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        "title": "The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben 'Eli the Karaite on the Book of Esther: Edition, Translation, and Introduction",
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                "firstName": "Michael G.",
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        "abstractNote": "Consists of an edition of the Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Esther by one of the preeminent litterateurs of the Karaite \"Golden Age\", Yefet ben 'Eli ha-Levi. This work also assess Yefet's Arabic translation technique and includes a survey of all extant Karaite commentaries on Esther, both in Arabic as well as Hebrew.\n\nAn edition and English translation of Yefet’s Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Esther, including his introduction to the book, based on 10 distinct Mss. as represented in 11 separately-catalogued items and a lengthy citation by the Qaraite Judah Meʾir Tawrīzī. Comparative excerpts from the Judaeo-Arabic translation of Salmon b. Yeruḥam and Judaeo-Arabic glosses from the lexicon of David b. Abraham al-Fāsī are cited in the footnotes to the English translation (for the locations of which see Index IV, s.nn.). Yefet’s translation of the biblical text is addressed specifically in chap. 3 of Wechsler’s introduction. See the reviews by I.R.M. Bóid in BO 67 (2010): 189–92 {https://www.zotero.org/groups/538215/biblia_arabica/items/itemKey/3Q7CRQ7N/q/boid/qmode/everything}; J. Kaltner in RBL 07/2011 (http://www.bookreviews.org) {https://www.zotero.org/groups/538215/biblia_arabica/items/itemKey/QRK6KHQ7/q/kaltner/qmode/everything}; and R. Vollandt in JJS 61 (2010): 181 {https://www.zotero.org/groups/538215/biblia_arabica/items/itemKey/NTYY9B2X/q/vollandt/qmode/everything}.",
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        "shortTitle": "The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben 'Eli the Karaite on the Book of Esther",
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                "tag": "Book: Esther"
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                "tag": "Translator: David al-Fāsī"
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                "tag": "Translator: Salmon ben Yeruḥam"
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