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Rabbi Yapheth Abou Aly Ibn-Aly Bassorensis Karaitarum doctoris sapientissimi in Canticum Canticorum commentarium arabicum || سفر שיר השירים … مع تفسيره الذى وضعه الشيخ العلّامة والمعلّم الفهّامة ربى يفث بن علىّ البصرىّ … Jean Joseph Léandre Bargès ed., Rabbi Yapheth Abou Aly Ibn-Aly Bassorensis Karaitarum doctoris sapientissimi in Canticum Canticorum commentarium arabicum || سفر שיר השירים … مع تفسيره الذى وضعه الشيخ العلّامة والمعلّم الفهّامة ربى يفث بن علىّ البصرىّ … (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1884)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/E7U5Y9BW
Rabbi Yapheth ben Heli Bassorensis Karaïtæ in librum Psalmorum commentarii arabici e duplici codice mss. Bibliothecæ Regiæ Parisiensis Jean Joseph Léandre Bargès ed., Rabbi Yapheth ben Heli Bassorensis Karaïtæ in librum Psalmorum commentarii arabici e duplici codice mss. Bibliothecæ Regiæ Parisiensis (Paris: Firmin Didot Fratres, 1846)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/WEXC84LP
The Arabic Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Ali the Karaite on the Book of Hosea, Edited from Eight Manuscripts and Provided with a Critical Notes and an Introduction Philip Birnbaum ed., The Arabic Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Ali the Karaite on the Book of Hosea, Edited from Eight Manuscripts and Provided with a Critical Notes and an Introduction (Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1942)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/34RLRYC5
The Arabic Commentary of Salmon ben Yeruham the Karaite on the Book of Psalms, Chapters 42–72, Edited from the Unique Manuscript in the State Public Library in Leningrad Lawrence Marwick, The Arabic Commentary of Salmon ben Yeruham the Karaite on the Book of Psalms, Chapters 42–72, Edited from the Unique Manuscript in the State Public Library in Leningrad (Philadelphia, 1956)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/9WXMVCX7
The Arabic Commentary of ‘Ali ben Suleimān the Karaite on the Book of Genesis, Edited from Unique Manuscripts and Provided with Critical Notes and an Introduction Solomon L. Skoss, The Arabic Commentary of ‘Ali ben Suleimān the Karaite on the Book of Genesis, Edited from Unique Manuscripts and Provided with Critical Notes and an Introduction (Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1928)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/L7SRWYTF
Le Psaume VIII commenté par Salmōn b. Yerūḥīm Georges Vajda, "Le Psaume VIII commenté par Salmōn b. Yerūḥīm." (Philadelphia: The Dropsie University, 1979)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/MBQ9HRE8
The Arabic Commentary of Yefet b. Ali the Karaite on the Book of Jeremiah: 150 Folios Edited from Three MSS with Critical Notes Philip David Wendkos, The Arabic Commentary of Yefet b. Ali the Karaite on the Book of Jeremiah: 150 Folios Edited from Three MSS with Critical Notes (Philadelphia, 1969)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/NER43JL4
Texts and Studies Jacob Mann, Texts and Studies vol. 2: Karaitica (Philadephia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1935)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/VY7NMYSC
The Arabic text of I Corinthians in "Studia sinaitica no. II "; a comparative linguistic, and critical study Robert Henry Boyd, The Arabic text of I Corinthians in "Studia sinaitica no. II "; a comparative linguistic, and critical study (Princeton, 1942)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/EZ4U9F9P
Hebrew in Arabic Script—Qirqisānī’s View Haggai Ben-Shammai, "Hebrew in Arabic Script—Qirqisānī’s View." (Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1982)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/F86KGYXS
