For some months I’ve been translating the work that got Pope Benedict into so much trouble a year or two back; Dialogue 7 of the Dialogues with a Learned Moslem by Manuel II Paleologus. It’s been hard going, because I have found the arguments really tedious. I’ve now accepted that I will never manage to do all 37 chapters of this, and have decided to stop, and upload what I have managed to do.
Chapters 1-18 are now online here. The remark quoted by the pope comes early on, and the rest gives quite enough to see the context of the discussion.
NOOOOoooooo!!
Well, Thanks for doing this much, you’re a scholar and a gentleman , and a right good one at that:)
Glad to help!
May I ask you if it is true that in the passage ‘you will only find what is bad or inhuman’ in the original Greek there is actually a superlative or comparative as argued by Don Barbaglia in this post? http://tinyurl.com/j4cnhxw
I don’t know, I have to say. It would be interesting to know.
At pag. 142 of this book there is the Greek text of Controversy VII, 2 c. http://tinyurl.com/jlrdbwg
It would be interesting to know how Forstel translates in German this passage in his critical ediction “Manuel II. Palaiologus, Dialoge mit einem Muslim.”