Arabic Holy Bible with references / 050 series / Black leather bound, golden page edges / United Bible Societies 2011 / Verse references in side column / Van Dyke translation

Leather bound 2010

ISBN 9781903865422 / 978-1903865422

ISBN-10: 1903865425

PAGES: 1533

PUBLISHER: United Bible Societies

LANGAUGE: Arabic

Dimensions: 15.5x21.5 cm

Printed in 17.000 Copies

English Summary:

Single-column text

Chapter and section headings

Side-column references

Maps

Leather cover, Gilt edges, Ribbon marker

Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck, M.D. (August 13, 1818 – November 13, 1895) was an American missionary and translator of the Bible into Arabic.

He was born at Kinderhook, New York and educated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated as M.D. in 1839.

In 1840, he was sent to Lebanon by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions as a medical missionary for the Dutch Reformed Church, and he was stationed at Beirut, Abeih, Sidon, and Mount Tabor. He studied Arabic in Beirut under Butrus al-Bustani and Nasif al-Yaziji, both of whom later became famous Arab writers, and Yusuf al-Asir, with whom he would later collaborate in translating the Bible into Arabic. He married Julia Abbott, daughter of the former British consul-general in Beirut, in December 1842.

In June 1843, they moved to 'Abeih, where, with W. M. Thomson, he organized a secondary school for training evangelical ministers. Noting the scarcity of suitable teaching materials in Arabic, he proceeded to write Arabic textbooks on geography, navigation, natural history, and mathematics, which were long used in Syrian schools. He also studied theology and was ordained a minister by his fellow missionaries in 1846, shortly before the inauguration of the Abeih Seminary.