Browsing Collectanea Christiana Orientalia. Vol. 21 (2024) by Issue Date

Edenic Children and Unripened Fruit: Anthropological and Botanical Immaturity in the Ethiopic Mystery of the Judgment of Sinners

Bonar, Chance (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2024)

In the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, scribes around Lake Tana in northwestern Ethiopia translated and disseminated an Arabic apocryphal dialogue between Jesus and Peter. Recording exhortations and revelations ...

Les gravures des livres imprimés au XVIIIe siècle au Monastère-Saint-Jean-Baptiste à Khenchara – Mont Liban

Nassif, Charbel (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2024)

This article aims to present the books of the printing press founded by the Aleppian ʿAbd Allāh Zāḫir (1684-1748) at the Saint John the Baptist Monastery in Khenchara (Mount Lebanon) in the 18th century, the motherhouse ...

An anonymous fragment on Pentapolis. A contribution to the history of Pentapolis in the Islamic period

Monferrer-Sala, J. P.; Nesim Youssef, Youhanna (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2024)

The scarcity of data on Pentapolis during the Islamic period contrasts, albeit with gaps, with the information we currently have for earlier periods. With the edition, translation and study of this brief Coptic-Arabic ...

ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Bājī's (d. 714/1314) critique of the Pentateuch and the plurality of Christian Bible recensions

Adang, Camilla; Hjälm, Miriam L. (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2024)

The present article discusses the Muslim legal scholar and theologian ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Bājī (631-714/1233 1314) and his polemic against the Pentateuch, which he read in at least two Christian Arabic translations that were ...

The issue of Jesus’ multilingualism and Mark-within-Judaism

Lavender, Jordan (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2024)

The available evidence suggests that Jesus was portrayed as a Jewish sage, like the early Rabbis, and in his literary portrayal, he is presented as one able to speak Greek. The Aramaic phrases found in Mark and elsewhere ...

An Early Arabic Translation of Exodus 15 from a Palestinian Melkite Psalter in the Cairo Genizah

Posegay, Nick (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2024)

This article presents an Arabic translation of Exodus 15 from the Cairo Genizah, preserved in two fragments of a Christian Psalter (MSS CUL T-S NS 305.198 and T-S NS 305.210). The style of the Psalter’s Arabic script ...

A new Arabic fragment of Jacob of Serugh’s homily On Epiphany

Tarras, Peter (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2024)

This contribution presents a new Arabic fragment of Jacob of Serugh’s homily On the Baptism of Our Saviour in the Jordan (On Epiphany). It has been preserved through secondary use in the back cover of MS Sinai, St Catherine's ...

Ethnological-Historiographic View on Seven Ancient Extant Christian Liturgies

Primorac, Jaksa (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2024)

The author analyses comparatively seven ancient extant Christian liturgies: Roman Catholic Tridentine mass, Byzantine liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, four liturgies of the Oriental Orthodox Churches: Alexandrian-Coptic, ...