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تَحْرِيفًا لَفْظِيًّا أَوْ تَحْرِيفًا مَعْنَوِيًّا
Verbal alteration or interpretive alteration.

Verbal alteration concerns a change in the text, its transmission, or wording at the level of a rendering. A disagreement about what a shared passage means is not by itself proof of verbal alteration; it is an interpretive disagreement.

This discussion specifically locates its proposed examples of verbal alteration in certain translations and analogous renderings rather than making an unrestricted claim here about the wording of the original Torah. That scope matters: a particular historical argument should not silently be expanded into a conclusion about every manuscript.

Ask whether the dispute concerns what the words are or what those words mean. The first calls for textual evidence; the second calls for interpretation in context.

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Verbal alteration concerns the transmitted words

Qur’anic Argumentation: Debates with Jewish Interlocutors and Principles of Reform

تَحْرِيفًا لَفْظِيًّا أَوْ تَحْرِيفًا مَعْنَوِيًّا
Verbal alteration or interpretive alteration.

Verbal alteration concerns a change in the text, its transmission, or wording at the level of a rendering. A disagreement about what a shared passage means is not by itself proof of verbal alteration; it is an interpretive disagreement.

This discussion specifically locates its proposed examples of verbal alteration in certain translations and analogous renderings rather than making an unrestricted claim here about the wording of the original Torah. That scope matters: a particular historical argument should not silently be expanded into a conclusion about every manuscript.

Ask whether the dispute concerns what the words are or what those words mean. The first calls for textual evidence; the second calls for interpretation in context.