Eastern Crossroads: Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy

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This volume contains papers from the First International Congress on Eastern Christianity held in Córdoba, Spain, November 2005. The encounter of medieval Christian writers with several linguistic traditions through the Middle Ages produced one of the most important branches of Middle Eastern literature. This encounter not only changed the nature of the respective writings throughout time, but also influenced considerably the development of the legacies transmitted by the writers and the scholars of various Eastern Christian churches. Contents Abbreviations Preface Foreword 1. Beyond boundaries Rôle culturel des chrétiens en Orient Le rôle de Grégoire Akindynos dans la controverse hésychaste du XIVème siècle à Byzance 2. Melkite texts at the heart of the Muslim world Lingua sacra? Some early Melkite views on the ‘inimitable’ Qur'än An unpublished Graeco-Arabic Ms. of Luke’s Gospel (BnF, suppl. grec 911) from the 11th century 3. Writing the Syriac Culture The Semantic Domain of Fire in the Writings of Joseph Ḥazzāyā The Syriac Biblical Tradition: Between Jerusalem and Athens The Old Testament and the Jews in the dialogue between the Jacobite Patriarch John I and ‛Umayr ibn Sa‛d al- An¡…r† Jacob Bar Šakko, the Book of Treasures and the Syrian Renaissance 4. Facing the Coptic Surroundings The Visions of Apa Shenute of Atripe’: An Analysis in the History of Traditions of Eastern Christian Apocalyptic Motifs Nonnus’ Paraphrase of the Gospel of St. John: Pagan models for Christian literature La pré-renaissance copte arabe du Moyen Âge (deuxième moitié du XIIe / début du XIIIe siècle) ‘Our Father Abba Mark’: Marqus al-Antūnī and the Construction of Sainthood in Fourteenth-Century Egypt 5. Christian Oriental Heritage in the Ibero-Maghribi Setting Le christianisme oriental vu par Riccoldo da Monte di Croce Diffusion d’Isaac de Ninive dans la Péninsule Ibérique Two Oriental-Christian apologetic texts in a Maghribi codex 6. Linguistic Perspectives in the Semitic Orient The Psalter fragment from the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: a birth certificate of Nabațī Arabic A Greek loanword in Aramaic. Something else on the Peštțā hapax legomenon ’espaynīqē Methodological problems in Syriac neotestamentary lexicography The Aramaean speakers of Iraq in the Arabic sources Appendices Survol de la situation des recherches arabes chrétiennes Current Trends in Syriac Studies Some Current Projects on Coptic Studies