פירוש יפת בן עלי לספר הושע || Yefet ben ‘Eli’s Commentary on Hosea Meira Polliack and Eliezer Schlossberg eds., פירוש יפת בן עלי לספר הושע || Yefet ben ‘Eli’s Commentary on Hosea (Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2009)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/QV8ISQLS
תפיסת רב סעדיה גאון את תרגום התורה בהשוואה לתפיסת הקראים || Se‘adyā Gaon’s Concept of Biblical Translation in the Light of the Karaite Concept Meira Polliack, "תפיסת רב סעדיה גאון את תרגום התורה בהשוואה לתפיסת הקראים || Se‘adyā Gaon’s Concept of Biblical Translation in the Light of the Karaite Concept." (Ramat Gan: University of Bar Ilan Press, 2000)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/TC4IGXV2
Liber Psalmorum Dauidis Regis et Prophetae: ex Arabico idiomae in Latinum translatus || ممزامير داوود الملك والنبي Gabriel Sionita and Vittorio Scialac, Liber Psalmorum Dauidis Regis et Prophetae: ex Arabico idiomae in Latinum translatus || ممزامير داوود الملك والنبي (Rome: Ex typographia Sauariana : Excudebat Stephanus Paulinus, 1614)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/IRHBE8AE
الإنجيل المقدس لربنا يسوع المسيح المكتوب من أربع الإنجيليين المقدسين أعني متى ومرقس ولوقا ويوحنا || Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis Sanctis idest, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Iohanne Giovanni Battista Raimondi ed., الإنجيل المقدس لربنا يسوع المسيح المكتوب من أربع الإنجيليين المقدسين أعني متى ومرقس ولوقا ويوحنا || Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis Sanctis idest, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Iohanne (Rome: Typographia Medicea, 1590)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/Q6XLVQJ8
الإنجيل المقدس لربنا يسوع المسيح المكتوب من أربع الإنجيليين المقدسين أعني متى ومرقس ولوقا ويوحنا || Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis Sanctis idest, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Iohanne Giovanni Battista Raimondi ed., الإنجيل المقدس لربنا يسوع المسيح المكتوب من أربع الإنجيليين المقدسين أعني متى ومرقس ولوقا ويوحنا || Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis Sanctis idest, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Iohanne (Rome: In Typographia Medicea, 1591)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/XQSJCELY
Codex Sinai Arabic 151, Pauline Epistles, Part 2 (Rom., I & II Cor., Phil.) [English Translation] Harvey Staal, Codex Sinai Arabic 151, Pauline Epistles, Part 2 (Rom., I & II Cor., Phil.) [English Translation], Studies and documents (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1969)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/E556UVPE
Codex Sinai Arabic 151, Pauline Epistles, Part I (Rom., I & II Cor., Phil.) [Introduction and Arabic text] Harvey Staal, Codex Sinai Arabic 151, Pauline Epistles, Part I (Rom., I & II Cor., Phil.) [Introduction and Arabic text], Studies and documents (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1969)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/VGXHVE8Z
Commentary of Salmon Ben Yeruham on Lamentations Mohammed Abdul-Latif Abdul-Karim, Commentary of Salmon Ben Yeruham on Lamentations (St. Andrews, 1976)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/NWP4L3Q8
Yefet ben ‘Ali’s Commentary on the Hebrew Text of the Book of Job I–X Haider Abbas Hussain, Yefet ben ‘Ali’s Commentary on the Hebrew Text of the Book of Job I–X (St. Andrews, 1986)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/YHM5EDFG
Septuaginta: Societatis Scientiarum Gottingensis auctoritate editit, Vol. 1, Genesis Alfred Rahlfs, Septuaginta: Societatis Scientiarum Gottingensis auctoritate editit, Vol. 1, Genesis vol. 1 (Stuttgart: Priviligierte Würtenbergische Bibelanstalt Stuttgart, 1926)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/QJ9K68G9
