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The legend of Sergius Baḥīrā : eastern Christian apologetics and apocalyptic in response to Islam
- Title
- The legend of Sergius Baḥīrā : eastern Christian apologetics and apocalyptic in response to Islam / by Barbara Roggema.
- Author
- Roggema, Barbara.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 579 pages; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- History of Christian-Muslim relations, 1570-7350 ; v. 9
- Uniform Title
- Legend of Baḥīrā. Polyglot.
- History of Christian-Muslim relations ; v. 9.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-560) and index.
- Contents
- The legend of Sergius Baḥīrā in the light of Christian apologetics vis-à-vis Islam -- Muslim-Christian confrontation and counterhistory -- The Islamic Baḥīrā -- The apocalypse of Baḥīrā -- Baḥīrā's teachings -- Breaking crosses -- God's word and His Spirit--Baḥīrā's Christology -- Protection and recognition-- Baḥīrā and Q 5:82 -- The physics of heaven -- The Qur'an against Islam -- The legend outside the Legend -- Baḥīrā the source -- Baḥīrā the heretic -- Baḥīrā the false witness -- Baḥīrā the victim -- Jewish traditions about Baḥīrā -- Baḥīrā 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.
- ISBN
- 9789004167308 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9004167307 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008047447
- 99932371005
- OCLC
- ocn228369894
- 228369894
- SCSB-5450035
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries