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...

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Subtitles:The Hexateuch from the Syro-Hexapla
Contributors: Monferrer-Sala, Juan Pedro 1962- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Arabic
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Published: Piscataway, NJ, USA Gorgias Press 2021
In: Biblical and Apocryphal Christian Arabic texts (1)
Year: 2021
Series/Journal:Biblical and Apocryphal Christian Arabic texts 1
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bible. Hexateuch / Syrohexapla / Translation / Arabic language
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Bible. Old Testament Syriac Versions Syro-Hexapla Translating
B Bible. Hexateuch Arabic Versions Codex Sinai Arabic 3
B Bible. Hexateuch Translating
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Summary:"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 revi-sions 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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (Seiten lxi-lxvii)
ISBN:1463240589