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Stephen J. Davis s Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University, and author of Christ Child: Cultural Memories of a Young Jesus (Yale, 2014) and Monasticism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2018).
T.C. Schmidt (Edited By)
T. C. Schmidt is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University and an Adjunct Professor at Fairfield University; his previous publications include the book-length translation Hippolytus of Rome: Commentary on Daniel and “Chronicon” (Gorgias Press 2017).
Shawqi Talia (Edited By)
Shawqi Talia is lecturer in Semitic Languages, Catholic University of America, and University Teaching Fellow, Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät, University of Munster, Germany. He has published on Syriac, Neo-Aramaic, Garshuni texts, and Medieval Islamic studies.
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Editorial Notes and Abbreviations xi
Introduction: Two Arabic Commentaries on the Apocalypse of John in Historical and Cultural Context, 1
Stephen J. Davis
1 Būlus al-Būshī on Revelation 1–3: Christology and Christian-Muslim Encounter, 9
Shawqi Talia and Stephen J. Davis
2 Ibn Kātib Qayṣar on Visions, Angels, Prophets, and Dreams, 22
Stephen J. Davis
3 Ibn Kātib Qayṣar on Revelation 1–3: The First Vision and the Letters to the Seven Churches, 41
T. C. Schmidt, with contributions by Stephen J. Davis
4 Būlus al-Būshī, Commentary on the Apocalypse of John, ch. 1–3, 60
Translated by Shawqi Talia; edited by Stephen J. Davis
5 Ibn Kātib Qayṣar, Commentary on the Apocalypse of John, ch. 1–3, 86
Translated by Stephen J. Davis and T. C. Schmidt
Works Cited 149
Subject Index 163
Biblical Index 169