Vestiges of Qaraite Translations in the Arabic Translation(s) of the Samaritan Pentateuch Intellectual History of the Islamicate World Biblia Arabica Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Ronny Vollandt Ronny Vollandt Nathan P. Gibson Nathan P. Gibson leonhard.becker Leonhard Becker Michael Wechsler Ronny Vollandt Record added to Zotero by Nathan P. Gibson Record edited in Zotero by leonhard.becker Primary editing by Leonhard Becker Primary editing by Michael Wechsler Primary editing by Ronny Vollandt Biblia Arabica https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/6VKB5WN8/tei

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 CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record. Gregor Schwarb Vestiges of Qaraite Translations in the Arabic Translation(s) of the Samaritan Pentateuch https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/6VKB5WN8 https://www.zotero.org/groups/biblia_arabica/items/6VKB5WN8 https://www.zotero.org/groups/538215/items/6VKB5WN8 10.1163/2212943X-20130106 Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 2013 115-157 1 A seminal study exploring the influence of the Qaraite Arabic translation tradition on Samaritan Arabic translations of the Pentateuch. Having perused different Qaraite sources, the author arrives at the conclusion that apart from many general phenomenological affinities, the most relevant parallels to the Samaritan versions are to be found in the translations of Yefet b. ʿEli and Yeshuʿah b. Yehuda. Those parallels mostly consist of smaller textual units and specific interpretative elements which are present to varying degrees in manuscripts of the earlier type of Samaritan translations and in the revised text of Abū Saʿīd. To demonstrate this findings, the author presents the two main Samaritan translation types (according to Shehadeh’s edition https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/IZFNRHBX) alongside the translations of Yefet (according to Zawanowska’s edition https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/RSWDR8MW), Yeshuʿah (drawing on unpublished manuscripts), and Saadiah. The largest text sample, Gen 24:1-34, is appended in a synoptic table (pp. 145-151) which includes a variant apparatus and different kinds of underlines that highlight the agreements and peculiarities of the different versions; other verses compared within the article proper are Gen 2:17, 11:2, and 26:1-3. The author also draws attention to the importance of glossography and lexicography for the emergence of the Samaritan and Qaraite translation traditions and occasionally makes reference to David b. Abraham al-Fāsī’s lexicon (see the edition of Skoss https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/5TQHYL9Q) and the Samaritan glossary ha-Meliṣ. Schwarb tentatively suggests that the textual agreements with Yefet b. ʿEli and Yeshuʿah b. Yehudah may be interpreted as vestiges of Qaraite influence on the Samaritan translations during a protracted period of time from the 11th century onwards. However, he also remarks that in some cases, especially with regard to Yeshuʿah, the opposite direction of influence should not be ruled out. As an appendix to the article (pp. 143-144), the author lists the manuscript fragments in section IIa of the Samaritan Firkovich Collection as compiled by Jamgotchian https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/YRQT8RMC. 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Ar. 129 Old Testament Coptic Jewish Qaraite Samaritan Pentateuch Hebrew David al-Fāsī David b. Boaz Saadiah Gaon Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī Sahl ben Maṣliaḥ Yefet ben ʿEli Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah