The Samaritan Version of Saadya Gaon's Translation of the Pentateuch - Critical Edition and Study of MS London Bl Or7562 and Related Mss

This edition of MS London BL OR7562 and other related Mss., and the accompanying linguistic and philological study, discuss a Samaritan adaptation of Saadya's Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, its main characteristics and place among other early Medieval Arabic Bible translations.

About the author

Tamar Zewi, Ph.D. (1993), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Linguistics at the University of Haifa. Her recent publications are Parenthesis in Biblical Hebrew (Brill, 2007), and Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (associate editor, Brill, 2013).

Product details

• Authors: Tamar Zewi
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2015
• EAN: 9789004277656
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27765-6
• No. of pages: 514
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 918 g
• Series: Biblia Arabica
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations