set by Muhammad during his lifetime
Wikipedia			W Development_of_the_Christian_biblical_canon	W History_of_the_Quran

CREDIT
https://bible.org/seriespage/5-transmission
http://www.truthnet.org/Bible-Origins/8_Transmission-of-the-Old-Testament/index.htm#_ftn1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_manuscript
http://www.bible.ca/ef/topical-the-earliest-new-testament-manuscripts.htm

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