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Title: | The Arabic version of the gospel : the mauscript and their families | ||||
Author: | Kathouth, Hikmat |
ISNI:
0000 0004 2673 3800
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Awarding Body: | University of Birmingham | ||||
Current Institution: | University of Birmingham | ||||
Date of Award: | 2008 | ||||
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This thesis is concerned with the Arabic versions of the Gospels. It is an
attempt to examine a substantial number of Arabic manuscripts which contain the
continuous text of the canonical Gospels copied between the eighth and the nineteenth
centuries and found in twenty-one different library collections in Europe and the
Orient.
Following the introduction, Chapter Two presents the state of research from
the middle of the nineteenth century to the present time. Chapter Three introduces and
reflects on the two hundred plus manuscripts examined in this work. Chapters Four to
Eight concentrate on grouping these manuscripts into twenty-four families and
examining their Vorlagen (Greek, Syriac, Coptic and Latin). In order to examine the
relationship between the families, phylogenetic software is used. Consequently, the
manuscripts are grouped into seven different mega clusters or tribes. Finally the date
of the first translation of the Gospels into Arabic is addressed and (a) provisional
date(s) suggested based on the textual and linguistic analyses of the manuscripts.
The conclusion in Chapter Ten gives the overall contribution made by this
thesis and also future avenues for the study of the Arabic versions of the Gospels.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.496010 | DOI: | Not available | ||
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