The Intimate Conversations of God with Moses on Mount Sinai (<i>Munājāt Mūsā</i>): An Apocryphon from Islam to Christianity to JudaismOrientalia Christiana PeriodicaSyriaca.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/TRRANKQ6/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Barbara HjördisRoggemaThe Intimate Conversations of God with Moses on Mount Sinai (<i>Munājāt Mūsā</i>): An Apocryphon from Islam to Christianity to Judaismhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/TRRANKQ6https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/TRRANKQ6https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/TRRANKQ6Orientalia Christiana Periodica88:1202281-104The <i>Munâjât Mûsâ</i> or ‘the Intimate Conversations of God with Moses on Mount Sinai’ is a Moses apokryphon, probably originally written in Arabic, that describes how God gave Moses a series of moral injunctions and rituals and how Moses questioned God about His being and His power. The exchange between the two also features cosmogonic and soteriological themes and culminates in God’s promise of a fuller and final revelation in the future. In the Christian version God announces the Divine incarnation, while in the case of the Islamic <i>Munâjât Mûsâ</i>, God gives a preview of the advent of Muhammad. Judging from the vast amount of surviving manuscripts from all over the Islamicate world (including translations into Aljamiado, Swahili, Hausa, Persian and Malay), these versions must have been very popular. Eastern Christians also had versions in Syriac, Ethiopic and Armenian, while Ethiopian Jews reworked it into a Jewish text. In this paper I introduce the various versions, list their manuscripts, and analyze and compare some of the narrative strategies through which they appropriate Moses and the revelation on Sinai as known the Hebrew Bible. I also argue that there are elements in the apocryphon pointing to an Islamic origin.
Roggema, Barbara Hjördis. “The Intimate Conversations of God with Moses on Mount Sinai (Munājāt Mūsā): An Apocryphon from Islam to Christianity to Judaism.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 88:1 (2022): 81–104.
Barbara Hjördis Roggema, The Intimate Conversations of God with Moses on Mount Sinai (Munājāt Mūsā): An Apocryphon from Islam to Christianity to Judaism,” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 88:1 (2022): 81–104.Arab ChristiansColloquy of MosesMosesMuslim-Christian relationsOT apocryphaVII-XVIII CE