I needed to sort out the mess in my Timeline. To that end, I've tightened the 21>52 link in "Fire from the Mountain" and the 52>44 in "New Plague". And I've a new link for sura 40 in "Reformer from Pharaoh's Family": 52>40.
The real problem I've had is with suwar 16, 29, 43. I messed up - I'd trusted the Muslims. Specifically, I'd followed the 'Abbâsid clowns who'd proposed 43 >16 >29, as you may read in Shahrastani, therefore Jeffery. And since (they told me) sura 29 is late, I felt free to pose sura 29 as a reaction to sura 9 in "Against the Jihad".
But it was striking me how much a "late" sura didn't know. Sura 29's Abraham / Lot story doesn't parallel (for instance) sura 51, beyond what either has from 7, 11, 15. And the links to suras-9-plus have dissolved into links to sura 7 or 39.
That's what my 16>29 links were doing here, they had to be here on my 16>9>29 assumption. And then... a 29/43 link bugging me since the 2000s - never posted here - was starting to look like 29>43. But 16 used 43! I'd got at least three essays into an endless loop.
Well, no more of that. "Against the Jihad" is overhauled. It still argues sura 29 belongs after sura 21. But now that it's lost the suras 9 and 16 references, it's having to be tentative about 23, 35, 42, 44, and 46 also. Meanwhile, "Plots Against The Qurra" now argues for sura 16's direct use of sura 29. And "Defending Jesus" owns that sura 43 used sura 29.
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