Volume 3 of our critical edition of the Arragel Bible presents Arragelâs exegetical commentary on the book of Genesis in the form of marginal glosses, with extensive notes on the biblical interpretations excerpted from his rabbinic and medieval Jewish sources (exegetical, philological, philosophical, Kabbalistic), the patristic and medieval sources of the doctrinal and exegetical excursus drawn from patristic and medieval sources added at the behest of his Christian collaborators, his linguistic predilections in matters of lexicon, morphology and syntax, and the literary features of his didactic prose in its Ibero-Romance context. It also includes a comprehensive Glossary of rare voices from the Prologue and Genesis materials.
Francisco Javier Pueyo Mena is a senior researcher at the CSIC who works on Medieval Spanish and Judeo-Spanish philology. He has published several articles and editions of Jewish biblical translations, including the volume Biblia Romanceada. BNE. Ms. 10288 (HSMS, 1996).
Ãngel Saenz Badillos (1940 â 2013) was a professor of Hebrew literature at the Complutense University in Madrid and the leading Iberian Hebraist of his generation, with seminal publications on medieval Hebrew poetry, Semitic philology, and Jewish Bible interpretation.
Scholars, students, and readers in the following fields: Jewish studies, Spanish literature, Romance historical linguistics, Bible translation and interpretation, the European Middle Ages, medieval philosophy, Jewish-Christian relations, and religious studies.