A Judaeo‐Arabic Fragment of A Samaritan Chronicle from the Cairo Geniza
The Shobakh legend, which relates the war of Joshua, son of Nun, against Shobakh, the king of Armenia, is preserved in most of the Samaritan chronicles in a shorter or more elaborate version, written in Samaritan Hebrew or Arabic. The Geniza fragment is the first known Judaeo‐Arabic text of the lege...
| Published in: | Journal of Semitic studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2002
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Journal of Semitic studies
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| Summary: | The Shobakh legend, which relates the war of Joshua, son of Nun, against Shobakh, the king of Armenia, is preserved in most of the Samaritan chronicles in a shorter or more elaborate version, written in Samaritan Hebrew or Arabic. The Geniza fragment is the first known Judaeo‐Arabic text of the legend, including some lines of Joshua's letter to his opponent before the ongoing battle. It shows a literary correspondence to the Arabic chronicle ‘Liber Josuae’ and the Hebrew chronicles JR(G)1168 and JR(G)1167 and throws light on some obscure formulations preserved in the versions. The somewhat unexpected presence of a Samaritan document in the Geniza of the rabbanite Ben‐Ezra synagogue of Old‐Cairo may indicate that the Shobakh legend — which had its own ‘Traditionsgeschichte’ before being integrated into the Samaritan chronicles — was popular among both Jewish and Samaritan communities and knowledge of it was more widespread than hitherto recognised. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-8556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Semitic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jss/47.2.215 |