Invalidation of the Jewish Accounts on the Children of Israel Through Quranic Evidences

Abstract

This paper proposes a quasi-acceptable theoretical interpretation of the historically controversial Children of Israel’s origins, chronicles, legacies, and prophesies. The Children of Israel have been referred to by God and in indirect verses in Islamic, Jewish, and Christian scriptures, where they have been misled, saved, and favored. Jewish chronicles and accounts, therefore, have affected mainstream and generic interpretations, exegeses, revelations, biographies, prophetic traditions, and commentaries among Muslim interpreters, clergy, sociologists. These accounts were once so dominant that they outweighed the geographical, historical, linguistic, sociopolitical, and religious premises of orthodox Muslim interpretations of the Quran. Inspired by plain Quranic interpretations and dominant scriptures, most Muslim historio-religious, epistemological, and scriptural interpretations of the Children of Israel’s origins, thus, have posited that those tribes are the Jews themselves. Having been identified as Jews, the Children of Israel, accordingly, have taken a considerable status in Muslim religious and scriptural interpretations.