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September 2017
Biblia Arabica Series, volume 5
Volume 5 of the Biblia Arabica series is now available online and in print from Brill: Hjälm, Miriam L. Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition: The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Biblia Arabica 5. Leiden: Brill, 2017. DOI: 10.1163/9789004347403. ISBN: 9789004347403 (online), 9789004347168 (print). From the publisher: Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition offers recent findings on the reception, translation and use of the Bible in Arabic among Jews, Samaritans, Christians and Muslims from the early Islamic…
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The Binding of Isaac: Isaac or Ishmael?
Iqbal Abd El-Raziq with Prof. Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University)
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Scholarship Ceremony in Memory of Dr. Ilana Sasson Z”L
The Department of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University cordially invites you to the ceremony of granting a scholarship in memory of Dr. Ilana Sasson Z”L on Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 2–4 PM, at the Rosenberg Building, Hall 01. Please see details in the attached flyer. PDF: Ilana Sasson Memorial Scholarship Ceremony
Find out more »A Status Quaestionis of Research in the Arabic Bible
A Status Quaestionis of Research on the Arabic Bible can be found here https://www.academia.edu/36384637/The_Status_Quaestionis_of_Research_on_the_Arabic_Bible Published in Semitic Linguistics and Manuscripts : A Liber Discipulorum in Honour of Professor Geoffrey Khan, eds. Nadia Vidro, Ronny Vollandt, Esther-Miriam Wagner, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 30. Available to download (open access): http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1192909/FULLTEXT01.pdf A paperback version will also be available soon for purchase: http://acta.mamutweb.com/Shop/List/-Studia-Semitica-Upsaliensia-ISSN-0585-5535/74/1
Find out more »May 2018
“The One with the Mantle” – Dhū al-Kifl in Early and Classical Muslim Sources: An Etymological Examination
Iqbal Abd El-Raziq (Tel Aviv University) presented "'The One with the Mantle' – Dhū al-Kifl in Early and Classical Muslim Sources: An Etymological Examination" at the international conference "Polemics and Prophethood in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" organized by the Sigi Feigel Visiting Professorship for Jewish Studies and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Zurich, where the conference was held. Download Conference Program
Find out more »July 2018
SBL/EABS 2018 Program
The Research Group "The Bible in Arabic in Judaism, Christianity, Islam" will be hosting sessions on commentary literature and translation and interpretation at the European Association of Biblical Studies/Society of Biblical Literature International conference. The sessions will be hosted jointly with The Biblia Arabica Consultation (SBL) and members of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA). Program The Bible in Arabic in Judaism, Christianity, Islam (EABS) Joint Session With: The Bible in Arabic in Judaism, Christianity, Islam (EABS), Biblia Arabica: The…
Find out more »October 2018
Biblia Arabica Team Meets with Partners in Athens to Discuss Cataloguing of Mt. Sinai Manuscripts
Three members of the Biblia Arabica team joined discussions last weekend in Athens aimed at developing a proposal to catalogue and describe the hundreds of Arabic and Syriac manuscripts in St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, the oldest continuously operating library in the world. These manuscripts include many of the earliest attested Bible translations into Arabic. They are currently being digitized through a collaboration between St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL), and the UCLA…
Find out more »An introduction to Judaeo-Arabic bible translations with an emphasis on the Karaite bible translator and commentator Yefet Ben Eli
Dr. Arik Sadan (Tel Aviv/Jerusalem) presented "An introduction to Judaeo-Arabic bible translations with an emphasis on the Karaite bible translator and commentator Yefet Ben Eli" in the conference "Bibeluebersetzungen in sprachvergleichender Perspektive." (Click to download the program.)
Find out more »April 2019
Christian Arabic Approaches to Psalms: Reception, Novelty, and Jewish-Christian Interaction
Dr. Miriam Lindgren Hjälm (Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy and Stockholm School of Theology) will present "Christian Arabic Approaches to Psalms: Reception, Novelty, and Jewish-Christian Interaction" at Tel Aviv University's Department of Biblical Studies in the Guest Lectures of the Departmental Research Seminar 2018/19, “Between ‘Literal Exegesis’ (peshat) and ‘Biblical Criticism’ (bikoret): New Paths in the Study of Medieval Biblical Exegesis,” convened by Prof. Meira Polliack. (Download Flyer)
Find out more »January 2020
Recently Published: Jewish Biblical Exegesis from Islamic Lands. The Medieval Period.
Meira Polliack and Athalya Brenner-Idan, editors An accessible point of entry into the rich medieval religious landscape of Jewish biblical exegesis Medieval Judeo-Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible and their commentaries provide a rich source for understanding a formative period in the intellectual, literary, and cultural history and heritage of Jews in Islamic lands. The carefully selected texts in this volume offer intriguing insight into Arabic translations and commentaries by Rabbanite and Karaite Jewish exegetes from the tenth to the…
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