Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • harvard-theologisches-seminar-adelshofen
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard
  • oxford-university-press-humsoc
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Ala' al-Dīn al-Bāji's (d. 714/1314) critique of the Pentateuch and the plurality of Christian Bible recensions
University College Stockholm, Department of Eastern Christian Studies. Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9647-7430
Tel Aviv Univ, Tel Aviv, Israel..
2024 (English)In: Collectanea Christiana Orientalia, ISSN 1697-2104, E-ISSN 2386-7442, Vol. 21, p. 1-28Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The present article discusses the Muslim legal scholar and theologian `Al & amacr;' alDin al-B & amacr;ji (631-714/1233-1314) and his polemic against the Pentateuch, which he read in at least two Christian Arabic translations that were in use among R & umacr;m Orthodox Christians (Melkites). It aims to identify the recensions of the Pentateuch that al-B & amacr;ji had access to, and to understand how the differences between these recensions contributed to his view that the shared Jewish and Christian scripture had undergone changes. The article suggests that alB & aacute;ji used a combination of arguments to undermine especially the Christian reception of divine revelation, pointing out apparent inconsistencies and illogicalities in the biblical stories themselves as well as text -critical cruxes caused by discrepancies between different versions that circulated side by side within the Eastern Christian communities. Finally, some of the "irrationalities" he describes seem to be particular of the copies of the texts he had in front of him.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
EDITORIAL UNIV CORDOBA-UCOPRESS , 2024. Vol. 21, p. 1-28
Keywords [en]
al-B & aacute, ji, Pentateuch, Melkites, Christian Arabs, R & umacr, m, Polemics
National Category
Religious Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-2538DOI: 10.21071/cco.v21i.17034ISI: 001251449800001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ths-2538DiVA, id: diva2:1896412
Part of project
En kristen Bibel i en muslimsk kontext: studier av ett negligerat arabiskt arv, Swedish Research Council
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2017-01630Available from: 2024-07-12 Created: 2024-09-10 Last updated: 2025-01-24Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full texthttps://cris.tau.ac.il/en/publications/%CA%BFal%C4%81%CA%BE-al-d%C4%ABn-al-b%C4%81j%C4%ABs-d-7141314-critique-of-the-pentateuch-and-th-2

Authority records

Lindgren Hjälm, Miriam

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Lindgren Hjälm, Miriam
By organisation
Department of Eastern Christian Studies
In the same journal
Collectanea Christiana Orientalia
Religious Studies

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 74 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • harvard-theologisches-seminar-adelshofen
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard
  • oxford-university-press-humsoc
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf