Brill Academic Pub, 2018. — 296 p. — (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 14). In The Arabic Life of Antony Attributed to Serapion of Thmuis, Elizabeth Agaiby demonstrates how the redacted Life of Antony, the "Father of all monks and star of the wilderness", gained widespread acceptance within Egypt shortly after its composition in the 13th century and dominated Coptic...
Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2020. — 135 p. This book investigates Arabic’s transformative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, through a new approach. It asks, What would Arabic’s early history look like if we wrote it based on the documentary evidence? The book frames this question through the linguistic investigation of the Damascus...
The University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 160 p. — (Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East 2). The Damascus Psalm Fragment investigates Arabic’s transformative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, through a new approach. It asks, What would Arabic’s early history look like if we wrote it based on the documentary evidence? The book frames...
Digital Bible Society, 2017. — 1895 p. In 1847, the Eli Smith began a literal translation of the Bible into Arabic. When he died, his colleague, Dr. Cornelius Van Dyke, finished it in 1860. The Van Dyke Version Bible has since become the most popular translation of the Bible in the Arabic-speaking world.
Digital Bible Society, 2017. — 1895 p. In 1847, the Eli Smith began a literal translation of the Bible into Arabic. When he died, his colleague, Dr. Cornelius Van Dyke, finished it in 1860. The Van Dyke Version Bible has since become the most popular translation of the Bible in the Arabic-speaking world.
Brill, 2018. — xiv, 216 p. — (The History of Christian-Muslim Relations 35). — ISBN 978-90-04-36069-3. Arab Christians and the Qurʾan from the Origins of Islam to the Medieval Period is a collection of essays on the use and interpretation of the Qur’an by Christians writing in Arabic in the period of Islamic rule in the Middle East up to the end of the thirteenth century. These...
University of St Andrews, 1998. — 401 p. This work makes a contribution to the history of the interpretation of Hebrew scripture by examining the earlier texts, produced by the linguistically cognate communities of Arabic-speaking Jews, Christians, and Muslims, of one of the more theologically controversial and linguistically difficult texts of the Judeo-Christian canon: the...
Brill, 2023. — 434 p. — (Arabic Christianity 5). In the late fourth century, the early Christian monk and author Evagrius Ponticus wrote his magnum opus in Greek--entitled Kephalaia Gnostika ("Gnostic Chapters")--a spiritual treatise on ascetic contemplation and unity with God. After Evagrius' death, however, his theology attracted controversy, and many of his writings were...
Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2017. — 236 p. From the funds of the Vatican library this thesis aims to establish a typology of the Christian-Arabic manuscript of the thirteenth century. The different signs found on the manuscripts are analyzed and put into perspective: the numbering of the quires, the numbering of the bifolium, the foliation, the marks of the middle of...
Brill, 2024. — xxii, 1115 p. — (Arabic Christianity 6/1). When the 13th-century Coptic official al-Makīn Ibn al-ʿAmīd was thrown into prison by Sultan Baybars, he set out to compile a summary of Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and Islamic history for his own consolation. His work, which drew from a vast array of sources, enjoyed enduring success among various readerships: Oriental...
Brill, 2016 — xiv, 275 p. — (The History of Christian-Muslim Relations 26). — ISBN 978-90-04-30707-0. This study examines the history of an Arabic Bible translation of American missionaries in late Ottoman Syria. Comparing the history of this project as recorded by the American missionaries with private correspondence and the manuscripts of the translation, The Contested...
Routledge, 2002. — 345 p. — (Variorum Collected Studies). The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith's previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam. In particular, the author shows how...
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2013. — 272 p. — ISBN 13: 9780691168081 From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these translations remained largely neglected by Biblical scholars and historians. In telling the story of the...
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2013. — 272 p. From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these translations remained largely neglected by Biblical scholars and historians. In telling the story of the Bible in Arabic, this book...
Editors: David Bertaina, Sandra Toenies Keating, Mark N. Swanson, and Alexander Treiger. — Leiden: Brill, 2019. — xviii, 527 p. — (Arabic Christianity 1). 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...
Brill, 2017. — (Biblia Arabica, 5) Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition offers recent findings on the reception, translation and use of the Bible in Arabic among Jews, Samaritans, Christians and Muslims from the early Islamic era to the present day. In this volume, edited by Miriam L. Hjälm, scholars from different fields have joined forces to illuminate various aspects of...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. — xxii, 434 p. — (Biblia Arabica, Volume: 4) In Christian Arabic Versions of Daniel, Miriam L. Hjälm provides an insight into the Arabic transmission of the biblical Book of Daniel. This book offers an inventory and a classification of extant manuscripts as well as a detailed account of the translation techniques employed in the early manuscripts....
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. — (Aethiopistische Forschungen 86). The Martyrium Arethae and His Companions in Naǧrān (BHG 166) is one of the best known and most widespread texts of the Christian Eastern martyrological literature. Written in Greek in the second half of the 6th century, probably from a Syriac model, it was translated into several languages, including Arabic,...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. — 223 p. — (Göttinger Orientforschungen, I. Reihe: Syriaca 59). The theological discourse of Arab Christianity is characterized by a self-evident consideration of religious difference. In the constant cultural and religious exchange a specific Christian identity developed, which is not conceivable without Islamic influences and challenges. When...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. — 271 p. — (Göttinger Orientforschungen I. Reihe: Syriaca 53). Theodor Abū Qurrah, melkitischer Theologe und Bischof der mesopotamischen Stadt Harran, lebte zu Beginn der Abbasiden-Herrschaft und gilt als der früheste christlich-arabische Theologe. Sein Traktat über die Bilderverehrung ist der einzige seiner Art in arabischer Sprache in der Zeit der...
