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[132] Cf. Nöldeke and Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, pp. 8 f.
[133] Cf. The Protevangelion; Appendix D, p. 370.
[134] See n. 92, above.
[135] Cf. The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, where "Jesus" is in the place of
"Mary's Lord"; Appendix D, p. 370.
[136] Cf. Pseudo-Matthew; Appendix D, p. 371.
[137] Later Christian polemicists had a field day with this discrepancy;
ECMD, pp. x, 83, 139. See Appendix D, p. 371.
[138] Muslim commentators have been quite industrious in their search for
possible explanations for these passages; Sahih Muslim, vol. 3, p. 1169;
Tabari, History, vol. 4, p. 120; Abdelmajid Charfi, "Christianity in the
Qur'an Commentary of Tabari," Islamochristiana, 6 (1980), pp. 111-113,
Suyuti, El-Itkan, vol. 2, pp. 366, 503.
[139] Cf. The Arabic Infancy Gospel; Appendix D, p. 371.
[140] See n. 130, above.
[141] Horovitz, Untersuchungen, p. 129 f; Jeffery, Vocabulary, pp. 265 f;
Andrae, Mohammed, p. 25.
[142] See Appendix D, p. 371.
[143] SEI, p. 640; see Appendix D, p. 372.
[144] See Bell, Origins, p. 129, who made this observation with respect to
Qur'an 6:84f; cf. Horovitz, Untersuchungen, p. 91.