The Arabic translation and commentary of Yefet ben ʻEli the Karaite on the Abraham narratives (Genesis 11:10-25:18)
By: edition and by introduction by Marzena Zawanowska
Series: Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval -- t. 46; Karaite texts and studies -- v. 4
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; jrb
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9789004191310
Subjects: Commentaries; Karaites; Bible
Work titles: Bible. O.T. Genesis XI, 10-XXV,18. Judeo-Arabic. Japheth ben Ali
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Biblical text and commentary in Judeo-Arabic; introd. and critical apparatus in English.
Table of contents: title: Yefet and his times; title: Who wrote the Torah? Yefet's view on the authorship of the Pentateuch; title: In quest of truth: Yefet's hermeneutic concepts; title: Between the holy text and Its unholy context:  polemical overtones in Yefet's commentary on Genesis; title: Scripture as the supreme composition: literary aspects of Yefet's exegesis of Genesis; title: The limits of literalism: Yefet's approach to Bible translation; title: Description of manuscripts employed for the present edition; title: Editing of the manuscripts; title: Signs and abbreviations employed in the critical edition; title: Edition.