seem good to you, two, three, four,” and, “And those [wives] you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.”2 But the Quran does not take those instructions into greater light the way the Bible advances beyond the law of Moses. The structure of the Quran is such that having ruled in favor of polygamy and wife beating, there it stands, unresolved. Jesus reads the Old Testament in such a way as to restore a message lost from the glorious beginning, something obscured