Ahmad al-Jallad, "Echoes of Deuteronomy 6:5 in two Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions (Paleo-Arabic) from Northwest Arabia"
This contribution proposes that two Paleo-Arabic inscriptions from Northwest Arabia contain a rough rendering of Deuteronomy 6:5 (via Matthew 22:37/Luke 10:27), providing evidence for contact with Christianity in Arabia Deserta in the first century BH (before the Hiǧrah), awareness of the Bible, and indeed an effort to translate it idiomatically into the vernacular.
Read the entire article in pre-print here. This Arabic rendering of the "greatest commandment" seems to give some small hint of how Arabs were being evangelized in their own language immediately before Islam..
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