The Bible in Arab Christianity / / edited by David Thomas.

• Author: Mingana Symposium on Arabic Christianity and Islam
• TeilnehmendeR: Thomas, David 1948-; Mingana Symposium on Arabic Christianity and Islam
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2007.
• Julkaisuvuosi: 2007
• Kieli: English
• Sarja: The history of Christian-Muslim relations ; v. 6; The History of Christian-Muslim Relations 6.
• Ulkoasu: 1 online resource (427 p.)
• Huomautukset: Description based upon print version of record.

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 from it to defen...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Materials / D.R. Thomas
• Introduction / D.R. Thomas
• The Arabic Versions Of The Gospels: A Case Study Of John 1.1 And 1.18 / Hikmat Kachouh
• Bible Et Liturgie Chez Les Arabes Chrétiens (Vie–Ixe Siècle) / Samir Arbache
• Anti-Jewish Polemic And Early Islam / Shaun O’Sullivan
• The Use Of Biblical Quotations In Christian Apocalyptic Writings Of The Umayyad Period / Harald Suermann
• Beyond Prooftexting (2): The Use Of The Bible In Some Early Arabic Christian Apologies / Mark Swanson
• The Re-Written Bible In Arabic: The Paradise Story And Its Exegesis In The Arabic Apocalypse Of Peter / Emmanouela Grypeou
• Biblical Exegesis And Interreligious Polemics In The Arabic Apocalypse Of Peter—The Book Of The Rolls / Barbara Roggema
• The Development Of Testimony Collections In Early Christian Apologetics With Islam / David Bertaina
• The Bible And The Kalām
• The Qur’Anic Sarah As Prototype Of Mary / Gabriel Said Reynolds
• Early Muslim Accusations of Taḥrīf:Muqātil Ibn Sulaymān’s Commentary On Key Qur’anic Verses / Gordon Nickel
• Is There Room For Corruption In The ‘Books’ Of God? / Clare Wilde
• ‘Ammār al-Basrī on the alleged corruption of the gospels / Mark Beaumont
• The Use And Translation Of Scripture In The Apologetic Writings Of Abū Rā’iṭa Al-Takrītī / Sandra Keating
• Al-Radd Al-Jamīl: Al-Ghazālīs Or Pseudo-Ghazālī’s? / Maha El-Kaisy Friemuth
• Ḥanbalite Commentary On The Bible: Analysis Of Najm Al-Dīn Al-Ṭūfī’s (D. 716/1316) Al-Ta’līq / Lejla Demiri
• Illustrating The Gospels In Arabic: Byzantine And Arab Christian Miniatures In Two Manuscripts Of The Early Mamlūk Period In Cambridge / Lucy-Anne Hunt
• A Nestorian Arabic Pentateuch Used In Western Islamic Lands / Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
• Biblical Allusions And Citations In The Syriac Theotokia According To The Ms Syr. New Series 11 Of The National Library Of Russia, St Petersburg / Natalia Smelova
• Bibliography / D.R. Thomas
• Index / D.R. Thomas.