Revelation 1-3 in Christian Arabic Commentary

Stephen J. Davis (Edited By) 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