Heirs of the Apostles : Studies on Arabic Christianity in Honor of Sidney H. Griffith /

Heirs of the Apostles : Studies on Arabic Christianity in Honor of Sidney H. Griffith /

Heirs of the Apostles offers a panoramic survey of Arabic-speaking Christians-descendants of the Christian communities established in the Middle East by the apostles-and their history, religion, and culture in the early Islamic and medieval periods. The subjects range from Arabic translations of the...

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Other Authors: Bertaina, David (Editor), Keating, Sandra Toenies (Editor), Swanson, Mark (Editor), Treiger, Alexander (Editor), Griffith, Sidney Harrison (honouree.)

Format: eBook

Language: English
Arabic

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Series: Arabic Christianity 1.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

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Christianity > Arab countries.
Christianity and culture > Arab countries.
Arabic literature > Christian authors > History and criticism.
Arab countries > Church history.

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Call Number: BR1067.A7 H45 2019

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Arabic Language, Bible, and Qurʾān
  • An Arabic Christian Perspective on Monotheism in the Qurʾān: Elias of Nisibis' Kitāb al-Majālis /
  • David Bertaina
  • From Multiplicity to Unification of the Arabic Biblical Text: a Reading of the Rūm Orthodox Projects for the Arabization and Printing of the Gospels during the Ottoman Period /
  • Elie Dannaoui
  • Early Christian Arabic Translation Strategies (Matthew 11:20-30 in Codex Vat. Ar. 13) /
  • Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
  • Flawed Biblical Translations into Arabic and How to Correct Them: a Copt and a Jew Study Saadiah's Tafsīr /
  • Ronny Vollandt
  • The Utility of Christian Arabic Texts for Qurʾānic Studies /
  • Clare Wilde
  • Arabic Christian Responses to Islam and Muslim Interpretations of Christianity
  • Apocalyptic Ecclesiology in Response to Early Islam /
  • Cornelia B. Horn
  • The Rationality of Christian Doctrine: Abū Rāʾiṭa al-Takrītī's Philosophical Response to Islam /
  • Sandra Toenies Keating
  • The Doctrine of the Incarnation in Dialogue with Islam: Four Lines of Argumentation /
  • Thomas W. Ricks
  • Muslim Views of the Cross as a Symbol of the Christian Faith /
  • Shawqi Talia
  • The Doctrine of the Trinity in Early Islam: Misperceptions and Misrepresentations /
  • David Thomas
  • Arabic Christianity in the Medieval Islamic World
  • Byzantine Monasticism and the Holy Land: Palestine in Byzantine Hagiography of the 11th and 12th Centuries /
  • Johannes Pahlitzsch
  • Inquiring of "Beelzebub": Timothy and al-Jāḥiẓ on Christians in the ʿAbbāsid Legal System /
  • Andrew Platt and Nathan P. Gibson
  • The Church and the Mosque in Wisdom's Shade: on the Story of "Alexander and the Hermit Prince" /
  • Mark N. Swanson
  • Revisiting Cheikho's Assessment of Abū Tammām's Christian Origins /
  • Jennifer Tobkin
  • Paul of Antioch's Responses to a Muslim Sheikh /
  • Alexander Treiger
  • Manuscript Discoveries
  • Evagrius Ponticus at the Monastery of the Syrians: Newly Documented Evidence for an Arabic Reception History /
  • Stephen J. Davis
  • Christian-Muslim-Jewish Relations in Patristic Literature: the Arabic Questions and Answers of Basil and Gregory /
  • Barbara Roggema
  • A Fragment of a Christian-Muslim Disputation "in the Style of Abū Rāʾiṭa and ʿĪsā ibn Zurʿa" (Gotha ar. 2882, fols. 16r-24v): a Reassessment /
  • Harald Suermann
  • A Greco-Arabic Palimpsest from the Sinai New Finds: Some Preliminary Observations /
  • Jack Tannous
  • An Arabic Manuscript of the Visions of Anba Shenouda: Edition and Translation /
  • Jason R. Zaborowski
  • Bibliography of Sidney H. Griffith's Publications.