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

545 Pages·2019·2.66 MB·English

by  David Bertaina

HeirsoftheApostles
Arabic Christianity:
Texts and Studies
SeriesEditor
AlexanderTreiger(DalhousieUniversity,Canada)
EditorialBoard
DavidBertaina(UniversityofIllinois,Springfield,USA)
ElieDannaoui(UniversityofBalamand,Lebanon)
StephenJ.Davis(YaleUniversity,USA)
John-PaulGhobrial(BalliolCollege,Oxford,UK)
SandraToeniesKeating(ProvidenceCollege,USA)
JohannesPahlitzsch(JohannesGutenberg-Universität,Mainz,Germany)
MarkN.Swanson(LutheranSchoolofTheologyatChicago,USA)
JackTannous(PrincetonUniversity,USA)
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SidneyH.Griffith
Courtesy: The Catholic University of America
Heirs of the Apostles
StudiesonArabicChristianityinHonorof
SidneyH.Griffith
Editedby
DavidBertaina
SandraToeniesKeating
MarkN.Swanson
AlexanderTreiger
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Contents
Preface xi
Abbreviations xiii
NotesonContributors xiv
Part 1
ArabicLanguage,Bible,andQurʾān
1 AnArabicChristianPerspectiveonMonotheismintheQurʾān:Eliasof
Nisibis’Kitābal-Majālis 3
DavidBertaina
2 FromMultiplicitytoUnificationoftheArabicBiblicalText:aReadingof
theRūmOrthodoxProjectsfortheArabizationandPrintingofthe
GospelsduringtheOttomanPeriod 22
ElieDannaoui
3 EarlyChristianArabicTranslationStrategies(Matthew11:20–30in
CodexVat.Ar.13) 37
JuanPedroMonferrer-Sala
4 FlawedBiblicalTranslationsintoArabicandHowtoCorrectThem:a
CoptandaJewStudySaadiah’sTafsīr 56
RonnyVollandt
5 TheUtilityofChristianArabicTextsforQurʾānicStudies 93
ClareWilde
Part 2
ArabicChristianResponsestoIslamandMuslimInterpretations
ofChristianity
6 ApocalypticEcclesiologyinResponsetoEarlyIslam 115
CorneliaB.Horn
viii contents
7 TheRationalityofChristianDoctrine:AbūRāʾiṭaal-Takrītī’s
PhilosophicalResponsetoIslam 157
SandraToeniesKeating
8 TheDoctrineoftheIncarnationinDialoguewithIslam:FourLinesof
Argumentation 179
ThomasW.Ricks
9 MuslimViewsoftheCrossasaSymboloftheChristianFaith 194
ShawqiTalia
10 TheDoctrineoftheTrinityinEarlyIslam:Misperceptionsand
Misrepresentations 214
DavidThomas
Part 3
ArabicChristianityintheMedievalIslamicWorld
11 ByzantineMonasticismandtheHolyLand:PalestineinByzantine
Hagiographyofthe11thand12thCenturies 231
JohannesPahlitzsch
12 Inquiringof“Beelzebub”:Timothyandal-JāḥiẓonChristiansinthe
ʿAbbāsidLegalSystem 256
AndrewPlattandNathanP.Gibson
13 TheChurchandtheMosqueinWisdom’sShade:ontheStoryof
“AlexanderandtheHermitPrince” 284
MarkN.Swanson
14 RevisitingCheikho’sAssessmentofAbūTammām’sChristian
Origins 310
JenniferTobkin
15 PaulofAntioch’sResponsestoaMuslimSheikh 333
AlexanderTreiger
contents ix
Part 4
ManuscriptDiscoveries
16 EvagriusPonticusattheMonasteryoftheSyrians:NewlyDocumented
EvidenceforanArabicReceptionHistory 349
StephenJ.Davis
17 Christian-Muslim-JewishRelationsinPatristicLiterature:theArabic
QuestionsandAnswersofBasilandGregory 395
BarbaraRoggema
18 AFragmentofaChristian-MuslimDisputation“intheStyleofAbū
RāʾiṭaandʿĪsāibnZurʿa”(Gothaar.2882,fols.16r–24v):a
Reassessment 415
HaraldSuermann
19 AGreco-ArabicPalimpsestfromtheSinaiNewFinds:SomePreliminary
Observations 426
JackTannous
20 AnArabicManuscriptoftheVisionsofAnbaShenouda:Editionand
Translation 446
JasonR.Zaborowski
BibliographyofSidneyH.Griffith’sPublications 495
IndexofBiblicalandQurʾānicCitations 518
IndexofNames,Subjects,andTerms 521