The Book of conviviality in exile (Kitāb al-īnās bi-'l-jalwa) : the Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary of Saadia Gaon on the Book of Esther /

The Book of conviviality in exile (Kitāb al-īnās bi-'l-jalwa) : the Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary of Saadia Gaon on the Book of Esther /

This volume presents a critical edition of the Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Esther by Saadia Gaon (882-942). This edition, accompanied by an introduction and extensively annotated English translation, affords access to the first-known personalized, rationalistic Jewish com...

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Main Author: Wechsler, Michael G.

Other Authors: Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Judeo-Arabic

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2015.

Series: Biblia Arabica 1.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287464.

Subjects:

Saʻadia ben Joseph, > 882-942. > Kitab al-Īnās bi-al-jalwah.
Bible. > Esther > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
Bible. > Esther > Commentaries > Early works to 1800.

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Call Number: BS1375.52 .W43 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Overview
  • Methods and Themes in Saadia's Exegesis of Esther
  • Publication History
  • Written Witnesses Employed for the Present Edition
  • Editorial Method
  • Some Methodological Remarks on the Annotated English Translation
  • Signs, Sigla, and Abbreviations
  • The Title and the Introduction
  • The First Section (al-Qiṣṣat al-ūlā)
  • The Second Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-thāniyya)
  • The Third Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-thālitha)
  • The Fourth Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-rābiʿa)
  • The Fifth Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-khāmisa)
  • The Sixth Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-sādisa)
  • The Seventh Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-sābiʿa)
  • Secondary Judaeo-Arabic Witnesses to Saadia's Commentary on Esther: Edited Texts of the Reworkings and Précis
  • Bibliographical Abbreviations
  • Indexes
  • Plates
  • Editorial Introduction (Abridged)
  • The Judaeo-Arabic Text of Kitāb al-īnās bi-ʾl-jalwa.