: Eastern christian apologetics and apocalyptic in response to islam
/ by Barbara Roggema.
; Boston
: Brill
, 2009.
xii, 579 p.
: ill.
; 25 cm.
History of Christian-Muslim relations,
9
1570-7350 ;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-560) and index.
The legend of Sergius Bahira in the light of Christian apologetics vis-a-vis Islam -- Muslim-Christian confrontation and counterhistory -- The Islamic Bahira -- The apocalypse of Bahira -- Bahira's teachings -- Breaking crosses -- God's word and his spirit-Bahira's christology -- Protection and recognition-Bahira and Q 5:82 -- The physics of heaven -- The Qur'an against Islam -- The legend outside the legend -- Bahira the source -- Bahira the heretic -- Bahira the false witness -- Bahira the victim -- Jewish traditions about Bahira -- Bahira the forecaster -- Concluding discussion -- Texts and translations -- The recensions and the manuscript tradition -- Some characteristics of the recensions -- Textual genealogy -- Manuscripts -- Conspectus siglorum -- Methodological considerations -- The East-Syrian recension -- The West-Syrian recension -- The short Arabic recension -- The long Arabic recension.
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Legend of Bahira
Apologetics - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism.
Christianity and other religions - Islam - History.