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Benjamin H. Hary

Translating Religion: Linguistic Analysis of Judeo-Arabic Sacred Texts from Egypt

English · Hardback

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Description

This volume is a study of translation of sacred texts, known as the shara,, into Judeo-Arabic in Egypt in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book provides a linguistic model of the translation, which traces the literal/interpretive linguistic tension with which the translators struggled.

Product details

Authors	Benjamin H. Hary
Publisher	Brill

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	01.03.2009

EAN	9789004173828
ISBN	978-90-04-17382-8
No. of pages	384
Series	Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéva
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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