Further Notes on the Word <i>Ṣibgha </i>in Qur’ān 2:138Journal of Semitic StudiesSyriaca.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/52UHDPCN/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Sean W.AnthonyFurther Notes on the Word <i>Ṣibgha </i>in Qur’ān 2:138http://syriaca.org/cbss/52UHDPCNhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/52UHDPCNhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/52UHDPCNJournal of Semitic Studies59:12014117-129Recent scholarship on the interpretation of <i>ṣibghat Allāh</i> (lit., ‘the dye of God’) in Qurʾān 2:138 has trended in two directions. A moderate trend views the word <i>ṣibgha </i>as merely a caique of the Syriac word for baptism, <i>maṣbūʿītā</i>. Another recent, more radical approach regards <i>ṣibgha</i> as a product of the corrupting vicissitudes of the Qurʾān's textual transmission and, therefore, has proposed alternative, text-critical renderings of the Quranic ductus itself. This article offers a third - hopefully more compelling - reading, wherein the phrase ‘the dye of God’ is read in light of similar baptismal metaphors scattered throughout the Christian literature of Near Eastern Late Antiquity.
Anthony, Sean W. “Further Notes on the Word Ṣibgha in Qur’ān 2:138.” Journal of Semitic Studies 59:1 (2014): 117–29.
Sean W. Anthony, Further Notes on the Word Ṣibgha in Qur’ān 2:138,” Journal of Semitic Studies 59:1 (2014): 117–29.QuranSyriac influence [Arabs]SyriacismsVII CEVII-XVIII CEbaptismsacraments