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Wechsler Michael G. |
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The book of conviviality in exile (Kitab al-inas bi-'l-jalwa) : the Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary of Saadia Gaon on the Book of Esther / / edited, translated and introduced by Michael G. Wechsler |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (684 pages) |
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Collana |
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Biblia Arabica, , 2213-6401 ; ; Volume 1 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Overview -- Methods and Themes in Saadia’s Exegesis of Esther -- Publication History -- Written Witnesses Employed for the Present Edition -- Editorial Method -- Some Methodological Remarks on the Annotated English Translation -- Signs, Sigla, and Abbreviations -- The Title and the Introduction -- The First Section (al-Qiṣṣat al-ūlā) -- The Second Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-thāniyya) -- The Third Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-thālitha) -- The Fourth Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-rābiʿa) -- The Fifth Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-khāmisa) -- The Sixth Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-sādisa) -- The Seventh Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-sābiʿa) -- Secondary Judaeo-Arabic Witnesses to Saadia’s Commentary on Esther: Edited Texts of the Reworkings and Précis -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Indexes -- Plates -- Editorial Introduction (Abridged) -- The Judaeo-Arabic Text of Kitāb al-īnās bi-ʾl-jalwa. |
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This volume presents a critical edition of the Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Esther by Saadia Gaon (882–942). This edition, accompanied by an introduction and extensively annotated English translation, affords access to the first-known personalized, rationalistic Jewish commentary on this biblical book. Saadia innovatively organizes the biblical narrative—and his commentary thereon—according to seven “guidelines” that provide a practical blueprint by which Israel can live as an abased people under Gentile dominion. Saadia’s prodigious acumen and sense of communal |
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solicitude find vivid expression throughout his commentary in his carefully-defined structural and linguistic analyses, his elucidative references to a broad range of contemporary socio-religious and vocational realia, his anti-Karaite polemics, and his attention to various issues, both psychological and practical, attending Jewish-Gentile conviviality in a 10th-century Islamicate milieu. |
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