Problems of Chronology in Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet of Wisdom
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World Order 13, 24-39Abstract: Bahá'u'lláh, in his Lawh-i-Hikmat, calls certain prophets and Greek philosophers contemporaries. Cole investigates the possibilities, and concludes that Bahá'u'lláh was using histories and chronologies that people at the time knew, but that he may well not have been indiv\cating that such contemporaneity should be taken literally.
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Bahá'u'lláh, in his Lawh-i-Hikmat, calls certain prophets and Greek philosophers contemporaries. Cole investigates the possibilities, and concludes that Bahá'u'lláh was using histories and chronologies that people at the time knew, but that he may well not have been indiv\cating that such contemporaneity should be taken literally.