The Western Karaim Torah : a critical edition of a manuscript from 1720 / Michał Németh.
"This volume offers the critical edition and an English translation of the oldest translation of the Pentateuch into Western Karaim copied in 1720 by Simcha ben Chananel (died 1723). The manuscript was compared against several other Karaim translations of the Torah as well as with the standard...
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| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English Altaic Hebrew |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Series: | Languages of Asia series
24/1-2. |
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | "This volume offers the critical edition and an English translation of the oldest translation of the Pentateuch into Western Karaim copied in 1720 by Simcha ben Chananel (died 1723). The manuscript was compared against several other Karaim translations of the Torah as well as with the standard text of the Hebrew Bible. The author provides a description of the manuscript's language and an outline of the history of Western Karaim translations of the Torah to better understand the its philological and historical background"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (volumes) : illustrations, facsimiles. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9004447377 9789004447370 9004426582 9789004426580 |
| ISSN: | 2452-2961 ; |