Samaritans in Cairo: An Extinct Community Underestimated Haroutin [sic] S. Jamgotchian, "Samaritans in Cairo: An Extinct Community Underestimated."Studies in Judaica (Sydney: Mandelbaum Publishing, 2000)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/GIHYXKXE
A New Group of Manuscripts including an Arabic translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch (ATSP) Haseeb Shehadeh, "A New Group of Manuscripts including an Arabic translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch (ATSP)." (Tel Aviv: Chaim Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies, Tel-Aviv University || בית הספר למדעי היהדות ע"ש חיים רוזנברג, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב, 1991 || תשנ"א)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/CE9PBZVG
Fragments inconnus de la traduction arabe du Pentateuque par Saʿadya al Fayyoumi dans une adaption samaritaine H. S. Jamgotchian, "Fragments inconnus de la traduction arabe du Pentateuque par Saʿadya al Fayyoumi dans une adaption samaritaine." (Tel Aviv: Chaim Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies, Tel-Aviv University || בית הספר למדעי היהדות ע"ש חיים רוזנברג, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב, 1991 || תשנ"א)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/W8Q5Q5Q3
עיבוד מהמאה ה־16 לתרגומו של יפת בן עֵלי הקראי לספר מלאכי || A 16th-Century Reworking of the Karaite Yefet ben Eli’s Translation of the Book of Malachi Eliezer Schlossberg, "עיבוד מהמאה ה־16 לתרגומו של יפת בן עֵלי הקראי לספר מלאכי || A 16th-Century Reworking of the Karaite Yefet ben Eli’s Translation of the Book of Malachi." vol. 1 (Tel Aviv: n. p., 2000)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/XH5V2SX4
Ezekiel and the Minor Prophets Yitzhaq Avishur ed., "Ezekiel and the Minor Prophets." vol. 2 (Tel Aviv–Jaffa: Archaeological Center Publications, 2000)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/Q7ZVEZJU
VII. 5. The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch Haseeb Shehadeh, "VII. 5. The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch." (Tübingen, 1989)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/C23BWXUT
Königspsalmen und karäische Messiaserwartung: Jefet ben Elis Auslegung von Ps 2.72.89.110.132 im Vergleich mit Saadja Gaons Deutung Friedmann Eissler ed., Königspsalmen und karäische Messiaserwartung: Jefet ben Elis Auslegung von Ps 2.72.89.110.132 im Vergleich mit Saadja Gaons Deutung, Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/SY57G7L4
Karaite Exegesis in Medieval Jerusalem: The Judeo-Arabic Pentateuch Commentary of Yūsuf ibn Nūḥ and Abū l-Faraj Hārūn Miriam Goldstein, Karaite Exegesis in Medieval Jerusalem: The Judeo-Arabic Pentateuch Commentary of Yūsuf ibn Nūḥ and Abū l-Faraj Hārūn, Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/UGYPX4QJ
Arabische Übersetzung und Erklärung des XXII. Psalms von R. Jepheth ben Eli ha-Baçri Theodor Hofmann, Arabische Übersetzung und Erklärung des XXII. Psalms von R. Jepheth ben Eli ha-Baçri (Tübingen: Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1880)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/XQ845U6X
Studien zu den arabischen Danielübersetzungen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der christlichen Texte. Nebst einem Beitrag zur Kritik des Peschittatextes Oscar Löfgren, Studien zu den arabischen Danielübersetzungen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der christlichen Texte. Nebst einem Beitrag zur Kritik des Peschittatextes, Uppsala Universitets Årsskrift (Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell Boktryckeri, 1936)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/KRGQKWD6
