RT Article
T1 Polemical Aspects in an Early Judeo-Persian Bible Exegesis - The Commentary on the Story of Ḥannah (RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 4608)
JF Entangled Religions
VO 6
SP 162
OP 200
A1 Haim, Ofir
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1575566338
AB The article discusses the attitude towards Christians, Muslims, and the “foreign sciences” based on one of the only extant polemical texts written in Early Judeo-Persian—a passage from an unpublished commentary on story of Ḥannah preserved in the National Library of Russia (RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 4608). In addition, the article attempts to define the relation of this commentary to the broader intellectual environment of the medieval Jewish world. A close examination of this passage reveals a possible connection to Karaite exegetical work written in Judeo-Arabic during the tenth century, particularly those of Yefet ben ʿEli. Therefore, the article may serve as a case study of intellectual contact and transmission of knowledge between different Jewish groups in the Islamicate world.
K1 Bible exegesis
K1 Early Judeo-Persian
K1 Judeo-Arabic
K1 Karaite
K1 Polemics
K1 Yefet ben ʿEli
DO 10.13154/er.v6.2018.162-200