Timothy's apology for Christianity
By: [translated by] A. Mingana ; introduction by Rendel Harris
Series: Woodbrooke studies : Christian documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshūni, edited and translated with a critical apparatus -- v. 2
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2009
Place of publication: United States]
Language: syr
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Apologetics; Early works to 1800; Syriac language; Texts; Syriac Manuscripts; Facsimiles; Nestorian Church; Relations; Islam
Other titles: debate on the Christian faith between Patriarch Timothy I and Caliph Mahdi in 781 A.D.
Work titles: Apology of Timothy the Patriarch before the Caliph Mahdi. English and Syriac
Notes: Reprint of the first section of the volume originally published: Cambridge, [Eng.]: W. Hefer & Sons, 1928. While the 1928 issue included the Syriac text in negative (white on black background), this edition includes the Syriac text in positive (black on white).

"Reprinted from the 'Bulletin of the John Rylands Library,' volume 12, 1928."

The Syriac text of Timothy's Apology for Christianity is a facsimile of the editor's copy called Mingana Syr. 17.

Includes bibliographical references.

Syriac text preceded by introduction and English translation;