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The Church Fathers · c. 720–730
The Disputation of the Monk of Bet Hale
Anonymous
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What it is
A conversation between a monk and an Arab notable staying at his monastery, ranging over the cross, images, and why Christians do not pray toward a single direction.
Why it lasted
One of the earliest Christian–Muslim disputation texts, and unusually relaxed in tone for the genre.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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