The commentary of R. Jehuda Ibn Balʿam to 2 Chronicles 8:16—34:6
Already in 1963, Prof S. Abramson made it known that the commentary of R. Jehuda Ibn Balʿam (second half of the eleventh century, in Spain) to the Book of Chronicles is mentioned in booklists preserved in several manuscripts. The present fragment, edited, translated from the Arabic into Hebrew and a...
| Subtitles: | פירוש ר' יהודה אבן בלעם לדבה"ב ח:טז — לד:ו |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | Hebrew |
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College
1992
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Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Year: 1992, Volume: 63, Pages: 1-17 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ibn-Balʿam, Yehûdā Ben-Šemûʾēl ca. 11. Jh.
/ Bible. Chronicle 1.-2.
/ Commentary
/ Esra-Synagoge Kairo
/ Genizah
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism HB Old Testament |
| Summary: | Already in 1963, Prof S. Abramson made it known that the commentary of R. Jehuda Ibn Balʿam (second half of the eleventh century, in Spain) to the Book of Chronicles is mentioned in booklists preserved in several manuscripts. The present fragment, edited, translated from the Arabic into Hebrew and annotated herein, proves this fact beyond any doubt. Most probably, it is part of his commentary on the Prophets and Hagiographa called Nukat al-Miqra ('niceties of the scriptures'). This Cairo Genizah four-leaf fragment — T-S Misc. 6,24 — deals with 2 Chr. 8:16—34:6, and the exegetical method applied throughout is mainly philological. Following the methodology which Ibn. Balʿam used in his commentaries to the books of the Prophets available in print or in manuscript (viz., Joshua, Judges, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets), the exegesis in this fragment covers the morphological, syntactical, lexical, and even the stylistic aspects of the words, phrases, and sentences concerned. Only in four cases does he deal here with content problems. In the main, the author is solely concerned with those cases that tend to be incomprehensible since they might have more than one interpretation. And though, as usual, he applies the findings of his predecessors (mainly Saadia and Jona Ibn Janaḥ), seldom does he mention them by name. It is to be hoped that the other parts of this important commentary together with the rest of his compositions, will someday be discovered. |
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| ISSN: | 0360-9049 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
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