Bible in Arab Christianity

David Thomas, PhD (1983) in Islamic Studies, University of Lancaster, is Reader in Christianity and Islam in the Department of Theology, University of Birmingham. He has published widely on Christian-Muslim relations, including (with Rifaat Ebied) Muslim-Christian Polemic during the Crusades (Brill, 2005).

• Introduction Hikmat Kachouh The Arabic Versions of the Gospels: A Case Study of John 1.1 and 1.18 Samir Arbache Bible et liturgie chez les Arabes chretiens (VIe - IXe siecle) Shaun O'Sullivan Anti-Jewish Polemic and Early Islam Harald Suermann The Use of Biblical Quotations in Christian Apocalyptic Writings of the Umayyad Period Mark Swanson Beyond Prooftexting (2): The Use of the Bible in Some Early Arabic Christian Apologies Emmanouela Grypeou The Re-written Bible in Arabic: The Paradise Story and Its Exegesis in the Arabic Apocalypse of Peter Barbara Roggema Biblical Exegesis and Interreligious Polemics in the Arabic Apocalypse of Peter -The Book of the Rolls David Bertaina The Development of Testimony Collections in Early Christian Apologetics with Islam David Thomas The Bible and the Kalam Gabriel Said Reynolds The Qur'anic Sarah as Prototype of Mary Gordon Nickel Early Muslim Accusations of tahrif: Muqatil Ibn Sulayman's Commentary on Key Qur'anic Verses Clare Wilde Is There Room for Corruption in the 'Books' of God? Mark Beaumont 'Ammar al-Basri on the Alleged Corruption of the Gospels Sandra Keating The Use and Translation of Scripture in the Apologetic Writings of Abu Ra'ita al-Takriti Maha El-Kaisy Friemuth Al-Radd al-Jamil: al-Ghazali's or Pseudo-Ghazali's? Lejla Demiri Hanbalite Commentary on the Bible: Analysis of Najm al-Din al-Tufi's (d. 716/1316) Al-Ta'liq Lucy-Anne Hunt Illustrating the Gospels in Arabic: Byzantine and Arab Christian Miniatures in Two Manuscripts of the Early Mamluk Period in Cambridge Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala A Nestorian Arabic Pentateuch used in Western Islamic Lands Natalia Smelova Biblical Allusions and Citations in the Syriac Theotokia according to the MS Syr. New Series 11 of the National Library of Russia, St Petersburg Bibliography

"[les articles] contribuent a une meilleure comprehension des communautes chretiennes partagees entre la defense de la foi et la polemique avec l'islam." J. Dean in REVUE D'HISTOIRE ET DE PHILOSOPHIE RELIGIEUSES 2012, Tome 92 n 4.