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The Arabic Bible from Late Antiquity

The Hexateuch from the Syro-Hexapla


The biblical material translated into Arabic during the Middle Ages included texts from the Hexateuch contained in Codex Sinai Arabic 3, the first in the Christian Arabic Texts series now being published. This set of six texts (Pentateuch + Joshua) is of enormous interest, for what it tells us not only about translating into Arabic, and about the techniques and strategies adopted by the translators, but also about the revisions and reworkings to which the original translations were subjected, and in general about the transmission process undergone by biblical texts in the hands of successive copyists.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-4058-5
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Publication Status: In Print
Publication Date: Apr 30,2021
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Page Count: 384
Language: Arabic
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4058-5
$149.50
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The biblical material translated into Arabic during the Middle Ages included texts from the Hexateuch contained in Codex Sinai Arabic 3, the first in the Christian Arabic Texts series now being published. This set of six texts (Pentateuch + Joshua) is of enormous interest, for what it tells us not only about translating into Arabic, and about the techniques and strategies adopted by the translators, but also about the revisions and reworkings to which the original translations were subjected, and in general about the transmission process undergone by biblical texts in the hands of successive copyists.

The biblical material translated into Arabic during the Middle Ages included texts from the Hexateuch contained in Codex Sinai Arabic 3, the first in the Christian Arabic Texts series now being published. This set of six texts (Pentateuch + Joshua) is of enormous interest, for what it tells us not only about translating into Arabic, and about the techniques and strategies adopted by the translators, but also about the revisions and reworkings to which the original translations were subjected, and in general about the transmission process undergone by biblical texts in the hands of successive copyists.

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ContributorBiography

Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala

Professor Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Ph.D. University of Granada, is specialized in Semitic Studies and teaches in the Faculty of Arts, University of Córdoba. He has published studies of religious texts from early Islam, Christian-Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic materials. He is currently working on the edition and study of Christian-Arabic manuscripts and on Semitic linguistics as well.

Table of Contents (v)
Foreword (vii)
Author, date, place of composition and original language (xi)
Philological description (xix)
Bibliography (lxi)
The Hexateuch from the Syro-Hexapla (1)
   Genesis (3)
   Exodus (97)
   Leviticus (147)
   Numbers (181)
   Deuteronomy (235)
   Joshua (283)

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