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Clavis of the Arabic Bible A clavis of all surviving textual testimonies that will allow scholars easy navigation through the corpus and encourage them to take into consideration the full range of evidence is under development…
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Bibliography of the Arabic Bible: a Classified and Annotated History of Scholarship Provides a comprehensive and fully annotated bibliography of text editions and research in the field of Arabic Bible… Access
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“…for the Benefit of the poor Christians of the Eastern Nations…” – Printing the Psalter and New Testament in Arabic in Eighteenth-Century London
by Paula Manstetten In the 1720s, an Anglican society in London printed a staggering 6,000 Psalters and 10,000 New Testaments in Arabic with the aim of distributing them among the Christians of the Middle East. The Society for Promoting Christian … Continued
Reading and Writing the Book of Samuel in Spoken Egyptian Arabic
by Nick Posegay Some of the most important tools for medieval Bible translators were translation glossaries. These texts are short lexicographical works, more specialised than complete lexica, that give translations for individual words in a particular Biblical text. Many are … Continued
‘Hastening after the Glimmer of Dawn’: A Personal Judaeo-Arabic Translation of Ecclesiastes
by Estara J Arrant The intellectually rich, culturally vibrant, and linguistically diverse world reflected in the Cairo Genizah fostered the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Arabic. Most well-known are the translation works of great intellectuals such as Sa‘adya Gaon … Continued
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 Review Essay by Meira Polliack “And you think That I don’t even mean A single word I say It’s only words And words are all I have to take your heart away”.[1] Celebrating a new book by Robert Alter … Continued
Judaeo-Arabic Bible Translation and the Tiberian Masoretic Tradition
by Joseph Habib Introduction The great textual critic Dominique Barthélemy (1921–2002) lamented the fact that scholars of the time were too quick to render a difficult passage in the Masoretic Text as corrupt or unintelligible. The Masoretic Text refers to … Continued
Travelling in Translation with Biblical Characters
by Meira Polliack Even amateur gardeners like myself recognize that plants don’t manage transitions easily. Some robust shrubs dry up in the best conditions of light or water. Yet, when transplanted in different soil, or in a discreet corner of … Continued
Do Arabic Gospel manuscripts matter for Textual Criticism?
Fig 1. CSA f. 28r. Mt 18:11 is omitted. I thank Father Justin for giving permission to use this image. Arabic versions of the Bible have been frequently overlooked in New Testament textual criticism because of the belief that the … Continued
