Old Jewish Commentaries on the Song of Songs I: The Commentary of Yefet Ben Eli
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Joseph Alobaidi, Old Jewish Commentaries on the Song of Songs I: The Commentary of Yefet Ben Eli, https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/33S7Q89A, https://www.zotero.org/groups/biblia_arabica/items/33S7Q89A, https://www.zotero.org/groups/538215/items/33S7Q89A, Bern, Peter Lang, 2010, La Bible dans l’histoire: Textes et études, A very inadequate, idiosyncratic edition and English translation of Yefet’s Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary on Song of Songs, based on only one, complete—albeit rather late (17th-century)—Ms. in the Bibliothèque nationale. No mention at all is made of the several other Mss. witnesses in G. Tamani’s preliminary inventory https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/T3Q3LJWP, nor is any use made of the extremely important MS: London, British Library, Or. 2554, written in Arabic characters and during Yefet’s lifetime, and unquestionably preserving a much more original text of Yefet’s work (see, inter alios, Ben-Shammai’s seminal article on this matter in Alei Sefer [1976] https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/NCBSYSN3, as well as Wechsler’s 2008 edition of Yefet, pp. 97–112, 144–48 https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/Y269T5AH). See also the review of K. Almbladh in Orientalia Suecana 59 (2010): 217–18. https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/94YIRLEB

Alobaidi, Joseph, ed. Old Jewish Commentaries on the Song of Songs I: The Commentary of Yefet Ben Eli. Translated by Joseph Alobaidi. La Bible Dans l’histoire: Textes et Études 9. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010.