In this follow-up to Parts 1 and 2, we continue applying Dr. Jay Smith’s rigorous historical-critical method to both Christianity and Islam. The latest video from History Valley features Dr. Jay Smith discussing the work of a French revisionist scholar. This scholar argues that a specific Jewish-Christian group played a major role in the formation of the Quran.
This strengthens the central thesis of my book, Adam, The Blueprint of Creation and The Tree of Life: there is only one original blueprint given to Adam at creation. This code was preserved through the Torah and the Jewish people as the firstborn. Both Christianity and Islam represent later human constructions built upon — or diverging from — that foundational code.
Key Points from the Video
The discussion centers on French revisionist scholarship that builds on the German Inarah School (Lüling, Luxenberg). The French scholar proposes that a particular Jewish-Christian community — likely Ebionite or similar Torah-observant groups — was instrumental in shaping the early Quranic material.
This aligns with what my good friend Avi Lipkin taught me starting in 2005. There are traditions that the Quran was influenced by a Catholic Priest and an Ebionite Rabbi (a follower of Jesus who maintained Jewish practices). The video explores how this group’s liturgical texts, hymns, and monotheistic teachings were later Arabized and reframed into the Islamic narrative.
Dr. Jay Smith connects this to his broader argument. He states the Quran shows heavy dependence on pre-Islamic Christian and Jewish-Christian sources, especially Syriac Aramaic Christian hymns and lectionaries. When read with Syriac grammar and vocabulary in mind, many passages reveal Christian liturgical origins rather than original Arabic revelation.
Applying Jay Smith’s Method Consistently
Jay Smith demands early evidence, independent corroboration, and transparency about textual layers. When we apply this standard:
- Islam: Shows clear signs of borrowing and reworking earlier Christian material (as the French and German scholars demonstrate).
- Christianity: Also shows layers of development. Paul’s letters and the Gospels reflect adaptation in a pagan Roman world. Later doctrines (e.g., at Nicaea) were formalized without the original Jewish keepers of the blueprint.
Both traditions took from the Hebrew source and created new systems. They truly are two sides of the same coin.
Return to the Original Blueprint
Rabbi David Fohrman (A Book Like No Other) shows that the Ten Commandments at Sinai revealed principles already present in Genesis. The Torah speaks to all humanity — to Adam — as in Leviticus 18:5:
“You shall therefore keep My statutes and My rules, by which a man (Adam) shall live.”
Eternal life is promised in Genesis 3:22 by reaching out to the Tree of Life — the original code — not through later intermediaries or replacement systems.
Rabbi Ephraim Palvanov rightly highlights the Noahide laws (derived from Genesis 2:24 and 9:6) as part of the shared universal foundation. However, when traditions overlay new covenants and figures, they move away from the single Tree of Life.
Conclusion
The French revisionist work discussed in the video, combined with Avi Lipkin’s teachings, Jay Smith’s analysis, and the German scholars, reveals the deep interconnections between Christianity and Islam. Both are derivative systems built on earlier material from the Hebrew root.
The call remains: return to the one original blueprint given to Adam and preserved by the Jewish people. As Isaiah 56 promises, the stranger who joins himself to the Lord can fully partake in the Tree of Life.
Rabbi David Fohrman, in his powerful series A Book Like No Other, forces us to face the elephant in the room with three simple but explosive questions that most people never dare to ask: Why are there two trees in the Garden of Eden? What is the purpose of those two trees? And why does the Torah make such a big deal about them?
These are not minor details. They strike at the very heart of the original blueprint given to Adam. If we cannot answer these questions honestly, we have no business claiming to understand the difference between the Tree of Life — the path to eternal life clearly promised in Genesis 3:22 — and the Tree of Knowledge, which led to death. The Torah is screaming at us from the very first pages of creation, yet most of the world has ignored the elephant standing right in front of them. Are you willing to look?
Recommended Resources:
- Jay Smith lectures and collaborations with French/German revisionists
- Avi Lipkin’s teachings on Islam
- Günter Lüling and Christoph Luxenberg’s works
- Rabbi Tovia Singer and Rabbi Ephraim Palvanov’s lectures
- My book, Adam, The Blueprint of Creation and The Tree of Life
This series continues to build the case for returning to the pure original code.
Hazan Gavriel ben David