Saya fwd tulisan ini bagi yang mau mengikuti hasil kajian
muttakhir tentang al-Mushaf yang asalnya, menurut istilah
Luxenberg, adalah semacam bentuk dari Bible yang kemudian
ditambah - menurut istilah saya - oleh ajaran absurd, biadab, kejm
lagi keji oleh orang Arab. (Ur-Koran menurut istilah L�ling)
Menggegerkan memang.
Tentu saja hasil penelitian Luxenberg (dan L�ling) itu masih
perlu kritik, penyempurnaan atau bantahan dari scholars yang
lain.
Yang perlu dicatat adalah bahwa hingga sekarang, hampir lima
tahun setelah edisi pertama buku Luxenberg keluar, tidak ada
kritik yang betul-betul meruntuhkan hasil kajian itu.
Sebaliknya malah.
Saya telah fwded beberapa diantara resensi buku Luxenberg dan
L�ling di (berbagai) mailing list ini dan dengan mudah bisa
ditemukan kembali di internet dengan memakai google atau search
engin yang lain dengan kata kunci Luxenberg, 72, Koran aramaic..
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Christoph Heger:
A Note on the "Huris"
The � in times of worldwide actions of an Islamic terrorism for
obvious reasons � most famous example of a new understanding of
Koranic passages in Christoph Luxenberg, Die syro-aram�ische
Lesart des Koran. Ein Beitrag zur Entschl�sselung der Koransprache
[The Syro- Aramaic Reading of the Koran. A Contribution to
Decyphering the Language of the Koran], Berlin 12000 and 22004,
concerns the "Huris", those ever-virgin playmates who shall be
given to the Islamic warriors in Paradise. With Luxenberg they
become � again � the "white, juwel-like raisins", we know as fruit
of the Paradise from Ephrem Syrus' poem "The Paradise (De
Paradiso)".
Dr. Andrea Barbara Schmidt, professor of Syriac literatur at
Universit� Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium,
pointed me to the following interesting detail:
The metaphor of refreshing the dead souls in the celestial realm
by the old-testament fathers is well-known in the
Christian-eastern and Byzantine literature. Numerous places giving
evidence for it can be found with Ephrem Syrus, the famous poet
and ecclesiastical writer in the Syriac, i.e. the
Christian-Aramaic language. But most important of all is a picture
that appears in the oldest transmitted Christian prayer for the
dead of the 3rd century, which was delivered by the Copts, the
Syriacs, Armenians and Greeks. Here they prayed for the admission
of the souls in the celestial realm and their refreshing, calming
and renewal in the eternal life.
A fascinating transformation of this idea into the iconography is
shown in a Syrian mural picture, in 1998 uncovered by Dr. Karel
Innem�e, Leiden, The Netherlands, in the Syrian monastery Dair al-
Suryan in the Wadi Natrun in Egypt, dated approx. to the 8th
century. Here the three Patriarchs Abraham, Isaak and Jakob are
shown holding in their lap the souls of men, which they nourish
with sweet raisins (!). They actually plug the grapes into their
mouth!
Here exists a quite concrete connection between philology and the
picturesque views of the Paradise in late antiquity times, as they
now have been established by Christoph Luxenberg also for the
Koran. Dair al-Suryan, too, lies in the desert, and cooled raisins
must have been considered as the highest of celestial pleasures.
For further information I refer to K. Innem�e, P. Grossmann,
K.D. Jenner, L. van Rompay, New Discoveries in the al-`Adra
Church of Dair al-Suryan in the Wadi Natrun, in: Mitteilungen zur
christlichen Arch�ologie 4 (1998), p. 79-103.
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