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               miracle  of  the  Quran,  for             1.  Distortion in the Old
               which it has been challenged,                Testament
               is  correct  as  long  as  it         The  Old  Testament  is  a
               preserves  its  totality  and         collection  of  39  books,  which

               integrity. (Ma'refat, 2002: 116)      are thematically divided into the
                  The result is that, given the      following three sections:
               current eloquence and rhetoric            •  Historical        section:
               and  the  novel  order  of  the              Contains  17  books,  the
               Holy Quran, the possibility of               first  five  of  which  are
               any  distortion  is  ruled  out;             called  the  Torah  or

               because  in  this  case,  it  loses          Pentateuch.
               its  rhetorical  and  verbal              •  Wisdom,  Prayers  and
               miracle,  which  has  always                 Poetry Section: Contains 5
               been  considered  by  Muslim                 books.
               scholars. (Ma'refat, 2002: 450-453)       •  The section of the prophecies

                                                            of the prophets: includes 17
               Distortion in the Testaments                 books. (Tawfiqi, 2019: 50)
               Before examining, in order to
               be  better  acquainted  with  the        The history of writing these
               Old and New Testaments,  it  is       works  dates  back  to  the  tenth
               necessary  to  refer  to  an          century  to  the  end  of  the

               analytical  explanation  of  the      second century BC, which was
               Testaments;  because  what  is        almost  five  centuries  after  the
               available are books that were         death  of  Prophet  Moses.
               written  in  later  times  and        (Ma'refat, 2007: 382)
               some  of  the  teachings  of  the        Accordingly,      the     Old

               prophets  are  included  in  its      Testament  collection  has  been
               contents. (Ibid: 351)                 written  over  nine  centuries
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