The Oldest Arabic Version of the Book of Job?
…the consonant in question, or are found in the line above or below the one occupied by that consonant. 7. Undoubtedly, one of the most interesting aspects is the question…
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…edition with a detailed introduction in her book The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet b. ‘Eli on the Book of Proverbs. Volume 1: Edition and Introduction (Leiden: Brill, 2016)….
Introducing the Bibliography of the Arabic Bible: A Classified and Annotated History of Scholarship
…a description of the item’s relevance for Arabic Bible written by the bibliography’s contributors. In many cases, I am just one click away from viewing an open-access version of the…
Don’t Alter a Word: Thoughts on Robert Alter’s “The Art of Bible Translation” (Princeton University Press: Princeton & Oxford, 2019) in the Wider Context of Hebrew Bible Translation
…a daunting one, at which many have tried a hand and few have succeeded. Here I will suffice with one fascinating example from the Arabic translation tradition of the Jews….
The Noetic Paradise and Biblia Arabica
…PhD dissertation (supervised by Ronny Vollandt, soon to be published in Brill’s “Biblia Arabica” book series) has christened ArabGr3.[2] This translation is preserved in an Epistle lectionary (the oldest manuscript…
From Piety to Superstition: The Use of Psalms in Christian Arabic Magic
…the Arabic version of the Dallāl published by Antoine Khater in 1970 and the one published by Henein and Bianquis in 1975. Fodor compared only the first seven psalms with…
Thomas of Fustat: Translator or Scribe?*
…supervision of Prof. Peter Adamson on evil, free will and eschatology in the Muslim philosopher al-Fārābī. As an associated member of the Biblia Arabica project, he has worked on biblical…
Reading and Writing the Book of Samuel in Spoken Egyptian Arabic
…consonants on a one-to-one basis. To compensate, this manuscript’s scribe used dageš consistently to indicate fricative or plosive reflexes of Hebrew consonants that correspond to an Arabic consonant. For example,…
Reunited After Over 60 Years: A Further Note on Georg Graf’s Nachlass
…and bibliographical references in such boxes. The digital age has made this practice obsolete, although it was still used by many scholars only a few decades ago. Graf’s Nachlass also…
Biblical translations into Christian Arabic preserved in the Cairo Genizah collections
…translation units. [7] Saadiah’s Tafsīr was adopted (and adapted) by Christian communities. The manuscript evidence suggests a necessary distinction between different branches of transmission, one Coptic and one Syriac Orthodox…
