התרגום הערבי לנוסח התורה של השומרונים. מבוא למהדורה ביקורתית || The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch. Prolegomena to a Critical Edition

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שחאדה, חסיב, and Haseeb Shehadeh. “התרגום הערבי לנוסח התורה של השומרונים. מבוא למהדורה ביקורתית || The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch. Prolegomena to a Critical Edition.” Ph.D. Thesis, Hebrew University, 1977.

Abstract

This unpublished doctoral dissertation, which was to lay the necessary groundwork for the author’s subsequent critcal edtion https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/IZFNRHBX, is the most comprehensive study on the Arabic translations of the Samaritan Pentateuch to date. Although other important works on certain aspects of the topic have appeared more recently and some of the author’s judgements have been called into question, it still provides a useful framework for the study and classification of manuscripts and contains many valuable observations. Most of the results of the thesis were presented afterwards in a number of articles by the author. The first chapters deal with preliminary issues that have direct or indirect bearing on the question when and how the Samaritan Pentateuch was translated into Arabic: the replacement of Aramaic by Arabic as a spoken and written language in the Samaritan community and the roles of the Samaritan scholars Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī and Abū Saʿīd in the creation of the translation. The author states that by the 11th century, the need for an Arabic translation must have made itself felt. Abū al-Ḥasan, who is traditionally held to be the translator, may well have undertaken such a task for the whole of the Pentateuch, even though no clear-cut evidence can be adduced. Abū Saʿīd, on the other hand, made a revision of an existing translation during the 13th century. The author then proceeds to the analysis of the textual evidence and concludes that the manuscripts contain different types of translations: (1) An old type, transmitted in multilingual manuscripts in Samaritan script. The oldest dated example is MS: Nablus, Samaritan Synagogue, 6 (1204 C. E.). Saadian influence is, in Shehadeh’s opinion, very limited in this text type. (2) Abū Saʿīd’s revised text, of which MS: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ar. 5. is the prime example. His aquaintance with Saadiah’s translation can be shown, though mainly in the avoidance of agreement in wording. (3) Composite versions of the old and the revised text. MS: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Or. 139, which contains partly a Samaritan text and partly an adaption of Saadiah's translation, is also counted among this group, but not consistently in all parts of the dissertation. (4) An adaptation of Saadiah’s translation, as represented by MS: London, British Library, Or. 7562. This classification was later subject to some changes and expansions in other publications by the author. The last chapters contain a bibliographical survey of previous editions of the Samaritan Arabic translation and descriptions of the manuscripts perused by the author. The thesis was submitted in three typescript volumes. Vol. 1 (called "Part A") contains the main text and a detailed English summary, vol. 2 (111 pp.) contains the endnotes to the text, and vol. 3 (101 pp.) contains a handwritten preliminary edition of Leviticus 1-10 with introductory remarks on the manuscripts and the rules of transcription. Reviews on Shehadeh’s dissertation have been written by Girón https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/7XXC4FJ8, Macuch https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/9D33XESQ, Baillet https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/5W3RBW74 and Margain https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/VDZY6INM.

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Title: התרגום הערבי לנוסח התורה של השומרונים. מבוא למהדורה ביקורתית || The Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch. Prolegomena to a Critical Edition

Author: חסיב שחאדה

Author: Haseeb Shehadeh

URI: https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/QEBUX9IC  Link to Biblia Arabica bibliography Bibliographic Record.

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Place of Publication: Jerusalem

Date of Publication: 1977

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Subject Headings

Old Testament  Jewish  Samaritan  Pentateuch  Hebrew  Abū Saʿīd  Saadiah Gaon 

Cited Manuscripts

Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Or. Fol. 534  Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Or. Qu. 1082  Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Petermann I 3  Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, Add. 714  Cambridge, Girton College, 11  Cambridge, Girton College, 8  Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Or. 112 (formerly 21)  Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, Ar. 1088  Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Sam. 2° 1  Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Sam. 8° 46  Kiel, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. 14  Leiden, University of Leiden Library, Or. 1222  London, British Library, Add. 17553  London, British Library, Add. 19011  London, British Library, Or. 10318  London, British Library, Or. 10754  London, British Library, Or. 1441  London, British Library, Or. 1446  London, British Library, Or. 1450  London, British Library, Or. 2688  London, British Library, Or. 5036  London, British Library, Or. 7562  Manchester, John Rylands Library, Sam. 2  Manchester, John Rylands Library, Sam. 33 (= Gaster 1861)  Manchester, John Rylands Library, Sam. 376 (formerly Sassoon 404)  Manchester, John Rylands Library, Sam. 38 (= Gaster 814)  Manchester, John Rylands Library, Sam. 39 (= Gaster 1135)  Manchester, John Rylands Library, Sam. 40 (= Gaster 1883)  Nablus, Private Collection Ṣadok b. Abishaʿ b. Pinḥas ha-Kohen, MS: Nablus, Private Collection Ṣadok b. Abishaʿ b. Pinḥas ha-Kohen  Nablus, Samaritan Synagogue, 15  Nablus, Samaritan Synagogue, 18  Nablus, Samaritan Synagogue, 20  Nablus, Samaritan Synagogue, 4  Nablus, Samaritan Synagogue, 6  Nablus, Samaritan Synagogue, 8  New York, Jewish Theological Seminary, Adler 1352  New York, Jewish Theological Seminary, Adler 1808  Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Or. 139  Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Or. 345  Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Sam. B. 2  Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Sam. B. 3  Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Sam. B. 6  Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Sam. C. 2  Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Sam. C. 4  Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ar. 5  Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ar. 6  Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ar. 7  Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ar. 8 (= Ancien fonds 12)  Sassoon 71, , MS: Sassoon 71  St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Sam. IIa 179  Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barberini Or. 1 
 

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