Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations

Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations explores the Arabic translations of the Greek and Syriac Church Fathers, focusing on those produced in the Palestinian monasteries and at Sinai in the 8th-10th centuries and in Antioch during Byzantine rule (969-1084).

About the author

Barbara Roggema, Ph.D. (2007, University of Groningen), is a specialist in the history of Jewish-Christian-Muslim interaction in the medieval Middle East. She is research fellow in the ERC-project "Jewish and Christians in the East: Strategies of Interaction between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Alexander Treiger, Ph.D. (2008, Yale University), is Associate Professor at Dalhousie University. He is editor of the series "Arabic Christianity: Texts and Studies" (Brill) and co-editor of The Orthodox Church in the Arab World (700-1700): An Anthology of Sources (2014) and Heirs of the Apostles: Studies on Arabic Christianity in Honor of Sidney H. Griffith (2019).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2019
• EAN: 9789004414945
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41494-5
• No. of pages: 442
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 762 g
• Series: Arabic Christianity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous