The Arabic translation and commentary of Yefet ben ʻEli the Karaite on the Abraham narratives (Genesis 11:10-25:18) / edition and by introduction by Marzena Zawanowska.

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Book
Language
  • English
  • Judeo-Arabic
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Description
xviii, 283, 279 p. 25 cm.

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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language note
Biblical text and commentary in Judeo-Arabic; introd. and critical apparatus in English.
Contents
  • Yefet and his times
  • Who wrote the Torah? Yefet's view on the authorship of the Pentateuch
  • In quest of truth: Yefet's hermeneutic concepts
  • Between the holy text and Its unholy context: polemical overtones in Yefet's commentary on Genesis
  • Scripture as the supreme composition: literary aspects of Yefet's exegesis of Genesis
  • The limits of literalism: Yefet's approach to Bible translation
  • Description of manuscripts employed for the present edition
  • Editing of the manuscripts
  • Signs and abbreviations employed in the critical edition
  • Edition.
ISBN
  • 9789004191310 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9004191313 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011042183
OCLC
756577076
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