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The Orthodox church in the Arab world: 700-1700 an anthology..

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Arabic was among the first languages in which the Gospel was preached. The Book of Acts mentions Arabs as being present at the first Pentecost in Jerusalem, where they heard the Christian message in their native tongue. Christian literature in Arabic is at least 1,300 years old, the oldest surviving texts dating from the 8th century. Pre-modern Arab Christian literature embraces such diverse genres as Arabic translations of the Bible and the Church Fathers, biblical commentaries, lives of the saints, theological and polemical treatises, devotional poetry, philosophy, medicine, and history. Yet in the Western historiography of Christianity, the Arab Christian Middle East is treated only peripherally, if at all.

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Z. HANDIMAN

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281.909 NOB o

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Illinois : NIU Press., 2014

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viii,375p.; 24 cm.

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English

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978-02-87580-701-0

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281.909

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ORTHODOX EASTERN CHURCH - ARAB COUNTRIES, HISTORY

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