Differences and Similarities between Early Christian and Judaeo-Arabic (Rabbinical and Karaite) Translations of the Bible into Arabic: The Case of the Book of Job
This paper compares three 9th-10th century translations of the frame story of the book of Job, namely the Rabbinical Judaeo-Arabic translation of Saadia Gaon, the Karaite Judaeo-Arabic translation of Yefet b. Ali and a Christian translation by ?ūmā al-Fusṭāṭī. Whereas Saadia's translation is fu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2018]
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The journal of Eastern Christian studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 70, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 7-33 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Job
/ Translation
/ Arabic language
/ Christianity
/ Judaism
/ History 800-1000
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism HB Old Testament KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa |
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| Summary: | This paper compares three 9th-10th century translations of the frame story of the book of Job, namely the Rabbinical Judaeo-Arabic translation of Saadia Gaon, the Karaite Judaeo-Arabic translation of Yefet b. Ali and a Christian translation by ?ūmā al-Fusṭāṭī. Whereas Saadia's translation is fully available in a critical edition, the other two translations are accessible only in manuscripts. The three translations are studied and compared from a syntactic and a lexical perspective in order to assess the specific character of each translation and the relationship between the source and the target languages. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1520 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Eastern Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/JECS.70.1.3284664 |