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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3298639, member: 82322&quot;]The Koran tells the story of Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers.&nbsp; (Not Jesus&#039; step-dad Joseph, the other Joseph son of Jacob and Rachel who had the coat of many colors).&nbsp; I know the Bible version, the Koran version is discussed at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_in_Islam#God's_plan_to_save_Joseph" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_in_Islam#God's_plan_to_save_Joseph" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_in_Islam#God's_plan_to_save_Joseph</a></p><p><br /></p><p>One verse is &quot;The (Brethren) sold him for a miserable price, for a few <b>dirhams</b> counted out: in such low estimation did they hold him!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The Koran uses the word <i>dirham</i>.&nbsp; One hopes that is the original and that it wasn&#039;t &quot;improved&quot; by copyists the original version Mohammad told during his life.&nbsp; (In the similar story in the Bible the word &quot;shekel&quot; is used, which at the time of Joseph was a weight, not a coin.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Some have claimed the Koran was modified at a later date with the word &quot;dirham&quot;.&nbsp; I found a long religious argument at <a href="https://www.islamic-awareness.org/quran/contrad/external/dirham" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.islamic-awareness.org/quran/contrad/external/dirham" rel="nofollow">https://www.islamic-awareness.org/quran/contrad/external/dirham</a> discussing the issue.&nbsp; The author claims pre-Islamic poetry by ʿAntara has the line &quot;The first pure showers of every rain-cloud rained upon it, and left every puddle in it like a <b>dirham</b><i>.</i>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect the poem by ʿAntara isn&#039;t great evidence, because it also could have been substituted by copyists.&nbsp; So I&#039;m left with two textual citations, but neither contemporary enough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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