The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ʿEli the Karaite on the Abraham Narratives (Genesis 11:10–25:18)
Edition and Introduction. Karaite Texts and Studies, Volume 4
Biographical note
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.
Readership
The volume is especially relevant to the scholars interested in the history and development of medieval Bible exegesis.
Table of contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Yefet and his Times
Chapter 2 Who Wrote the Torah? Yefet’s View on the Authorship of the Pentateuch
Chapter 3 In Quest of Truth: Yefet’s Hermeneutic Concepts
Chapter 4 Between the Holy Text and its Unholy Context: Polemical Overtones in Yefet’s Commentary on Genesis
Chapter 5 Scripture as the Supreme Composition: Literary Aspects of Yefet’s Exegesis of Genesis
Chapter 6 The Limits of Literalism: Yefet’s Approach to Bible Translation
PART II: INTRODUCTION TO THE CRITICAL EDITION
Chapter 7 Description of Manuscripts Employed for the Present Edition
Chapter 8 Editing of the Manuscripts
Chapter 9 Signs and Abbreviations Employed in the Critical Edition
PART III: EDITION
Chapter 1 Yefet and his Times
Chapter 2 Who Wrote the Torah? Yefet’s View on the Authorship of the Pentateuch
Chapter 3 In Quest of Truth: Yefet’s Hermeneutic Concepts
Chapter 4 Between the Holy Text and its Unholy Context: Polemical Overtones in Yefet’s Commentary on Genesis
Chapter 5 Scripture as the Supreme Composition: Literary Aspects of Yefet’s Exegesis of Genesis
Chapter 6 The Limits of Literalism: Yefet’s Approach to Bible Translation
PART II: INTRODUCTION TO THE CRITICAL EDITION
Chapter 7 Description of Manuscripts Employed for the Present Edition
Chapter 8 Editing of the Manuscripts
Chapter 9 Signs and Abbreviations Employed in the Critical Edition
PART III: EDITION
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