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Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition
The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims
Series: - Biblia Arabica, Volume: 5
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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 era to the present day. In this volume, edited by Miriam L. Hjälm, scholars from different fields have joined forces to illuminate various aspects of the Bible in Arabic: it depicts the characteristics of this abundant and diverse textual heritage, describes how the biblical message was made relevant for communities in the Near East and makes hitherto unpublished Arabic texts available. It also shows how various communities interacted in their choice of shared terminology and topics, and how Arabic Bible translations moved from one religious community to another.
Contributors include: Amir Ashur, Mats Eskhult, Nathan Gibson, Dennis Halft, Miriam L. Hjälm, Cornelia Horn, Naḥem Ilan, Rana H. Issa, Geoffrey K. Martin, Roy Michael McCoy III, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Meirav Nadler-Akirav, Sivan Nir, Meira Polliack, Arik Sadan, Ilana Sasson, David Sklare, Peter Tarras, Alexander Treiger, Frank Weigelt, Vevian Zaki, Marzena Zawanowska.
Contributors include: Amir Ashur, Mats Eskhult, Nathan Gibson, Dennis Halft, Miriam L. Hjälm, Cornelia Horn, Naḥem Ilan, Rana H. Issa, Geoffrey K. Martin, Roy Michael McCoy III, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Meirav Nadler-Akirav, Sivan Nir, Meira Polliack, Arik Sadan, Ilana Sasson, David Sklare, Peter Tarras, Alexander Treiger, Frank Weigelt, Vevian Zaki, Marzena Zawanowska.
Miriam L Hjälm, Ph.D. (2015), is doctor of Semitic Languages and active at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and at Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy. She has published extensively on Christian Arabic Bible traditions, including Christian Arabic Versions of Daniel (Brill, 2016).
About the Authors
Introduction
From Theodore Abū Qurra to Abed Azrié: The Arabic Bible in Context
âAlexander Treiger
Apocrypha on Jesusâ Life in the Early Islamic Milieu: From Syriac into Arabic
âCornelia B. Horn
The Spirit Before the Letter: Theodore AbÅ« Qurraâs Use of Biblical Quotations in the Context of Early Christian Arabic Apologetics
âPeter Tarras
Ninth-Century Judeo-Arabic Texts of Biblical Questions and Answers
âDavid Sklare
An Anonymous Mozarab Translator at Work
âGeoffrey K. Martin
Religion in an Age of Reason: Reading Divine Attributes into the Medieval Karaite Bible Translations of Scriptural Texts
âMarzena Zawanowska
The Biographical Stories of the Prophets in the Writing of Yefet ben Ê¿Eli
âMeirav Nadler-Akirav
Samaritan Bible Exegesis and its Significance for Judeo-Arabic Studies
âFrank Weigelt
What Hath Rome to do with Seville? Exploring the Latin-to-Arabic Translation of the Gospel of Matthew in Ibn BarrajÄnâs (d. 536/1141) QurʾÄn Commentary
âRoy Michael McCoy III
Aspects of Abraham Maimuniâs Attitude towards Christians in His Commentary on Genesis 36
âNaḥem Ilan
IsmÄÊ¿Ä«l QazvÄ«nÄ«: A Twelfth/Eighteenth-Century Jewish Convert to ImÄmÄ« Å Ä«Ê¿ism and His Critique of Ibn Ezraâs Commentary on the Four Kingdoms (Daniel 2:31â45)
âDennis Halft OP
Al-ShidyÄq-Lee Version (1857): An Example of a Non-Synchronous Nineteenth-Century Arabic Bible
âRana H. Issa
Introduction
Part 1: The Bible in Context
From Theodore Abū Qurra to Abed Azrié: The Arabic Bible in Context
âAlexander Treiger
Apocrypha on Jesusâ Life in the Early Islamic Milieu: From Syriac into Arabic
âCornelia B. Horn
The Spirit Before the Letter: Theodore AbÅ« Qurraâs Use of Biblical Quotations in the Context of Early Christian Arabic Apologetics
âPeter Tarras
Ninth-Century Judeo-Arabic Texts of Biblical Questions and Answers
âDavid Sklare
An Anonymous Mozarab Translator at Work
âGeoffrey K. Martin
Religion in an Age of Reason: Reading Divine Attributes into the Medieval Karaite Bible Translations of Scriptural Texts
âMarzena Zawanowska
The Biographical Stories of the Prophets in the Writing of Yefet ben Ê¿Eli
âMeirav Nadler-Akirav
Samaritan Bible Exegesis and its Significance for Judeo-Arabic Studies
âFrank Weigelt
What Hath Rome to do with Seville? Exploring the Latin-to-Arabic Translation of the Gospel of Matthew in Ibn BarrajÄnâs (d. 536/1141) QurʾÄn Commentary
âRoy Michael McCoy III
Aspects of Abraham Maimuniâs Attitude towards Christians in His Commentary on Genesis 36
âNaḥem Ilan
IsmÄÊ¿Ä«l QazvÄ«nÄ«: A Twelfth/Eighteenth-Century Jewish Convert to ImÄmÄ« Å Ä«Ê¿ism and His Critique of Ibn Ezraâs Commentary on the Four Kingdoms (Daniel 2:31â45)
âDennis Halft OP
Al-ShidyÄq-Lee Version (1857): An Example of a Non-Synchronous Nineteenth-Century Arabic Bible
âRana H. Issa
Part 2: Translating Tradition
A Mid-Ninth-Century Arabic Translation of Isaiah? Glimpses from al-JaÌhÌ£izÌ£
âNathan P. Gibson
Geographica neotestamentica: Adapting Place Names in Arabic in an Andalusi Version of the Gospel of Mark
âJuan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
The Textual History of the Arabic Pauline Epistles: One Version, Three Recensions, Six Manuscripts
âVevian Zaki
Translation Technique in the Epistle to the Hebrews as Edited by Edvard Stenij from Codex Tischendorf
âMats Eskhult
Islamic Terminology, the Epithets and Names Used for God, and Proper Nouns in Yefet Ben Ê¿Eliâs Translation of the Book of Job in Judeo-Arabic
âArik Sadan
The Major Prophets in Arabic: The Authorship of PethiÅn Revisited in Light of New Findings
âMiriam L. Hjälm
Part 3: Hitherto Unpublished Texts
Three Fragments of SaÊ¿adya Gaonâs Arabic Translation of Isaiah Copied by the Court Scribe Joseph ben Samuel (c. 1181â1209)
âAmir Ashur, Sivan Nir, Meira Polliack
Yefet ben Ê¿Eliâs Introduction to His Commentary on the Book of Proverbs
âIlana Sasson
A Newly Discovered Karaite Arabic Translation of Genesis and Exodus (Undertext of the Palimpsest Sinai Gr. 930)
âAlexander Treiger
Index of Names
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Biblical and QurʾÄn Verses
All interested in the Bible in Arabic, Bible interpretation and translation history and anyone concerned with religious interaction and the Near East.