a doctrine which has played a significant role in the beliefs of the jews, the christians and the moslems is the issue of the garden of eden and the renowned tree in it (one tree in islam, and two trees in the judaism and christianity, i.e. the tree of life and the tree of knowledge). this essay deals with a comparative study of the forbidden tree in judaism and islam, and for this sake we have...

Abstract Several recent studies on Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho the Jew have argued that should not be read as a witness to state of theological debate between Jews and Christ-followers in second century. Such arguments conclude Justin does engage actual Jewish perspectives, but rather reconstructs hypothetical Judaism from second-hand, polemical sources, or merely uses Trypho’s “Judaism” stan...