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Mormon Scriptures Guided Lecture Notes

Introduction to Mormonism

1. What is the actual name of the Mormon Church?
2. Why is there some debate among Mormons and other Christians about whether the LDS faith is another denomination of Christianity or a new religion?
3. What are some core similarities between the LDS Church and other forms of Christianity?
4. What are some differences between the LDS Church and other forms of Christianity?
5. Who founded the LDS Church?
6. How did the Mormon religion begin?
7. What happened to Joseph Smith?
8. Where did the Church move to after leaving New York state?
9. How many members of the Mormon Church are there today?

Introduction to Mormon Scriptures

1. What are the four sacred texts of the LDS Church? And what does each contain?

The Origin of the Book of Mormon

1. What happened on September 21, 1823?
2. What did Joseph Smith start doing in 1827 and why?
3. What was the translation process like?
4. What happened to the first 116 pages of the translated text?
5. Why was the Book of Mormon finally able to be completed in 1830?
6. What happened to the plates that Smith was translating from?
7. What are the affidavits by the 3 and 8?

Contents of the Book of Mormon

1. When and where does the Book of Mormon begin? What happens at the beginning of the text?
2. Who is Lehi and what does God tell him to do?
3. Who is Nephi? What does God continue to tell Lehi and Nephi?
4. What story does the Book of Mormon tell about Jesus?
5. What does the Book of Mormon say about the two rival families/clans and how it relates to the prophecies from God?
6. Who wrote down the Book of Mormon?

Muslim Scriptures Guided Lecture Notes

Introduction to Islam

1. Who was Muhammad and what happened to him, beginning in 610?
2. How did the religion of Islam begin?
3. What is the hijra?
4. Why did the Muslim community return to Mecca in 630 CE?
5. What do Muslims believe about God?
6. What is the role of prophets in Islam?
7. How is Islam connected to Judaism and Christianity?
8. What does the word Islam mean?
9. How does it relate to how Muslims are supposed to live their lives?

Introduction to Muslim Scriptures

1. What is the sacred text of Islam?
2. What is recorded in the Quran?
3. Who do Muslims believe to be the author of the Quran?
4. What language does the Quran have to be in to be considered the real Quran?
5. What is the relationship of the texts of the Quran to earlier sacred texts?
6. What is Hadith?
7. How many Hadiths are there?

Collection and Canonization of the Quran

1. For how long did Muhammad receive revelations?
2. How were the revelations safeguarded during Muhammads life?
3. How were the revelations safeguarded after Muhammads death?
4. Why was the Battle of Yamama in 633CE important for the canonization of the Quran?
5. What was the role of Caliph Uthman in the canonization of the Quran?

Structure and Content of the Quran

1. What are the individual sections of the Quran called?
2. How many of them are there in the Quran?
3. How are the Surahs ordered?
4. What are the Meccan Surahs and Medinan Surahs?
5. What does each Surah address?
6. What are some major themes and categories of the content of the Quran? (list 5)

The Muqattaat

1. What are the muqattaat?
2. How many surahs have them?
3. What do they mean?
4. Why is their meaning unknown?

Quran = Recitations

1. Is the Quran written in prose or poetry?
2. Why is this poetic nature important for Muslims?
3. What is the Quranic Challenge?
4. Why did some of the first Muslims convert to Islam?
5. What does it mean that the Quran is primarily an aural text?
6. What did the Quranic recitation sound like?

Hadith

• What is the sunnah?
• Why is Muhammad sometimes called the living Quran?
• How and when were the hadiths compiled and written down?
• What is an isnad?
• What is a matn?
• What are the categories or sahih, hasan and daif?
• How many Hadiths are there?
• Do all Muslims agree on which hadiths are authoritative?
• Which Hadiths do Sunni Muslims tend to see as authoritative?
• Which hadiths do Shia Muslims tend to see as authoritative?
• Who are the Quranists and what do they think of the Hadith?

How Hadith is Used in Islam

1. How are the hadiths used in Islam?
2. How does the Hadith help interpret the Quranic verse on modesty?
3. What is Shariah law and how is used hadith used in the shaping of Shariah law?

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