An Early Arabic Translation of Exodus 15 from a Palestinian Melkite Psalter in the Cairo GenizahCollectanea Christiana OrientaliaSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/ARUHDHMS/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.NickPosegayAn Early Arabic Translation of Exodus 15 from a Palestinian Melkite Psalter in the Cairo Genizahhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/ARUHDHMShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/ARUHDHMShttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/ARUHDHMSCollectanea Christiana Orientalia21202497-120This article presents an Arabic translation of Exodus 15 from the Cairo Genizah, preserved in two fragments of a Christian Psalter (MSS CUL T-S NS 305.198 and T-S NS 305.210). The style of the Psalter’s Arabic script suggests that it was copied by a well-trained scribe in the late 9th or early 10th century. Such a date makes it the oldest Christian Arabic Bible translation yet found in the Genizah. Linguistic analysis further indicates that its translator had access to both the Peshitta and the Septuagint of Exodus 15 during their work. Most likely, this translator was a ninth-century Palestinian Melkite who spoke Syriac and Arabic.
Posegay, Nick. “An Early Arabic Translation of Exodus 15 from a Palestinian Melkite Psalter in the Cairo Genizah.” Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 21 (2024): 97–120.
Nick Posegay, An Early Arabic Translation of Exodus 15 from a Palestinian Melkite Psalter in the Cairo Genizah,Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 21 (2024): 97–120.