Some new sources for the study of the text and language of Saadya’s translation of the Pentateuch into Judaeo-Arabic
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Yitzhaq Avishur, Joshua Blau, Stefan Reif, Some new sources for the study of the text and language of Saadya’s translation of the Pentateuch into Judaeo-Arabic, https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/ZTXZYJ96, https://www.zotero.org/groups/biblia_arabica/items/ZTXZYJ96, https://www.zotero.org/groups/538215/items/ZTXZYJ96, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/906584279, University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 5-13, Divides the extant witnesses to Saadia’s JA translation of the Pentateuch into 9 distinct categories. Several examples are cited and compared to the published edition of Derenbourg (1893) https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/P5TZRCRK. On p. 9 the author briefly surveys the importance and relationship of Qaraite Judaeo-Arabic translations of the Pentateuch for establishing the text of Saadiah’s translation.

Avishur, Yitzhaq. “Some New Sources for the Study of the Text and Language of Saadya’s Translation of the Pentateuch into Judaeo-Arabic.” In Genizah Research after Ninety Years, the Case of Judaeo-Arabic: Papers Read at the Third Congress of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies, edited by Joshua Blau and Stefan Reif, 5–13. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.