The Challenge of the Conflict between the Torah Background of the Quran Stories and the Verses Context

In the course of understanding the Holy Quran stories, sometimes there are two possible meanings; one of them can be reinforced by the historical background of the story in the Torah and the other by the context of the Quran verses. In such cases, there is a challenge regarding the preference of one of these two indications over the other. Some examples of this problem can be seen in the stories of "the fratricide of Adam's son," "laughing of Abraham's wife," the nakedness of Adam and Eve," "sale of Joseph", and "the nine-hundred-and-fifty-year mission of Noah". So, in this study, these five stories were analyzed. The findings suggest that no fixed solution can be suggested for overcoming the difficulty of the conflict between the Torah background and the context of the Quran verses, and in each case, the final judgment varies according to several factors. In other words, there are factors such as "the strength and weakness of the context'', "effectiveness or ineffectiveness of adducing from the Torah", and "the presence or absence of an indication for ignoring the context or the Torah background" that affect the judgment.