Saint John of Damascus, ‘Dialogue between a Saracen and a Christian’

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide the Greek text of the Dialogue of a Saracen and a Christian, with its Spanish translation. In the introduction the most likely authors, the contents of the text and the main issues under discussion with the Islam are analyzed, as well as an overview of the literary genre and the Greek language of the text. Finally, a possible explanation of the timeframe disorder (with no apparent sense between the aorist and present) is attempted from the modern linguistic theory known as theory of perfectivity.