Schumm Walter R
School of Family Studies and Human Services, Justin Hall 343K, Kansas State University, 1700 Anderson Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66506-1403, USA.
Psychol Rep. 2004 Jun;94(3 Pt 1):894-6. doi: 10.2466/pr0.94.3.894-896.
The relative proportion of reports of events in the life of Jesus versus reports of his teachings are compared across the Qur'an and a sample of the New Testament (Luke 2-21). A much larger number of teachings (74) appear to be mentioned in the New Testament; at the same time, there are more teachings than events (52) reported, while the opposite is true (15 events, 3 teachings) in the Qur'an. The difference is significant statistically (p < .002). More research is needed to assess the sources of such differences.