Dionysius bar Ṣalībī: Guardian of the Syriac Orthodox Tradition

Bert Jacobs, Ph.D. (2021), University of Leuven, is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve. His publications focus on Christian-Muslim interactions in the early and medieval Islamic world.Herman Teule, Ph.D. (1991), University of Leuven, is Professor Emeritus of Eastern Christianity at Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Leuven, has published extensively on the Syriac Renaissance, Latinizing tendencies among Syriac Christians, and the modern situation of Middle Eastern Christians.Joseph Verheyden, Ph.D. (1987), University of Leuven, is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the same university and was until 2023 the Director of the Louvain Centre for Eastern and Oriental Christianity (LOCEOC).

• List of Tables and FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1 Between Collecting and Composing: Dionysius bar Ṣalībī’s Commentary on the Song of SongsMarion Pragt2 Double Citations of the Peshitta and the Syro-Hexapla in Dionysius bar Ṣalībī’s Spiritual Commentary on Isaiah 1–12Zhan Chen3 Appraising Bar Ṣalībī’s Knowledge of Islam: Insights from a Neglected Response to the Charge of Biblical FalsificationBert Jacobs4 Two Syriac Disputations against the Jews Attributed to Ephrem and John ChrysostomRediscovered Sources of Dionysius bar Ṣalībī’s Treatise against the JewsDavid G.K. Taylor5 The Sign of the Cross as a Mark of Christian Faith: Rituals of Practical Orthodoxy in Dionysius bar ṢalībīCatalin-Stefan Popa6 Dionysius on Dionysius: Bar Ṣalībī’s Commentary on Dionysius the AreopagiteEmiliano Fiori7 Origenism and the Memory of Evagrius Ponticus during the Syriac Renaissance: Dionysius bar Ṣalībī’s Commentary on the Chapters on KnowledgeAdrian C. Pirtea8 Animals in the Writings of Dionysius bar Ṣalībī: First SoundingsJens O. Schmitt9 The “Star of His Generation”: Dionysius bar Ṣalībī and the Later TraditionHerman G.B. TeuleManuscript IndexIndex of Persons