{"product_id":"heirs-of-the-apostles-studies-on-arabic-christianity-in-honor-of-sidney-h-griffith-9789004367586","title":"Heirs of the Apostles: Studies on Arabic Christianity in Honor of Sidney H. Griffith","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeirs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Bibliography of Sidney H. Griffith’s Publications Part 1 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   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: 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   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-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 Swanson   Revisiting Cheikho’s Assessment of Abū Tammām’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 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   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210751304023,"sku":"9789004367586","price":156.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heirs-of-the-apostles-studies-on-arabic-christianity-in-honor-of-sidney-h-griffith-9789004367586","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}