The Western Karaim Torah

A Critical Edition of a Manuscript from 1720

• Author(s): Michał Németh,
• Publisher: Brill
• Pages: 1468
• ISBN_10: 9004426582
  ISBN_13: 9789004426580
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Etymology , Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General ,

Description:... 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.