New publication: Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Commentary on Genesis – in English

A kind correspondent draws my attention to an interesting new publication, of an English translation of Ibn al-Tayyib’s “Commentary on Genesis”. 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. The translators are Deirdre Dempsey, Safwat Marzouk and Stephen J. Davis, and the price is a very reasonable $35. The Fordham Press website for it is here, and it’s on Amazon.com here. From the blurb: 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. Abū-l-Faraj ibn al-Ṭayyib (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—a physician, philosopher, and theologian—and part of an illustrious line of teachers dedicated to the transmission of scientific knowledge from Greek into Syriac and…

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