Details

Subject(s)

• Karaites [Browse]
• Bible Proverbs—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]

Translator

• Sasson, Ilana [Browse]

Editor

• Wechsler, Michael G. [Browse]

Series

• Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 95. [More in this series]
• Karaite texts and studies ; v. 14. [More in this series]
• Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval ; tome XCV
• Karaite texts and studies ; volume 14 [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume contains an English translation of the Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Proverbs composed by one of the most acclaimed, innovative, and prolific exegetes of the Karaite "Golden Age" (10th-11th centuries), Yefet ben 'Eli ha-Levi. A critical edition and an extensive introduction was published by Ilana Sasson as vol. 1 (KTS 8) in 2016. Dr. Sasson worked for many years on an English translation of the work and, before her untimely death in 2017, passed her unfinished manuscript to the series editors. The translation was then completed, edited, and prepared for publication by Dr. Wechsler. Yefet's commentary on Proverbs is a masterpiece of literary and rational-contextual analysis of one of the most difficult and important books of wisdom in the Hebrew Bible. His work is an invaluable link in the history of interpretation of the book of Proverbs.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

Majority of text in English, also contains text of Proverbs in Hebrew and short excerpts from Judeo-Arabic commentary, mainly in transliteration.

Other title(s)

Bible. Proverbs. Judeo-Arabic. Japheth ben Ali.

ISBN

• 9789004537606 (hardcover)
• 9004537600 (hardcover)

OCLC

1371244050

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