The Arabic Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Ali the Karaite on the Book of Hosea, Edited from Eight Manuscripts and Provided with a Critical Notes and an Introduction
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Philip Birnbaum, The Arabic Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Ali the Karaite on the Book of Hosea, Edited from Eight Manuscripts and Provided with a Critical Notes and an Introduction, https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/34RLRYC5, https://www.zotero.org/groups/biblia_arabica/items/34RLRYC5, https://www.zotero.org/groups/538215/items/34RLRYC5, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4571613, Philadelphia, The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1942, An edition only of Yefet’s introduction, Judaeo-Arabic translation, and commentary on Hosea, based on 9 Mss. (as enumerated by the editor, who divides MS: Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Opp. Add. 4to. 168 into two distinct Mss. [א and ד], contra Polliack and Schlossberg in their recent edition)https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/QV8ISQLS. MS: Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Opp. Add. 4to. 168 is used as the primary witness. The editor adds specific remarks on Yefet’s translation on pp. xxxiii–xxxiv. MS: Cambridge, Trinity College, F 12 118 (=Loewe 37) is described by Birnbaum, p. lix, as “Fragments in the possession of W. Aldis Wright at Cambridge”. The manuscript quoted as Elisha; private coll. can be identified with MS: Lausanne, Lichaa 11, although no number given by Birnbaum, p. lviii. See the reviews by L.E. Marwick, JBL 62 (1943): 37–43 https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/MHWLWBGA; L. Nemoy, JQR 33 (1943): 501–6 https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/LWD4XNHX; and M. Sprengling, JNES 2 (1943): 210 https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/PQQL5BYA.

Birnbaum, Philip, ed. The Arabic Commentary of Yefet Ben ‘Ali the Karaite on the Book of Hosea, Edited from Eight Manuscripts and Provided with a Critical Notes and an Introduction. Translated by Philip Birnbaum. Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1942.