The Early Judeo-Persian Manuscripts in the British Library and in the National Library of Russia
A Unified Textual Corpus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22029656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ofir Haim (0000-0002-2808-2947, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 29-61 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Intellectual History of the Islamicate World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2212-9421 • E-ISSN: 2212-943X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/2212943x-20201005 |
| OpenAlex | W3045019946 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This article concerns a textual corpus of nine manuscripts written in Early Judeo-Persian. These manuscripts, which are preserved in the British Library and in the National Library of Russia, contain various exegetical works copied by the same group of scribes during the eleventh-twelfth centuries. This article attempts to demonstrate that these manuscripts were also composed in the same possibly-Karaite intellectual milieu, and not merely copied by the same scribes, using two criteria: similar exegetical explanations of the same biblical passages and the employment of Karaite-Hebrew terminology. Furthermore, the examination of these criteria reveals yet another common feature—the manuscripts’ affinity to the works of the tenth-century Karaite scholar Yefet ben ʿEli, which suggests either reliance on Karaite exegetical works written in Judeo-Arabic or a shared background
Ancient history · Arabic · Art · Eleventh · Hebrew · Library science · Linguistics · Literature · National library · Persian · Terminology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classics · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |