{"id":58190,"date":"2026-11-12T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=58190"},"modified":"2026-11-12T11:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:57:20","slug":"new-publication-ibn-al-%e1%b9%adayyibs-commentary-on-genesis-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2026\/11\/12\/new-publication-ibn-al-%e1%b9%adayyibs-commentary-on-genesis-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication: Ibn al-\u1e6cayyib\u2019s Commentary on Genesis – in English"},"content":{"rendered":"

A kind correspondent draws my attention to an interesting new publication, of an English translation of Ibn al-Tayyib’s “Commentary on Genesis”.\u00a0 The bible commentaries of this Christian Arabic writer (d. 1043) are very little known, and it is wonderful to have this new volume, of 160 pages.\u00a0 The translators are Deirdre Dempsey, Safwat Marzouk and Stephen J. Davis, and the price is a very reasonable $35.\u00a0 The Fordham Press website for it is here<\/a>, and it’s on Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From the blurb:<\/p>\n

The first English-language translation of a major biblical commentary written in Arabic by a seminal figure in the history of Christianity in the Middle East.<\/b><\/p>\n

Ab\u016b-l-Faraj ibn al-\u1e6cayyib (d. 1043) spent his adult life in Baghdad, where he served as a priest in the Church of the East around the turn of the first millenium. He was a polymath\u2014a physician, philosopher, and theologian\u2014and part of an illustrious line of teachers dedicated to the transmission of scientific knowledge from Greek into Syriac and then later into Arabic. He authored commentaries on Aristotle, Galen, and Hippocrates, as well as original treatises on the Trinity, science and miracles, Christian law, and the resurrection. His major works of biblical interpretation included a complete commentary on the Bible, entitled The Paradise of Christianity<\/i>. The first part of it, his Commentary on Genesis<\/i>, is translated here into English for the first time and accompanied by a critical introduction to Ibn al-\u1e6cayyib\u2019s life and writings; the form, method, and content of his biblical interpretation; and his theology of creation and the divine Word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I seem to have started writing about Ibn al-Tayyib in 2009, so it is delightful to see something appearing!\u00a0 Stephen J. Davis seems to be the man pushing things along.\u00a0 I hope the volume is a success!<\/p>\n

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