Monastic Literature in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai: Manuscripts, Scribes, Translators, Authors, and Later Readers

 The journal Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin has just released in open-access a special issue entitled Monastic Literature in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai: Manuscripts, Scribes, Translators, Authors, and Later Readers with several articles of interest about early Orthodox literature in Arabic. The table of contents is as follows:

 

 

Monastic Literature in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai: Manuscripts, Scribes, Translators, Authors, and Later Readers
ed. Adrian C. Pirtea

• pp. 7-14: Monastic Literature in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai: Studies on Manuscripts, Scribes, Translators, Authors, and Later Readers. An Introduction (Adrian C. Pirtea)
  DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18346
• pp. 15-57: Building a Christian Arabic Library at Mount Sinai: The Scribe Thomas of Fusṭāṭ and the Manuscripts of His Workshop (Peter Tarras)
  DOI:  10.25592/uhhfdm.18348
• pp. 59-89: Scribes, Owners, and their Multilingual Annotations in the Byzantine Euchologia of Saint Catherine’s Monastery (Giulia Rossetto)
  DOI:  10.25592/uhhfdm.18350
• pp. 91-115: ‘Inhabiting the Word of the Other’: Linguistic Hospitality, Early Christian Arabic Psalters, and the Functions of Bilingual Manuscripts (Miriam L. Hjälm)
  DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18352
• pp. 117-139: From Greek into Arabic through a Syriac Intermediary: New Evidence from Palestinian Hagiography (André Binggeli)
  DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18354
• pp. 141-171: St Macarius the Great at Mar Saba: Melkite Syriac, Arabic and Georgian Translations of the Corpus Macarianum in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai (Adrian C. Pirtea)
  DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18356
• pp. 173-208: A Ninth-Century Arabic Christian Refutation of the ‘Eternalists’: David of Damascus’ Homily on Palm Sunday (Alexander Treiger)
  DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18358

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