An Arabic Version of the Gospel According to Mark [Sin. ar. 72] Amy G. Garland, An Arabic Version of the Gospel According to Mark [Sin. ar. 72] (Washington, D.C., 1978)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/3HT7UT3U
לקוטי קדמוניות: לקורות דת בני מקרא והליטעראטור שלהם עפ״י כתבי יד עבריים וערביים || Lickute Kadmoniot. Zur Geschichte des Karaismus und der karäischen Literatur S. Pinsker, לקוטי קדמוניות: לקורות דת בני מקרא והליטעראטור שלהם עפ״י כתבי יד עבריים וערביים || Lickute Kadmoniot. Zur Geschichte des Karaismus und der karäischen Literatur (Wien: Adalbert della Torre, 1860)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/6RTPIANL
A New Unknown Version of the Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch? Haseeb Shehadeh, "A New Unknown Version of the Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch?." (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/WSXAEGQ4
Неопубликованные фрагменты арабских версий самаритянского Пятикнижия из собрания Российской национальной библиотеки. 1. часть: введение, примечания к тексту || Fragments inédits des versions arabes du Pentateuque samaritain Арутюн Жамкочян and Haroutun Jamgotchian, Неопубликованные фрагменты арабских версий самаритянского Пятикнижия из собрания Российской национальной библиотеки. 1. часть: введение, примечания к тексту || Fragments inédits des versions arabes du Pentateuque samaritain (Москва: МИФИ, 1996)URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/6K5URUHE

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jamgotchian, haroutun (7)stroumsa, sarah (5)סטרומזה, שרה (5)hopkins, simon (5)neubauer, adolf (5)frank, daniel (5)khan, geoffrey (5)שחאדה, חסיב (5)hjälm, miriam l. (5)zewi, tamar (5)staal, harvey (5)hjälm, miriam lindgren (5)butbul, sagit (4)בוטבול, שגית (4)הופקינס, סימון (4)fleischer, heinrich leberecht (4)wechsler, michael (4)loewenstamm, ayala (4)בלאו, יהושע (4)arbache, samir (4)kirstenius, petrus (3)schulthess, sara (3)هنانو, ملك (3)tal, abraham (3)merx, adalbert (3)בן־שמאי, חגי (3)hananu, malak (3)bargès, jean joseph léandre (3)reif, stefan (3)alobaidi, joseph (3)skoss, solomon l. (3)قوشاقجي, يوسف (3)gehman, henry snyder (3)فرج, مراد (3)petraeus, theodorus (3)marwick, lawrence (3)avishur, yitzhaq (3)reinke, laurenz (3)vaccari, alberto (3)schlossberg, eliezer (3)nissel, johann georg (3)schröter, r. (3)monferrer-sala, juan pedro (3)vollandt, ronny (3)livne-kafri, ofer (3)ליונשטם, אילה (2)poznański, samuel (2)פלורנטין, משה (2)florentin, moshe (2)شحادة, حسيب (2)chiesa, bruno (2)walfish, barry d. (2)sklare, david (2)gibson, margaret dunlop (2)kuenen, abraham (2)erpenius, thomas (2)dammen mcauliffe, jane (2)graf, georg (2)mann, jacob (2)bekkum, wout jac. van (2)خلف, غسان (2)frank, richard m (2)soncino, eliezer ben gershom (2)baumstark, anton (2)vajda, georges (2)robinson, james t (2)cheikho, louis (2)meinardus, otto (2)eskhult, mats (2)شيخو, لويس (2)blumfield, fiona eve (2)nemoy, leon (2)eytan, eli (2)קיאזה, ברונו (2)adler, jacob georg christian (2)girón, l. f. (2)סקליר, דוד (2)zhamkochyan, arutyun (2)בר־אשר, מאיר מ׳ (2)marmorstein, arthur (2)wechsler, michael g. (2)driver, samuel r. (2)مدروس, بيتر (2)crown, alan d. (2)al-rizzī, sergius (2)khalaf, ghassan (2)kachouh (kashouh), hikmat (2)kahle, paul e. (2)sasson, ilana (2)batat, efrat (2)bar-asher, meir m. (2)goering, joseph w. (2)zaki, vevian (2)farag, morad (murād) (2)לבנה-כפרי, עופר (2)
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Thus

"Jacob+Bishop"~2  
finds three results in which the words "Jacob" and "Bishop" occur within two words of each other: "Jacob , bishop of Nisibin", "Jacob, bishop of Phesilta", and "Jacob , bishop of ‛Ānah" while a simple search for "Jacob Bishop" returns many more results.