Muhammad: Break with the Jews[264] Zayd b. Thabit was said to have been the scribe at the time; Sahih
Bukhari, vol. 6, pp. 94 f.
[265] Geiger, WMJA, p. 86, cites Berakhot 4, 4; cf. Nöldeke and
Schwally, GQ, vol. 1, p. 202, n. 1.
[266] Such a verse may have played a role in the attempts of later Islamic
theologians to absolve Muhammad from the sin of ever having been an
idolater. See pp. 26 and 28, above.
[267] This could refer to Qur'an 19:28f (cf. SEI, p. 329) or perhaps to
references to Mary in the Talmud (Rudolph, Koran, p. 115, n. 71).
[268] Cf. Sanhedrin 43a.
[269] See Appendix D, p. 389.
[270] See p. 160, n. 240.
[271] See n. 220, above.
[272] See Appendix D, p. 389.
[273] See Appendix D, p. 389.
[274] Jeffery, Vocabulary, pp. 116 f (hub = "defeated, guilty"), 99 f (jibt =
"new god").
[275] See Appendix F, pp. 415 f.
[276] Cf. Qur'an 67:3; Geiger, WMJA, pp. 63 f.
[277] See p. 147.