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.
• Anno di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: English
• Serie: The history of Christian-Muslim relations ; v. 6; The History of Christian-Muslim Relations 6.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 p.)
• Note: 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...