Eastern Crossroads: Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy

429 Pages·2013·3.576 MB·English

by  Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala

Eastern Crossroads
Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
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Series Editors
George Anton Kiraz
István Perczel
Lorenzo Perrone
Samuel Rubenson
Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies brings to the scholarly world the
underrepresented field of Christianity as it developed in the Eastern
hemisphere. This series consists of monographs, edited collections,
texts and translations of the documents of Eastern Christianity, as
well as studies of topics relevant to the world of historic
Orthodoxy and early Christianity.
Eastern Crossroads
Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy
Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
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CONTENTS

Contents ...............................................................................................iii

Abbreviations.......................................................................................vii

Samir Khalil SAMIR, Preface.............................................................xiii

Juan Pedro MONFERRER-SALA, Foreword ........................................xvii

1. Beyond boundaries
Samir Khalil SAMIR
Rôle culturel des chrétiens en Orient..................................................3
Juan NADAL CAÑELLAS
Le rôle de Grégoire Akindynos dans la controverse
hésychaste du XIVème siècle à Byzance............................................31

2. Melkite texts at the heart of the Muslim world
Clare E. WILDE
Lingua sacra? Some early Melkite views on the
‘inimitable’ Qur’…n...........................................................................61
Ángel URBÁN FERNÁNDEZ
An unpublished Graeco-Arabic Ms. of Luke’s Gospel
(BnF, suppl. grec 911) from the 11th century...................................83

3. Writing the Syriac Culture
Pablo ARGÁRATE
The Semantic Domain of Fire in the Writings of Joseph
Ha(cid:2) zzāyā............................................................................................97
Ignacio CARBAJOSA
The Syriac Biblical Tradition: Between Jerusalem and
Athens.............................................................................................109
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Harald SUERMANN
The Old Testament and the Jews in the dialogue between
the Jacobite Patriarch John I and ‛Umayr ibn Sa‛d al-
An¡…r† ............................................................................................131
Herman TEULE
Jacob Bar Šakko, the Book of Treasures and the Syrian
Renaissance ...................................................................................143

4. Facing the Coptic Surroundings
Emmanouela GRYPEOU
The Visions of Apa Shenute of Atripe’: An Analysis in
the History of Traditions of Eastern Christian
Apocalyptic Motifs ........................................................................157
David HERNÁNDEZ DE LA FUENTE
Nonnus’ Paraphrase of the Gospel of St. John: Pagan
models for Christian literature........................................................169
Adel SIDARUS
La pré-renaissance copte arabe du Moyen Âge (deuxième
moitié du XIIe / début du XIIIe siècle)...........................................191
Mark N. SWANSON
‘Our Father Abba Mark’: Marqus al-Antūnī and the
Construction of Sainthood in Fourteenth-Century Egypt ..............217

5. Christian Oriental Heritage in the Ibero-Maghr-
ibi Setting
Fernando GONZÁLEZ MUÑOZ
Le christianisme oriental vu par Riccoldo da Monte di
Croce .............................................................................................231
Sebastià JANERAS
Diffusion d’Isaac de Ninive dans la Péninsule Ibérique ................247
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María Teresa PENELAS
Two Oriental-Christian apologetic texts in a Maghribi
codex .............................................................................................275

6. Linguistic Perspectives in the Semitic Orient
Federico CORRIENTE
The Psalter fragment from the Umayyad Mosque of
Damascus: a birth certificate of Naba¥ī Arabic..............................303
Juan Pedro MONFERRER-SALA
A Greek loanword in Aramaic. Something else on the
Peš†t¥… hapax legomenon ’espayn†qē .............................................321
Massimo PAZZINI
Methodological problems in Syriac neotestamentary
lexicography ..................................................................................345
Francisco DEL RÍO SÁNCHEZ
The Aramaean speakers of Iraq in the Arabic sources ..................359

Appendices
Samir Khalil SAMIR
Survol de la situation des recherches arabes chrétiennes ..............369
Herman TEULE
Current Trends in Syriac Studies ...................................................387
Sofía TORALLAS TOVAR
Some Current Projects on Coptic Studies.......................................401
Abreviations

AAT Ägypten und Altes Testament
AAWG Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wiss-
enschaft in Götingen. Philologisch-
Historische Klasse, Dritte Folge
AB Analecta Biblica
AHSI Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu
AKBAW Abhandlungen der königlichen bayer-
ischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
ANTT Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textf-
orschung
AO Analecta Orientalia
ASKA Arbeiten zum spätantiken und koptisc-
hen Ägypten
AST Analecta Sacra Tarraconensia (Tarra-
gona, Spain)
BAC Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos
BSAC Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie
Copte (Le Caire)
BI Bar-Ilan (Ramat-Gan, Israel)
Bibl Biblica (Rome)
BIFAO Bulletin de l’Institut français
d’árchéologie orientale (Cairo)
BJRLM Bulletin of The John Rylands Library of
Manchester (Manchester)
BRSLR Biblioteca della Rivista di Storia e Lett-
eratura Religiosa. Studi
viii Abbreviations

BSAC Bulletin de la Societé archéologique du
Caire (Cairo)
BSIH Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
African Studies (London)
BTA Biblioteca Torres Amat (Barcelona)
CBC Cahiers de la Bibliothèque Copte (Lo-
uvain)
CBET Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and
Theology
CC Clàssics del Cristianisme
CC Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Me-
diaevalis
CCA Collectanea Christiana Analecta
(Roma)
CCO Collectanea Christiana Orientalia
(Córdoba-Beirut)
CCPA A Corpus of Christian Palestinian Ar-
amaic
CE The Coptic Encyclopaedia, ed. E.A.
Atiya (New York: Macmillan, 1991
CuE Cuaderns EIDES (Barcelona)
Christ. Or. Christianismes orientaux: Introduction
à l’étude des langues et des littératures,
edité par M. Albert et al. (Paris: Le
Cerf, 1993)
CC.SG Corpus Christianorum. Series Graeca
CH Collectanea Hierosolymitana
(Paderborn)
CO Cahiers d’Orientalisme (Genève)
COC Cahiers de l’Orient chrétien (Paris)