Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition

Miriam L Hjälm, Ph.D. (2015), is doctor of Semitic Languages and active at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and at Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy. She has published extensively on Christian Arabic Bible traditions, including Christian Arabic Versions of Daniel (Brill, 2016).

• About the AuthorsIntroductionPart 1: The Bible in ContextFrom Theodore Abū Qurra to Abed Azrié: The Arabic Bible in ContextAlexander TreigerApocrypha on Jesus’ Life in the Early Islamic Milieu: From Syriac into ArabicCornelia B. HornThe Spirit Before the Letter: Theodore Abū Qurra’s Use of Biblical Quotations in the Context of Early Christian Arabic ApologeticsPeter TarrasNinth-Century Judeo-Arabic Texts of Biblical Questions and AnswersDavid SklareAn Anonymous Mozarab Translator at WorkGeoffrey K. MartinReligion in an Age of Reason: Reading Divine Attributes into the Medieval Karaite Bible Translations of Scriptural TextsMarzena ZawanowskaThe Biographical Stories of the Prophets in the Writing of Yefet ben ʿEliMeirav Nadler-AkiravSamaritan Bible Exegesis and its Significance for Judeo-Arabic StudiesFrank WeigeltWhat Hath Rome to do with Seville? Exploring the Latin-to-Arabic Translation of the Gospel of Matthew in Ibn Barrajān’s (d. 536/1141) Qurʾān CommentaryRoy Michael McCoy IIIAspects of Abraham Maimuni’s Attitude towards Christians in His Commentary on Genesis 36Naḥem IlanIsmāʿīl Qazvīnī: A Twelfth/Eighteenth-Century Jewish Convert to Imāmī Šīʿism and His Critique of Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the Four Kingdoms (Daniel 2:31–45)Dennis Halft OPAl-Shidyāq-Lee Version (1857): An Example of a Non-Synchronous Nineteenth-Century Arabic BibleRana H. IssaPart 2: Translating TraditionA Mid-Ninth-Century Arabic Translation of Isaiah? Glimpses from al-JāḥiẓNathan P. GibsonGeographica neotestamentica: Adapting Place Names in Arabic in an Andalusi Version of the Gospel of MarkJuan Pedro Monferrer-SalaThe Textual History of the Arabic Pauline Epistles: One Version, Three Recensions, Six ManuscriptsVevian ZakiTranslation Technique in the Epistle to the Hebrews as Edited by Edvard Stenij from Codex TischendorfMats EskhultIslamic Terminology, the Epithets and Names Used for God, and Proper Nouns in Yefet Ben ʿEli’s Translation of the Book of Job in Judeo-ArabicArik SadanThe Major Prophets in Arabic: The Authorship of Pethiōn Revisited in Light of New FindingsMiriam L. HjälmPart 3: Hitherto Unpublished TextsThree Fragments of Saʿadya Gaon’s Arabic Translation of Isaiah Copied by the Court Scribe Joseph ben Samuel (c. 1181–1209)Amir Ashur, Sivan Nir, Meira PolliackYefet ben ʿEli’s Introduction to His Commentary on the Book of ProverbsIlana SassonA Newly Discovered Karaite Arabic Translation of Genesis and Exodus (Undertext of the Palimpsest Sinai Gr. 930)Alexander TreigerIndex of NamesIndex of ManuscriptsIndex of Biblical and Qurʾān Verses