Heirs of the Apostles

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36758-6
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

Reihe: Arabic Christianity

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 Bible, to the status of Christians in the Muslim-governed lands, Muslim-Christian polemic, and Christian-Muslim and Christian-Jewish relations. The volume is offered as a Festschrift to Sidney H. Griffith, the doyen of Christian Arabic Studies in North America, on his eightieth birthday.


Contributors are: David Bertaina, Elie Dannaoui, Stephen Davis, Nathan P. Gibson, Cornelia Horn, Sandra Toenies Keating, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Andrew Platt, Thomas W. Ricks, Barbara Roggema, Harald Suermann, Mark N. Swanson, Shawqi Talia, Jack Tannous, David Thomas, Jennifer Tobkin, Alexander Treiger, Ronny Vollandt, Clare Wilde, and Jason Zaborowski.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertaina, David

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bertaina, David

Keating, Sandra Toenies

Swanson, Mark N.

Treiger, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography of Sidney H. Griffith’s Publications
Part 1 Arabic Language, Bible, and Qur?an

An Arabic Christian Perspective on Monotheism in the Qur?an: Elias of Nisibis’ Kitab al-Majalis
David Bertaina

From Multiplicity to Unification of the Arabic Biblical Text: a Reading of the Rum 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 Tafsir
Ronny Vollandt

The Utility of Christian Arabic Texts for Qur?anic Studies
Clare Wilde

Part 2 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: Abu Ra?i?a al-Takriti’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

Part 3 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-Ja?i? on Christians in the ?Abbasid 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 Swanson

Revisiting Cheikho’s Assessment of Abu Tammam’s Christian Origins
Jennifer Tobkin

Paul of Antioch’s Responses to a Muslim Sheikh
Alexander Treiger

Part 4 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 Abu Ra?i?a and ?Isa ibn Zur?a” (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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Bertaina, Ph.D. (2007), Catholic University of America, is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield. His teaching expertise is on Late Antiquity and the Medieval Middle East and his research focuses on the history of Christian-Muslim encounters.


Sandra Keating, Ph.D. (2001), Catholic University of America, is Associate Professor at Providence College. She is the author of Defending the ‘People of Truth’ in the Early Islamic Period: The Christian Apologies of Abu Ra’itah (Brill 2006).


Mark N. Swanson, Doctor in Arabic and Islamic Studies (1992), PISAI, Rome, is professor of Christian-Muslim Studies and Interfaith Relations at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. His publications include The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt (AUC Press 2010).


Alexander Treiger, Ph.D. (2008), Yale University, is Associate Professor at Dalhousie University. He is editor of the series Arabic Christianity: Texts and Studies (Brill) and co-editor of The Orthodox Church in the Arab World (700-1700): An Anthology of Sources (2014).