I've been reading Rook's latest article and subsequently Earl Doherty's The Jesus Puzzle. Very entertaining stuff both. It came to mind while reading them that when the case for a purely mythological Jesus is fully developed and played out, this will provide a killer point against the doctrines of Islam, which considers Jesus as a human prophet who lived on Earth but was not the son of God. When the mountains of evidence begin to be compiled and collected into a corpus of articles and books, presenting a nice concise argument, those Muslims who take evidence seriously (there are some) will be forced to consider that the Quran, Mohammed, and Allah are not 100% infallible. Jesus' ahistoricity is a wedge issue that will help inject doubt into Islam.

I've always considered that one of the best ways to argue against Islam is to show that a humans are fallible, and even if the Quran is infallible, a human's interpretation of it is NOT. So, even if Mohammed was god's greatest prophet and the Quran an accurate record of his sayings, that does not show that the muslim's interpretation of the Quran is infallible. But with a strong case for Jesus being a myth, you have a much stronger wedge than this, namely that the Quran itself is not infallible in the first place.

I'm not a Quran scholar by any means. But does anyone know of particular passages in the Quran or hadith or whatever that claim that Jesus is real? I seem to recall that they claim Jesus is in heaven, that he was a living prophet on Earth, etc. Would be fun to look at some of those verses.

(Yes of course I know most muslims will reject the idea, regardless of evidence. That does not diminish my point.)