The Legend of Sergius Baḥīrā
Eastern Christian Apologetics and Apocalyptic in Response to Islam
Biographical note
Barbara Roggema has a Ph.D. in Languages and Cultures of the Middle East (University of Groningen, 2007) and is lecturer in the History of the Islamic World at John Cabot University (Rome).
Readership
All those interested in the history of Muslim-Christian interaction, apocalypticism, Christian apologetics, Eastern Christianity, Christian Arabic and Syriac literature, history of Islam , Medieval Europe, Byzantium.
Reviews
“[…] the value of the publication lies in the thoroughness of Roggema’s edition of the Legend of Baḥīrā, which is the outcome of an outstanding scholarly effort.”
Alexandros Tsakos in JOAS 20 (2011), 301-302.
Alexandros Tsakos in JOAS 20 (2011), 301-302.
Table of contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I: THE LEGEND OF SERGIUS BAḤĪRĀ IN LIGHT OF CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS VIS-À-VIS ISLAM
Chapter One: Muslim-Christian Confrontation and Counterhistory
Chapter Two: The Islamic Baḥīrā
Chapter Three: The Apocalypse of Baḥīrā
Chapter Four: Baḥīrā’s Teachings
Breaking Crosses
God’s Word and His Spirit— Baḥīrā’s Christology
Protection and recognition – Baḥīrā and Q 5:82
The Physics of Heaven
Chapter Five: The Qurʾan against Islam
Chapter Six: The legend outside the Legend
Baḥīrā the Source
Baḥīrā the Heretic
Baḥīrā the False Witness
Baḥīrā the Victim
Jewish Traditions about Baḥīrā
Baḥīrā the Forecaster
Chapter Seven: Concluding Discussion
PART II: TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
Chapter Eight: The Recensions and the Manuscript Tradition
Some Characteristics of the Recensions
Textual Genealogy
Manuscripts
Conspectus Siglorum
Methodological Considerations
Chapter Nine: The East-Syrian Recension
Chapter Ten: The West-Syrian Recension
Chapter Eleven: The Short Arabic Recension
Chapter Twelve: The Long Arabic Recension
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF SCRIPTURAL VERSES
GENERAL INDEX
INTRODUCTION
PART I: THE LEGEND OF SERGIUS BAḤĪRĀ IN LIGHT OF CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS VIS-À-VIS ISLAM
Chapter One: Muslim-Christian Confrontation and Counterhistory
Chapter Two: The Islamic Baḥīrā
Chapter Three: The Apocalypse of Baḥīrā
Chapter Four: Baḥīrā’s Teachings
Breaking Crosses
God’s Word and His Spirit— Baḥīrā’s Christology
Protection and recognition – Baḥīrā and Q 5:82
The Physics of Heaven
Chapter Five: The Qurʾan against Islam
Chapter Six: The legend outside the Legend
Baḥīrā the Source
Baḥīrā the Heretic
Baḥīrā the False Witness
Baḥīrā the Victim
Jewish Traditions about Baḥīrā
Baḥīrā the Forecaster
Chapter Seven: Concluding Discussion
PART II: TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
Chapter Eight: The Recensions and the Manuscript Tradition
Some Characteristics of the Recensions
Textual Genealogy
Manuscripts
Conspectus Siglorum
Methodological Considerations
Chapter Nine: The East-Syrian Recension
Chapter Ten: The West-Syrian Recension
Chapter Eleven: The Short Arabic Recension
Chapter Twelve: The Long Arabic Recension
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF SCRIPTURAL VERSES
GENERAL INDEX
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