Northern Illinois University Press, 2014. — 385 p. Arabic was among the first languages in which the Gospel was preached. The Book of Acts mentions Arabs as being present at the first Pentecost in Jerusalem, where they heard the Christian message in their native tongue. Christian literature in Arabic is at least 1,300 years old, the oldest surviving texts dating from the 8th...
Publisher: Malta 1992 (Melita Theologica Supplementary Series, No. 2)
Publication date: 1992
Number of pages: 343
This is the second lecture in the Ġuże Galea Lecture series, founded by Chev. Prof Ġuże Galea in 1972 with the aim of promoting scientific Maltese studies. It is hoped that others will follow his example in encouraging such a culturally important activity.
The...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. — xii, 550 p. — (Biblia Arabica, Volume: 6) Cet ouvrage ouvre une fenêtre sur la transmission des lettres de Paul en arabe. Il s’interroge sur le manque d’intérêt depuis le début du 20ème siècle pour les manuscrits arabes du Nouveau Testament et apporte une contribution à la récente reprise scientifique de ce champ, en étudiant le corpus largement...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. — 269 p. — (Göttinger Orientforschungen, I. Reihe: Syriaca 60). Überleben, Pilgern, Begegnen im orientalischen Christentum erschließt wichtige Aspekte christlicher Existenz im Orient. Das ‚Überleben‘ erörtern die Beiträge von Beinhauer-Köhler (Kairo als Fluchtort), Martirosyan (die Geschichte eines Überlebenden des Völkermords an den Armeniern),...
LIT Verlag, 2020. — 281 p. — ISBN 8973-4543-65-678 This volume is a collection of papers highlighting recent researches on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. The topics range from artifacts to texts and their historical contexts, covering the period from the 7th to the 18th century. As the studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia advance, focus has...
Lit, 2016. — 443 p. — ISBN 8973-4543-65-678 As early as AD 781, the writer of the Xi'an Fu inscription described the spread of Syriac Christianity (called Jingjiao in Chinese) to China as a wind blowing eastward. The discovery of the Xi'an Fu Stele, the Dunhuang Jingjiao Manuscripts, the numerous Syriac tombstones and fragments in Central Asia and many parts of China has...
Brill, 2001. — 274 p. This volume contains papers from the Third Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium on Arab Christianity and Islam (September 1998) on the theme of "Arab Christianity in Bilâd al-Shâm (Greater Syria) in the pre-Ottoman Period". It presents aspects of Syrian Christian life and thought during the first millennium of Islamic rule. Among the eight contributing scholars...
Brill, 2006 — 422 p. — (The History of Christian-Muslim Relations 6). — ISBN 978-90-47-41170-3. The contributions to this volume, which come from the Fifth Mingana Symposium, survey the use of the Bible and attitudes towards it in the early and classical Islamic periods. The authors explore such themes as early Christian translations of the Bible into Arabic, the use of verses...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. — 206 p. — (Göttinger Orientforschungen, I. Reihe: Syriaca 69). Die Entstehung und rasche Ausbreitung des Islam war zweifellos eines der wichtigsten Ereignisse des 7. Jahrhunderts und sollte die politische, kulturelle und religiöse Geschichte eines großen Teils der Welt für immer prägen. Von Anfang an traten die Muslime mit der Bevölkerung der...
Brill, 2024. — 417 p. — (New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents 66). Codex Sinaiticus Arabicus preserves a translation of the Gospels from Greek into Arabic that differs markedly from the Majority Text. This study uses phylogenetics and other digital methods explore the history and significance of this important version. Arabic versions of the New Testament have been...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. — 232 p. — (Göttinger Orientforschungen. I. Reihe: Syriaca 71). The Council of Chalcedon and the Syriac Orthodox Church traces the history of the anti-Chalcedonian movement until the advent of Islam. The Council of Chalcedon (451) caused a major schism in Eastern Christianity, which has not yet been healed, although the efforts for...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. — 161 p. — (Göttinger Orientforschungen, I. Reihe: Syriaca 62). The present study is an overview of the general development of the Syriac liturgical traditions until the end of the 13th century. It traces some of the aspects of the encounter between Syriac Christianity and its surrounding cultural milieu. Literary genres and styles from the Early...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. — xviii, 330 p. — (Biblia Arabica, Volume: 2). This work offers a seminal research into Arabic translations of the Pentateuch. It is no exaggeration to speak of this field as a terra incognita. Biblical versions in Arabic were produced over many centuries, on the basis of a wide range of source languages (Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, or Coptic), and in...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. — xiv, 670 p. — (Biblia Arabica, Volume: 1). This volume presents a critical edition of the Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Esther by Saadia Gaon (882–942). This edition, accompanied by an introduction and extensively annotated English translation, affords access to the first-known personalized, rationalistic Jewish...
Koninklijke Brill, 2022. — 697 p. — (Biblia Arabica 8). In this study, Vevian Zaki places the Arabic versions of the Pauline Epistles in their historical context, exploring when, where, and how they were produced, transmitted, understood, and adapted among Eastern Christian communities across the centuries. She also considers the transmission and use of these texts among Muslim...
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