title: Relative proportion of ethical teaching versus historical events concerning Jesus in early Islamic and Christian historical documents.
abstract: The relative proportion of reports of events in the life of Jesus versus reports of his teachings are compared across the Qur'an and a sample of the New Testament (Luke 2-21). A much larger number of teachings (74) appear to be mentioned in the New Testament; at the same time, there are more teachings than events (52) reported, while the opposite is true (15 events, 3 teachings) in the Qur'an. The difference is significant statistically (p < .002). More research is needed to assess the sources of such differences.
authors.affiliation: School of Family Studies and Human Services, Justin Hall 343K, Kansas State University, 1700 Anderson Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66506-1403, USA. Schumm@humec.ksu.edu
authors.forename: Walter R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Schumm
mesh_terms: D001633:Bible; D002835:Christianity / Q000266:history*; D004989:Ethics / Q000266:history*; D005197:Famous Persons; D049690:History, Ancient; D007514:Islam / Q000266:history*; D013663:Teaching