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Apocalyptic literature --- Church history --- Judaism --- Christianity --- Mysticism --- Bible --- Bible. --- Study and teaching --- 30-600 --- Brazil. --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Église --- Judaïsme --- Christianisme --- Mysticisme --- Histoire --- Étude et enseignement

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From the eighth century onwards, Christians living under Islam have produced numerous apologetic and polemical works, aimed at proving the continuing validity of Christianity. Among these is the Legend of Sergius Baḥīrā, which survives in two Syriac and two Arabic versions, and appears here in edition and translation. Being a counterhistory of Islam, it reshapes early Muslim traditions about a monk recognizing Muḥammad as the final Prophet by turning this monk into Muhammad’s tutor and co-author of the Qur’an. In response to Muslim triumphalist propaganda, it portrays Islam’s political power as predestined but finite and unrelated to its religious message. This feature sets the legend apart from similar Christian accounts of the origin of Islam, East and West, which are reviewed in this study as well.

Apologetics --- Apocalyptic literature --- Christianity and other religions --- Islam --- Apologétique --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Christianisme --- History --- History and criticism. --- Relations --- Christianity --- History. --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Legend of Bahira. --- History and criticism --- Legend of Bāḥīrā --- Legend of Baḥīrā. --- Apologétique --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Legend of Baḥīrā. --- Christendom. --- Biographie. --- Christentum. --- Interreligiöse Beziehung. --- Judentum. --- Baḥīrā. --- Baḥīrā-Legende. --- Legend of Sergius Baḥīrā --- Legend of Beḥīrā --- Baḥīrā-Legende --- Apocalypse of Baḥīrā --- Apocalypse de Serge-Bahira --- Geschichte 800-850. --- Apologetics - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism --- Christianity and other religions - Islam - History --- Islam - Relations - Christianity - History

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This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on traditions about the fallen angels. In the Book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the third century BCE, the 'sons of God' of Gen 6:1–4 are accused of corrupting humankind through their teachings of metalworking, cosmetology, magic, and divination. By tracing the transformations of this motif in Second Temple, Rabbinic, and early medieval Judaism and early, late antique, and Byzantine Christianity, this book sheds light on the history of interpretation of Genesis, the changing status of Enochic literature, and the place of parabiblical texts and traditions in the interchange between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. In the process, it explores issues such as the role of text-selection in the delineation of community boundaries and the development of early Jewish and Christian ideas about the origins of evil on the earth.

Apocalyptic literature --- Angels. --- Christian literature, Early. --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- Church history --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Anges --- Littérature chrétienne primitive --- Christianisme --- Judaïsme --- Eglise --- History and criticism. --- Judaism. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Ethiopic book of Enoch VI-XXXVI --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 229*209 --- -Angels --- Christian literature, Early --- -Judaism --- -Church history --- -Angelology --- Cherubim --- Cherubs (Spirits) --- Divine messengers --- Seraphim --- Spirits --- Literature, Apocalyptic --- Literature --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Early Christian literature --- Patristic literature --- I Henoch (Ethiopische Henoch) --- History and criticism --- -Christianity --- Religion --- -Bible. --- Be-reshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bereshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bytie (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chʻangsegi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Genesis (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sifr al-Takwīn --- Takwīn (Book of the Old Testament) --- Book of watchers --- -I Henoch (Ethiopische Henoch) --- 229*209 I Henoch (Ethiopische Henoch) --- Anges. --- Littérature chrétienne primitive. --- Église --- RELIGION --- Apocalyptic literature. --- Interfaith relations. --- Histoire et critique. --- Judaïsme. --- Christianisme. --- Biblical Studies. --- Primitive and early church. --- Livre d'Hénoch (éthiopien). --- Ethiopic book of Enoch VI-XXXVI. --- Critique, interprétation, etc. --- 30-600. --- Christian literature, early. --- Biblical studies. --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Littérature chrétienne primitive --- Judaïsme --- Angels --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Angelology --- Relations&delete& --- Brotherhood Week --- Arts and Humanities