Translators, copyists and interpreters
Jews, Christians and Muslims and the transmission of the Bible in Arabic in the Middle Age
(Casa Árabe, April 26-28 2017)
Convened by
University of Cordoba (Spain)
Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (USA)
Academic Committee
C. Adang (Tel Aviv University)
M. Lindgren Hjälm (Ludwig Maximilian Univ.)
J.P. Monferrer-Sala (University of Córdoba)
M. Polliack (Tel Aviv University)
S. Schmidtke (IAS, Princeton)
M. Zawanowska (University of Warsaw & Jewish Historical Institute)
Participants:
Camilla Adang (Tel Aviv University)
Esperanza Alfonso (ILC – CCHS, Madrid)
Samir Arbache (Université Catholique de Lille)
Tania García Arévalo (University of Granada)
Federico Corriente (Saragossa University)
Pilar González Casado (Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso, Madrid)
Dennis Halft (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Geoffrey Kyle (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Miriam Lindgren Hjälm (Biblia Arabica Project, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
Shari L. Lowin (Stonehill College, Easton MA)
Noam Mizrahi (Tel Aviv University)
Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (University of Córdoba)
Meirav Nadler-Akirav (Bar-Ilan University, Biblia Arabica Project)
Mayte Penelas (CSIC, Granada)
Meira Polliack (Tel Aviv University)
Arik Sadan (Biblia Arabica Project, Tel Aviv University)
Ilana Sasson (Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT)
Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Sara Schulthess (Vital-DH/Vital-IT, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
Gregor Schwarb (SOAS University of London)
Peter Tarras (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
David Vishanoff (University of Oklahoma)
Mateusz Wilk (Warsaw University)
Vevian Zaki (Biblia Arabica Project, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
Marzena Zawanowska (University of Warsaw & Jewish Historical Institute)
Programme
Wednesday 26 April
9:00 – 9:30 Opening Session
9:30 – 10:15 Opening keynote (Chair Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala)
Federico Corriente Córdoba (Saragossa University)
Canonization of texts through linguistic archaism and higher registers: the case of the Psalter fragment published by Prof. Violet
JUDEO-ARABIC TRANSLATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS
First session (Chair Meira Polliack)
10:15 – 10:45 Ilana Sasson (Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT)
The Open Book—Textual Fluidity and the History of Transmission: A Case Study of A Medieval Karaite Commentary
10:45 – 11:15 Noam Mizrahi (Tel Aviv University)
Translation Techniques in the Aramaic Targumim as a Possible Antecedent for Arabic Versions
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
Second session (Chair David Vishanoff)
11:45 – 12:15 Marzena Zawanowska (University of Warsaw & Jewish Historical Institute)
Stylistic Explanations of Theological Cruxes in the Medieval Karaites' Arabic Commentaries on the Hebrew Biblie
12:15 – 12:45 Gregor Schwarb (SOAS University of London)
Authorship, structure and genre of the commentary known as B’rēshīth Rabbā ascribed to Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah
12:45 – 13:30 Discussion
14:00 – 16:00 Lunch
Third session (Chair Dennis Halft)
16:30 – 17:00 Arik Sadan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Tel Aviv University; Shalem College; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Different Transmissions of Yefet Ben Eli’s Translation and Commentary on the Book of Job in Judeo-Arabic, Based on the Available Manuscripts written in Arabic and Hebrew Letters
17:00 – 17:30 Tania García Arévalo (University of Granada)
Šarḥ in Modern Times and its relation to medieval sources: Continuity or rupture?
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break
Fourth session (Chair Mateusz Wilk)
18:00 – 18:30 Shari L. Lowin (Stonehill College, Easton MA)
“The Jews say the Hand of God is Chained”: Q 5:64 and the Rewritten Bible
18:30 – 19:00 Esperanza Alfonso (ILC – CCHS, Madrid)
Arabic and the Study and Translation of the Bible in the Vernacular
19:00 – 19:30 Meirav Nadler-Akirav (Bar–Ilan University – BAP)
Yefet ben ’Eli’s Commentary to the Book of Malachi
19:30 – 20:15 Discussion
20:15 Dinner
Thursday 27 April
CHRISTIAN-ARABIC TRANSLATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS
First session (Chair Gregor Schwarb)
10:00 – 10:30 Samir Arbache (Université Catholique de Lille)
Stafana de Ramla, copiste du IXe siècle, au monastère Saint Chariton
10:30 – 11:00 Miriam Lindgren Hjälm (BAP, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
Towards a Codicological Categorization of Early Christian Arabic Bible Manuscripts
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
Second session (Chair Ilana Sasson)
11:30 – 12:00 Pilar González Casado (Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso)
Christian Arabic terminology in some Bible quotations
12:00 – 12:30 Peter Tarras (BAP, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
Arguing from Scripture: Extracts from the Summa Theologiae Arabica in a membrum disjectum of Sin. Ar. 155 (MSS Munich BSB Cod. arab. 1071 + Paris BNF Syr. 378)
12:30 – 13:15 Discussion
13:30 – 13:45 Camilla Adang (Tel Aviv University)
Ibn Ḥazm and his importance for the study of the Arabic Bible
14:00 – 16:00 Lunch
Third session (Chair Arik Sadan)
16:30 – 17:00 Vevian Zaki (BAP, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)
The Life Story of Manuscript Sinai Arabic 151
17:00 – 17:30 Sara Schulthess (Vital-DH/Vital-IT, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
Marciana Gr. Z. 11 (379): A New Testament multilingual manuscript from a multilingual milieu?
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break
Fourth session (Chair Marzena Zawanowska)
18:00 – 18:30 Mayte Penelas (CSIC, Granada)
Narratives of Samuel and Kings in a Christian manuscript from al-Andalus (Ms Raqqada 2003/2)
18:30 – 19:00 Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (University of Cordoba)
‘Prove the Torah in Hebrew and the Gospel in Latin’
On the biblical quotations contained in the Andalusi Kitāb Tathlīth al-Waḥdāniyyah
19:00 – 19:30 Geoffrey Kyle (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Scribe A of the Seville Bible: Arabic, Latin, and Eschatology
19:30 – 20:15 Discussion
20:30 Dinner
Friday 28 April
MUSLIM TRANSMISSIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF THE BIBLE
First session (Chair Samir Arbache)
9:30 – 10:00 Camilla Adang (Tel Aviv University)
The story of Joshua ben Nūn according to al-Maqrīzī (d. 845/1442)
10:00 – 10:30 Dennis Halft (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Notes on the So-Called Persian Diatessaron and its Author and Commentator
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
Second session (Chair Federico Corriente)
11:00 – 11:30 Mateusz Wilk (Warsaw University)
Prophets and Scriptures in the Islamic Piety of the 3rd/9th Century
11:30 – 12:00 David Vishanoff (University of Oklahoma)
An Early Thirteenth-Century Recension of the Islamic Psalms of David:
The Islamicized Style and Content of Istanbul Manuscript Fatih 28
12:00 – 12:30 Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Imami Usages of Gen. 17:20
12:30 – 13:15 Discussion
13:15 – 14:00 Closing keynote (Chair Camilla Adang)
Meira Polliack (Tel Aviv University)
‘He saw her bathing on the roof’: the David and Bathsheba Narrative
in inter-religious exegetical exchange and cross-cultural character
development (from late antiquity to the Middle Ages)
14:15 Farewell lunch