| Translating Religion: Linguistic Analysis of Judeo-Arabic Sacred Texts from Egypt Contributor(s): Hary, Benjamin H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 900417382X ISBN-13: 9789004173828 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $219.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - Sacred Writings - Literary Criticism - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Etymology |
| Dewey: 492.770 |
| Series: Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéval |
| Physical Information: 384 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Translations of Hebrew and Aramaic sacred texts into Jewish languages, religiolects, and varieties have been widespread throughout the Jewish world. This volume is a study of the genre of these translations, known as the sarḥ, into Judeo-Arabic in Egypt in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The study places Judeo-Arabic along the Jewish linguistic spectrum, traces its history and offers insights to the spoken variety of Egyptian Judeo-Arabic, which set it apart from other Arabic dialects. The book also provides a linguistic model of the translation of the sacred texts. Rather than viewing the translation as only verbatim, the study traces in great detail the literal/interpretive linguistic tension with which the translators struggled in their work. |