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*7:162. But the transgressors among them changed the word from that which had been given them so we sent on them a plague from heaven. For that they repeatedly transgressed.
According to some scholars on the field of [[Middle East studies]], Muhammed's attachment to the Bible was doubtless born of a desire to give legitimacy to his own message, to stress the affinity of [[Islam]] to the two better established and more widely accepted monotheistic faiths, and most specifically to [[Judaism]]
The "religion of Abraham" motif served that end, as did the Qur'an extensive citation of biblical material and Muhammed's acceptance of Jews as "People of the Book". But if that was Muhammed's intent, the situation was quite different for later Muslims. Their problem was to separate and distinguish temselves from those other two groups, to disengage themselves, so to spreak, from their prophetically bestowed biblical heritage. {{ref|2}}
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