Timothy I Defending the Cross against Jews and Muslims: A Newly Discovered TestimonyMedieval EncountersSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/43692AQ8/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.SergeyMinovTimothy I Defending the Cross against Jews and Muslims: A Newly Discovered Testimonyhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/43692AQ8https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/43692AQ8https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/43692AQ8Medieval Encounters31:22025119-154The article presents for the first time the Syriac text, an English translation and discussion of the surviving fragments of a newly discovered apologetic composition by Timothy I (fl. 780–823), the East Syrian patriarch of Baghdad. In this work, the catholicos defends Christian practice of veneration of the cross against possible critique by Jewish and Muslim adversaries. Discussed in the context of Timothy’s other works and of the earlier and contemporary polemical literature by Christians, the newly published material offers a valuable evidence on the development of the repertoire of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim polemical arguments among Syriac and Arab Christians during the eighth and ninth centuries.
Minov, Sergey. “Timothy I Defending the Cross against Jews and Muslims: A Newly Discovered Testimony.” Medieval Encounters 31:2 (2025): 119–54. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/15700674-12340213.
Sergey Minov, Timothy I Defending the Cross against Jews and Muslims: A Newly Discovered Testimony,Medieval Encounters 31:2 (2025): 119–54, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/15700674-12340213.