An Early Syriac Response to the Charge of <i>Taḥrīf</i> in George of Bʿeltan’s <i>Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew</i>The European Qurʾan 6Syriaca.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/S8YAR82J/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.BertJacobsAn Early Syriac Response to the Charge of <i>Taḥrīf</i> in George of Bʿeltan’s <i>Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew</i>http://syriaca.org/cbss/S8YAR82Jhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/S8YAR82Jhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/S8YAR82JOctavian-AdrianNegoițăEastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qurʾān: Texts, Contexts and Knowledge RegimesBerlinWalter de Gruyter20257-43The European Qurʾan 6This contribution studies a hitherto unidentified Syriac response to the Muslim charge of biblical falsification (<i>taḥrīf</i>), found in chapter 49 of the introduction to the <i>Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew</i> by the West Syriac Patriarch George of Bʿeltan (758-89/90). Besides its early date and comprehensiveness, two elements render this brief text unique in Syriac literature. First, it contains among the earliest quotations of the Qur’ān in Syriac, if not the very first. Second, it provides the earliest version of the so-called “True Religion Apology,” a discourse that soon thereafter becomes very popular in Arabic Christian apologetic texts but is much less common in Syriac. Besides introducing this original response to taḥrīf, this contribution provides an edition of the chapter with English translation.
Jacobs, Bert. “An Early Syriac Response to the Charge of Taḥrīf in George of Bʿeltan’s Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.” In Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qurʾān: Texts, Contexts and Knowledge Regimes, edited by Octavian-Adrian Negoiță, 7–43. The European Qurʾan 6. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2025.
Bert Jacobs, An Early Syriac Response to the Charge of Taḥrīf in George of Bʿeltan’s Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew,” in Eastern Christians’ Engagement with Islam and the Qurʾān: Texts, Contexts and Knowledge Regimes, ed. Octavian-Adrian Negoiță, The European Qurʾan 6 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2025), 7–43.