A Biblical Translation in the Making: The Evolution and Impact of Saadia Gaon’s Tafsīr (Harvard Center for Jewish Studies (HAR)) - Hardcover

Steiner, Richard C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674033353 ISBN 13: 9780674033351

Verlag: Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, 2011

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The Evolution and Impact of Saadia Gaon's Tafs?r

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Reseña del editor:

In his youth, R. Saadia Gaon (882-942 CE) dreamed of publishing a proper translation of the "Torah" for Arabic-speaking Jews, to replace the overly literal ones in vogue at the time. His dream was fulfilled with the issuing of the "Tafsir", the most important Jewish Bible translation of the Middle Ages. In this monograph, Richard C. Steiner traces the history of the "Tafsir" - its roots, its modest beginnings, and its subsequent evolution. He argues that the first edition was an annotated translation prepared while Saadia was a student in Tiberias and that a page from a copy of it has survived in the Cairo Genizah. Steiner pays particular attention to the history of two innovative features of the translation that were useful in dealing with Muslim polemicists but distasteful to many Jews. These two features, one stylistic and one theological/philological, reflect the intellectual context in which Saadia worked; indeed, they are adumbrated in treatments of the Bible by two prominent Muslim scholars of the ninth century, Ibn Qutayba and Al-Jahiz.

Biografía del autor:

Robert C. Steiner is Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures at Yeshiva University.

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• Verlag: Harvard Center for Jewish Studies
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0674033353
• ISBN 13: 9780674033351
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198