HeirsoftheApostles Arabic Christianity: Texts and Studies SeriesEditor AlexanderTreiger(DalhousieUniversity,Canada) EditorialBoard DavidBertaina(UniversityofIllinois,Springfield,USA) ElieDannaoui(UniversityofBalamand,Lebanon) StephenJ.Davis(YaleUniversity,USA) John-PaulGhobrial(BalliolCollege,Oxford,UK) SandraToeniesKeating(ProvidenceCollege,USA) JohannesPahlitzsch(JohannesGutenberg-Universität,Mainz,Germany) MarkN.Swanson(LutheranSchoolofTheologyatChicago,USA) JackTannous(PrincetonUniversity,USA) volume 1 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/acts SidneyH.Griffith Courtesy: The Catholic University of America Heirs of the Apostles StudiesonArabicChristianityinHonorof SidneyH.Griffith Editedby DavidBertaina SandraToeniesKeating MarkN.Swanson AlexanderTreiger LEIDEN | BOSTON Coverillustration:TheChurchoftheHolySepulchre,Jerusalem. TheLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailableonlineathttp://catalog.loc.gov TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill‑typeface. ISSN2468-2454 ISBN978-90-04-36758-6(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-38386-9(e-book) Copyright2019byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopi, BrillSense,HoteiPublishing,mentisVerlag,VerlagFerdinandSchöninghandWilhelmFinkVerlag. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNVprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. Contents Preface xi Abbreviations xiii NotesonContributors xiv Part 1 ArabicLanguage,Bible,andQurʾān 1 AnArabicChristianPerspectiveonMonotheismintheQurʾān:Eliasof Nisibis’Kitābal-Majālis 3 DavidBertaina 2 FromMultiplicitytoUnificationoftheArabicBiblicalText:aReadingof theRūmOrthodoxProjectsfortheArabizationandPrintingofthe GospelsduringtheOttomanPeriod 22 ElieDannaoui 3 EarlyChristianArabicTranslationStrategies(Matthew11:20–30in CodexVat.Ar.13) 37 JuanPedroMonferrer-Sala 4 FlawedBiblicalTranslationsintoArabicandHowtoCorrectThem:a CoptandaJewStudySaadiah’sTafsīr 56 RonnyVollandt 5 TheUtilityofChristianArabicTextsforQurʾānicStudies 93 ClareWilde Part 2 ArabicChristianResponsestoIslamandMuslimInterpretations ofChristianity 6 ApocalypticEcclesiologyinResponsetoEarlyIslam 115 CorneliaB.Horn viii contents 7 TheRationalityofChristianDoctrine:AbūRāʾiṭaal-Takrītī’s PhilosophicalResponsetoIslam 157 SandraToeniesKeating 8 TheDoctrineoftheIncarnationinDialoguewithIslam:FourLinesof Argumentation 179 ThomasW.Ricks 9 MuslimViewsoftheCrossasaSymboloftheChristianFaith 194 ShawqiTalia 10 TheDoctrineoftheTrinityinEarlyIslam:Misperceptionsand Misrepresentations 214 DavidThomas Part 3 ArabicChristianityintheMedievalIslamicWorld 11 ByzantineMonasticismandtheHolyLand:PalestineinByzantine Hagiographyofthe11thand12thCenturies 231 JohannesPahlitzsch 12 Inquiringof“Beelzebub”:Timothyandal-JāḥiẓonChristiansinthe ʿAbbāsidLegalSystem 256 AndrewPlattandNathanP.Gibson 13 TheChurchandtheMosqueinWisdom’sShade:ontheStoryof “AlexanderandtheHermitPrince” 284 MarkN.Swanson 14 RevisitingCheikho’sAssessmentofAbūTammām’sChristian Origins 310 JenniferTobkin 15 PaulofAntioch’sResponsestoaMuslimSheikh 333 AlexanderTreiger contents ix Part 4 ManuscriptDiscoveries 16 EvagriusPonticusattheMonasteryoftheSyrians:NewlyDocumented EvidenceforanArabicReceptionHistory 349 StephenJ.Davis 17 Christian-Muslim-JewishRelationsinPatristicLiterature:theArabic QuestionsandAnswersofBasilandGregory 395 BarbaraRoggema 18 AFragmentofaChristian-MuslimDisputation“intheStyleofAbū RāʾiṭaandʿĪsāibnZurʿa”(Gothaar.2882,fols.16r–24v):a Reassessment 415 HaraldSuermann 19 AGreco-ArabicPalimpsestfromtheSinaiNewFinds:SomePreliminary Observations 426 JackTannous 20 AnArabicManuscriptoftheVisionsofAnbaShenouda:Editionand Translation 446 JasonR.Zaborowski BibliographyofSidneyH.Griffith’sPublications 495 IndexofBiblicalandQurʾānicCitations 518 IndexofNames,Subjects,andTerms 521