LEADER 03628nam 2200517 450 001 9910797193103321 005 20230807214239.0 010 $a90-04-28452-4 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004284524 035 $a(CKB)3710000000383389 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001458156 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11902464 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001458156 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11443716 035 $a(PQKB)10882061 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2006468 035 $a(OCoLC)900634479$z(OCoLC)905486933 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004284524 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000383389 100 $a20150411h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe book of conviviality in exile (Kitab al-inas bi-'l-jalwa) $ethe Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary of Saadia Gaon on the Book of Esther /$fedited, translated and introduced by Michael G. Wechsler 210 1$aLeiden, Netherlands ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cBrill,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (684 pages) 225 0 $aBiblia Arabica,$x2213-6401 ;$vVolume 1 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a90-04-27822-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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-Qi??at al-?l?) -- The Second Section (al-Qi??a al-th?niyya) -- The Third Section (al-Qi??a al-th?litha) -- The Fourth Section (al-Qi??a al-r?bi?a) -- The Fifth Section (al-Qi??a al-kh?misa) -- The Sixth Section (al-Qi??a al-s?disa) -- The Seventh Section (al-Qi??a al-s?bi?a) -- 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 Kit?b al-?n?s bi-?l-jalwa. 330 $aThis volume presents a critical edition of the Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Esther by Saadia Gaon (882?942). This edition, accompanied by an introduction and extensively annotated English translation, affords access to the first-known personalized, rationalistic Jewish commentary on this biblical book. Saadia innovatively organizes the biblical narrative?and his commentary thereon?according to seven ?guidelines? that provide a practical blueprint by which Israel can live as an abased people under Gentile dominion. Saadia?s prodigious acumen and sense of communal solicitude find vivid expression throughout his commentary in his carefully-defined structural and linguistic analyses, his elucidative references to a broad range of contemporary socio-religious and vocational realia, his anti-Karaite polemics, and his attention to various issues, both psychological and practical, attending Jewish-Gentile conviviality in a 10th-century Islamicate milieu. 410 0$aBiblia Arabica$v1. 676 $a222/.9049 700 $aWechsler$b Michael G.$01154806 702 $aWechsler$b Michael G. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797193103321 996 $aThe book of conviviality in exile (Kitab al-inas bi-'l-jalwa)$93770886 997 $aUNINA