The contested origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible : contributions to the nineteenth century Nahḍa / by David D. Grafton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grafton, David D., author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

History of Christian-Muslim relations (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 26.

History of Christian-Muslim relations ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Arabic--Van Dyck.

Bible.

Bible--Arabic--Versions--History.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.

Summary:

The History of Christian-Muslim Relations, Volume 26, This study examines the history of an Arabic Bible translation of American missionaries in late Ottoman Syria. Comparing the history of this project as recorded by the American missionaries with private correspondence and the manuscripts of the translation, The Contested Origins of the 1865 Arabic Bible provides new evidence for the Bible's compilation, including the seminal role of Syrian Christians and Muslims. This research also places the project within the wider social-political framework of a transforming Ottoman Empire, where the rise of a literate class in Beirut served as a catalyst for the Arabic literary renaissance (Nahda), and within the international field of New Testament textual studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Contested origins and contested contributions

The american syrian mission: evangelism, schools and the press

Debate over the origins and american contributions to the nahḍa

Contributions to nineteenth century biblical scholarship

The text of the 1865 Arabic bible translation

Reception of the translation

Overstated, overlooked, and undervalued contributions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9004307079

9789004307070

9789004307100

9004307109

OCLC:

918591201

Publisher Number:

99965387271