Revelation 1-3 in Christian Arabic Commentary: John's First Vision and the Letters to the Seven Churches (Christian Arabic Texts in Translation) - Softcover

Al-Būshī, Būlus; Qayṣar, Ibn Kātib

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823281833 ISBN 13: 9780823281831

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2019

Synopsis

The first publication in a new series―Christian Arabic Texts in Translation, edited by Stephen Davis―this book presents English-language excerpts from thirteenth-century commentaries on the Apocalypse of John by two Egyptian authors, Būlus al-Būshī and Ibn Kātib Qas.ar. Accompanied by scholarly introductions and critical annotations, this edition will provide a valuable entry-point to important but understudied theological work taking place at the at the meeting-points of the medieval Christian and Muslim worlds.

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About the Author:

Stephen J. Davis (Edited By)
Stephen J. Davis s Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University, and author of Christ Child: Cultural Memories of a Young Jesus (Yale, 2014) and Monasticism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2018).

T.C. Schmidt (Edited By)
T. C. Schmidt is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University and an Adjunct Professor at Fairfield University; his previous publications include the book-length translation Hippolytus of Rome: Commentary on Daniel and “Chronicon” (Gorgias Press 2017).

Shawqi Talia (Edited By)
Shawqi Talia is lecturer in Semitic Languages, Catholic University of America, and University Teaching Fellow, Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät, University of Munster, Germany. He has published on Syriac, Neo-Aramaic, Garshuni texts, and Medieval Islamic studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0823281833
• ISBN 13: 9780823281831
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Davis Stephen J., Schmidt T.C., Talia Shawqi