Flawed Biblical Translations into Arabic and How to Correct Them: A Copt and a Jew Study Saadiah’s Tafsīr

Vollandt, Ronny (2019): Flawed Biblical Translations into Arabic and How to Correct Them: A Copt and a Jew Study Saadiah’s Tafsīr. In: Bertaina, David; Toenies Keating, Sandra; Swanson, Mark N. und Treiger, Alexander (eds.) : Heirs of the Apostles. Studies on Arabic Christianity in Honor of Sidney H. Griffith. Arabic Christianity, Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 59-92

Abstract

The contribution offers the edition, translation and discussion of a neglected document that mirrors the close interaction between the Coptic and Jewish communities in the social and professional spheres of Ayyūbid Cairo. It was found at the start of two manuscripts of Saadiah’s (882–942 CE) Tafsīr, written by a Coptic scholar more than three hundred years after this text was written. The document describes how the Copt invited a distinguished member of the Jewish community of Old Cairo, someone with whom he had obviously established a personal relationship over a series of meetings, to help him copy a manuscript as accurately as possible and establish the correct transmitted text.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Faculties: Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies; Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies > Jewish studies > Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures Blog; Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies > Jewish studies
• Subjects: 200 Religion > 220 Bible; 200 Religion > 290 Other religions; 400 Language > 490 Other languages
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38386-9
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Language: English