{"product_id":"the-contested-origins-of-the-1865-arabic-bible-contributions-to-the-nineteenth-century-nahda-9789004307070","title":"The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible: Contributions to the Nineteenth Century Nahḍa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible provides new evidence for the Bible’s compilation, including the seminal role of Syrian Christians and Muslims. This research also places the project within the wider social-political framework of a transforming Ottoman Empire, where the rise of a literate class in Beirut served as a catalyst for the Arabic literary renaissance (Nahḍa), and within the international field of New Testament textual studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword  List of Illustrations   1 Contested Origins and Contested Contributions  American Missions in the Middle East  The Arabic Bible  Contested Identities within the American Mission  Eli Smith  Buṭrus al-Bustānī  Nāṣīf al-Yāzijī  Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck  Yūsuf al-Asīr   2 The American Syrian Mission: Evangelism, Schools and the Press  Evangelism through Preaching and Bible Distribution  Protestant—Catholic Relations  Establishing Schools  Challenging Arab Syrian Culture 64 The Transformation of Beirut and the Establishment of Printing Presses   3 Debate over the Origins and American Contributions to the Nahḍa  The Nahḍa  Educational Renaissance  Cultural Societies  Literary Renaissance  The Debate over the Role of the Americans in the Nahḍa  George Antonius (1891–1942)  Albert Hourani (1915–1993)  Abdul Latif al-Tibawi (1910–1981)  Yūsuf Nasrallah (1911–1993) and the Oriental Catholic Churches   4 Contributions to Nineteenth Century Biblical Scholarship  The Bible Societies and Publishing Houses  The British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) and the American Bible Society (ABS)  The Search for the Text of the New Testament  Eli Smith and Edward Robinson  Biblical Scholarship of the 1865 Arabic Bible Translation  The textus receptus versus the eclectic text   5 The Text of the 1865 Arabic Bible Translation  The Received Tradition (RT) of the Translation  Primary and Secondary Sources of the so-called Van Dyck  Smith’s Views on Arabic  Choosing the Classical Style  Smith’s Method of Translation  The Death of Smith and the Appointment of Van Dyck  Van Dyck’s Method of Translation  The Correction of the eclectic text  The so-called Van Dyck Manuscripts  “Revised” or “Reviewed”   6 Reception of the Translation  Publication of the Translation  Responses to the so-called Van Dyck  A New Translation?  The Catholic Response  Muslim Responses  A Changing Arabic   7 Overstated, Overlooked, and Undervalued Contributions  Overstated  Overlooked  Undervalued  The so-called Van Dyck  Further Research . . .   Appendix  Bibliography  Index of Subjects and Names 271","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210678821207,"sku":"9789004307070","price":129.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-contested-origins-of-the-1865-arabic-bible-contributions-to-the-nineteenth-century-nahda-9789004307070","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}