 | Revelation 1-3 in Christian Arabic Commentary: John''s First Vision and the Letters to the Seven Churches Subjects: Bible. Revelation I-III -- Commentaries; Būlus al-Būshī Bishop approximately 1170 -- Tafsīr sifr al- Ru’yā; Ibn Kātib Qayṣar Ibrāhīm ibn Ṣafī al-Dawlah active 13th century. Tafsir ru’yā al-Qiddīs Yūḥannā al- Lāhūtī; 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. Davis Stephen J. : 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).Schmidt T.C. : 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).Talia Shawqi : 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. Stephen J. Davis (Edited By) |
