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Studies in Saadiah Gaon's Arabic Translations

Frankel, David Harry
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338315987

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2012, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
With these three chapters analyzing Saadiah’s bible translations, exegesis, and liturgical translations, it will be demonstrated that Saadiah’s use of Arabic terminology allowed him to create an innovative form of the expression of Jewish ideas. In the case of the Pentateuch translations, the Arabic terminology that was analyzed served to preserve not only a very literal meaning of the text in the vernacular of the Jewish masses but also the sacred nature of the text by utilizing terms which possess a sacred nature in the Qur’ān and Islamic texts. In his translations of the baqqashot, Saadiah includes names for God which occur in Islamic prayer and includes terminology that describes its actual choreography. In this way, Saadiah allowed for the prayer to not only serve as a form of Jewish piety, but also to resemble the Muslim piety for the sake of his readers. The interpretation of the first Psalm also displays an innovative form of the expression of Jewish ideas by supplying a multiplicity of meanings for some words, a feat which is not common in the Jewish literature that preceded him.
Daniel Frank, PhD (Advisor)
Michael Swartz, PhD (Committee Chair)
84 p.
Judaic Studies
Saadiah Gaon Arabic translation bible exegesis tafsir geonim medieval jewish liturgy siddur

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  • Frankel, D. H. (2012). Studies in Saadiah Gaon's Arabic Translations [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338315987

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Frankel, David. Studies in Saadiah Gaon's Arabic Translations. 2012. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338315987.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Frankel, David. "Studies in Saadiah Gaon's Arabic Translations." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338315987

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