1st Edition
Japheth ben Ali's Book of Jeremiah A Critical Edition and Linguistic Analysis of the Judaeo-Arabic Translation
By Joshua A. Sabih
Copyright 2009
516 Pages
by
Routledge
516 Pages
by
Routledge
516 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume deals with three themes: medieval Judaism, Arabic and Hebrew sociolinguistics, and Arabic Bible translation. Within Medieval Judaism, the Karaite Jews became a prosperous community under the banners of Islam. One of the most salient signs of the Karaite community's strength and internal cohesion was the extensive scientific contribution that it made to the fields of Biblical studies,... Read more
Part I IntroductionChapter I: Middle ArabicChapter II: Judaeo-ArabicChapter III: The Linguistic Status and Cultural Function of the Medieval Judaeo-Arabic LanguageChapter IV: The Function of Scripts in Medieval Arabic ScriptolectConclusionPart IIThe Critical Edition and Linguistic AnalysisDescription of the manuscriptsDescription of the Hebrew Text in Arabic scriptThe Edited TextTranslationOrthography and PhoneticsMorpho-syntaxDiscursive Analysis
Biography
Joshua A. Sabih is a Moroccan-Danish scholar. He is lecturer in Jewish, Islamic Studies and Semitic Philology at the Carsten Niebuhr Department of Middle Eastern Studies, TORS Institute, University of Copenhagen.
"The work's importance for the field of biblical studies goes considerably beyond the very solid benefits from this critical edition of Jeremiah. It adds much to the history of the Bible's reception in an area which has been much neglected in biblical studies." - Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament
