Marzena Zawanowska, Ph.D. (2007) in Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, and post-doc research fellow in the Diaspora Research Center (Tel Aviv University, 2008/9), is assistant professor in the Department of Hebrew Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, at the University of Warsaw, and in the Center for Jewish Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. She has published mainly on medieval Karaite Bible exegesis, and contributed entries to the Encyclopaedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill, 2010). Currently, she is also head of a major project in publishing Ch. N. Bialik’s (Hebrew and Yiddish) poetry into Polish, as a recipient of a grant sponsored by Foundation for Polish Science.

• PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 Yefet and his TimesChapter 2 Who Wrote the Torah? Yefet’s View on the Authorship of the PentateuchChapter 3 In Quest of Truth: Yefet’s Hermeneutic ConceptsChapter 4 Between the Holy Text and its Unholy Context: Polemical Overtones in Yefet’s Commentary on GenesisChapter 5 Scripture as the Supreme Composition: Literary Aspects of Yefet’s Exegesis of GenesisChapter 6 The Limits of Literalism: Yefet’s Approach to Bible TranslationPART II: INTRODUCTION TO THE CRITICAL EDITIONChapter 7 Description of Manuscripts Employed for the Present EditionChapter 8 Editing of the ManuscriptsChapter 9 Signs and Abbreviations Employed in the Critical EditionPART III: EDITION

Marzena Zawanowska, Ph.D. (2007) in Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, and post-doc research fellow in the Diaspora Research Center (Tel Aviv University, 2008/9), is assistant professor in the Department of Hebrew Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, at the University of Warsaw, and in the Center for Jewish Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. She has published mainly on medieval Karaite Bible exegesis, and contributed entries to the Encyclopaedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill, 2010). Currently, she is also head of a major project in publishing Ch. N. Bialik’s (Hebrew and Yiddish) poetry into Polish, as a recipient of a grant sponsored by Foundation for Polish Science.

• PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 Yefet and his TimesChapter 2 Who Wrote the Torah? Yefet’s View on the Authorship of the PentateuchChapter 3 In Quest of Truth: Yefet’s Hermeneutic ConceptsChapter 4 Between the Holy Text and its Unholy Context: Polemical Overtones in Yefet’s Commentary on GenesisChapter 5 Scripture as the Supreme Composition: Literary Aspects of Yefet’s Exegesis of GenesisChapter 6 The Limits of Literalism: Yefet’s Approach to Bible TranslationPART II: INTRODUCTION TO THE CRITICAL EDITIONChapter 7 Description of Manuscripts Employed for the Present EditionChapter 8 Editing of the ManuscriptsChapter 9 Signs and Abbreviations Employed in the Critical EditionPART III: EDITION

Marzena Zawanowska, Ph.D. (2007) in Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, and post-doc research fellow in the Diaspora Research Center (Tel Aviv University, 2008/9), is assistant professor in the Department of Hebrew Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, at the University of Warsaw, and in the Center for Jewish Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. She has published mainly on medieval Karaite Bible exegesis, and contributed entries to the Encyclopaedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill, 2010). Currently, she is also head of a major project in publishing Ch. N. Bialik’s (Hebrew and Yiddish) poetry into Polish, as a recipient of a grant sponsored by Foundation for Polish Science.

• PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 Yefet and his TimesChapter 2 Who Wrote the Torah? Yefet’s View on the Authorship of the PentateuchChapter 3 In Quest of Truth: Yefet’s Hermeneutic ConceptsChapter 4 Between the Holy Text and its Unholy Context: Polemical Overtones in Yefet’s Commentary on GenesisChapter 5 Scripture as the Supreme Composition: Literary Aspects of Yefet’s Exegesis of GenesisChapter 6 The Limits of Literalism: Yefet’s Approach to Bible TranslationPART II: INTRODUCTION TO THE CRITICAL EDITIONChapter 7 Description of Manuscripts Employed for the Present EditionChapter 8 Editing of the ManuscriptsChapter 9 Signs and Abbreviations Employed in the Critical EditionPART III: EDITION