page_title: Bible translations into Arabic
hierarchical_section_title: Bible translations into Arabic
caption_attribution_description: English: A page from the Codex Arabicus. The underlying text (ca. 500) is in Syriac, the overlying apocryphal text (ca. 900) is in Arabic. The manuscript contains: BIBLE: APOCRYPHA. TRANSITUS MARIAE (VIRGIN MARY'S ASSUMPTION INTO HEAVEN), BOOKS 1 AND 2 IBN AL'AMA, BISHOP: QUESTIONS ON EDESSA AND B'ARSAMJA ROMAN PEOPLES' MESSAGE (EPILOGUE OF ACTS OF SARBIL) BIBLE: JOHN 9:16 - 38 APOLOGY OF CHRISTIANS AGAINST JEWS "This was written concerning the six books, each book by two of the apostles. – These books were written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin, and the apostles deposited it with Mar John -. Because we apostles are twelve, it is fitting that twelve copies should be written of this book of my Lady Mary, and that a copy should go with each of us." (Book 4)
context_page_description: Translations of the Bible into Arabic are known from the early Christian churches in Syria, Egypt, Malta and Spain. Some of these translations are from Syriac, Coptic or Latin. The earliest fragment of the Old Testament in Arabic is a text of Psalm 77, found in the Umayyad Mosque. Initially it was dated to the end of the 8th century by Bruno Violet, the scholar who discovered the fragments in 1901. However recent research has paleographically dated this manuscript to late 9th- and early 10th century due to new discoveries of photographs.
  One of the oldest Arabic bibles was discovered in the 19th century at Saint Catherine's Monastery. The manuscript called Mt. Sinai Arabic Codex 151, was created in AD 867. It includes the biblical text, marginal comments, lectionary notes, and glosses, as found in the manuscript. Most Arabic translations have translated Yahweh, the Hebrew name of God, as Allāh or Ar-rabb.
context_section_description: Translations of the Bible into Arabic are known from the early Christian churches in Syria, Egypt, Malta and Spain. Some of these translations are from Syriac (the Peshitta), Coptic or Latin. The earliest fragment of the Old Testament in Arabic is a text of Psalm 77, found in the Umayyad Mosque. Initially it was dated to the end of the 8th century by Bruno Violet, the scholar who discovered the fragments in 1901. However recent research has paleographically dated this manuscript to late 9th- and early 10th century due to new discoveries of photographs. (See: Mavroudi et al. 2008, al-Jallad & Martin F.J. Baasten et al. 2017).  
  One of the oldest Arabic bibles was discovered in the 19th century at Saint Catherine's Monastery. The manuscript called Mt. Sinai Arabic Codex 151, was created in AD 867. It includes the biblical text, marginal comments, lectionary notes, and glosses, as found in the manuscript. Most Arabic translations have translated Yahweh (יהוה), the Hebrew name of God (LORD or Jehovah in English / Kyrios in Greek), as Allāh or Ar-rabb (الله or الرب, respectively). These are similar to the appellations utilized by Muslims in Classical Arabic, but the term Ar-rabb is quite distinct from Muslim usage, which normally does not use the definite article, instead predominantly making use of a vocative without an article or affixed possessive pronoun. The Aramaic Mār / Mōr (teacher or lord) is translated as Rabb or Sayyid (رب or سيِّد, respectively). There are many cases where an etymological root exists between an Arabic word and the original Hebrew or Aramaic text, yet it is translated into a colloquial or a commonly used word instead.
  There are many New Testament translations or portions into regional colloquial forms of Arabic e.g. Egyptian Arabic, Sudanese Arabic, Palestinian Arabic, Moroccan  Arabic and Chadian Arabic etc.
caption: Codex Arabicus
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