Further Notes on the Word Ṣibgha in Qurʾān 2: 138
Recent scholarship on the interpretation of ṣibghat Allāh (lit., ‘the dye of God’) in Qurʾān 2:138 has trended in two directions. A moderate trend views the word ṣibgha as merely a caique of the Syriac word for baptism, maṣbūʿītā. Another recent, more radical approach regards ṣibgha as a product of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2014]
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 117-129 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BJ Islam |
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| Summary: | Recent scholarship on the interpretation of ṣibghat Allāh (lit., ‘the dye of God’) in Qurʾān 2:138 has trended in two directions. A moderate trend views the word ṣibgha as merely a caique of the Syriac word for baptism, maṣbūʿītā. Another recent, more radical approach regards ṣibgha as a product of the corrupting vicissitudes of the Qurʾān's textual transmission and, therefore, has proposed alternative, text-critical renderings of the Quranic ductus itself. This article offers a third — hopefully more compelling — reading, wherein the phrase ‘the dye of God’ is read in light of similar baptismal metaphors scattered throughout the Christian literature of Near Eastern Late Antiquity. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-8556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Semitic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgt037 |