The Western Karaim Torah

A Critical Edition of a Manuscript from 1720
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-42658-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 1468 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 3021 g

Reihe: Languages of Asia

This volume offers the critical edition and an English translation of the oldest translation of the Pentateuch into Western Karaim copied in 1720 by Simcha ben Chananel (died 1723). The manuscript was compared against several other Karaim translations of the Torah as well as with the standard text of the Hebrew Bible. The author provides a description of the manuscript’s language and an outline of the history of Western Karaim translations of the Torah to better understand the its philological and historical background.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Németh, Michal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Tables and Facsimilia

Abbreviations and Editorial Symbols

Introduction

1 The Antecedents of Manuscript ADub.III.73

2 Manuscript ADub.III.73

3 The Origins of Manuscript ADub.III.73

4 Manuscript TKow.01

5 Other Western Karaim Translations of the Hebrew Bible

6 A Linguistic Description of Manuscript ADub.III.73

7 Orthography and Transcription of the Karaim Content

8 The Hebrew Content

Transcription and Translation

Introductory Remarks

Transcription and Translation

Lexicographical Addenda

Bibliography

Facsimilia

Über Autor(innen)

Michal Németh, Ph.D. (2011) is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Linguistics at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and an ERC grantee. He has authored over fifty works (books, articles, and a database) devoted to Turkic and Hungarian historical-linguistics.