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Even though Arabic was spoken by Jews and Christians before the advent of Islam, running Arabic translations of the Bible are attested in manuscripts only from the 9th century CE onwards. So far, no evidence could be adduced that Arabic Bible translations were available at that time.
ar'-a-bik vur'-shuns: Arabic translations of the Bible must have been made at a very early date, for Christianity and Judaism had penetrated far into Arabia by the 6th century of our era, but the oldest of which a copy has come down to our time is that of Sasdish the Gaon (942 A.D.).
Jan 6, 2019 · The complete history of Bible translations – how the Word was delivered from God to our modern-day bibles. By Bible Blender. Jan 6, 2019 ancient text. At a glance. hide. The translation of Old and New Testaments. Old Testament – Hebrew and Aramaic. New Testament – Greek. Introduction to bible translations. Samaritan Pentateuch – about 430 BC.
This article will briefly review a few high points of the thousand years of Arabic New Testament transla tions and draw a few conclusions from that long and illustrious translation tradition. By the fifth century most of the Christian churches had stopped translating the Bible.
- Kenneth E. Bailey, Harvey Staal
- 1982
Arabic Versions. ar´a - bik vûr´shuns : Arabic translations of the Bible must have been made at a very early date, for Christianity and Judaism had penetrated far into Arabia by the 6th century of our era, but the oldest of which a copy has come down to our time is that of Sasdish the Gaon (942 ad).
Biblical texts translated into Arabic first circulated orally among Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians in pre-Islamic times. The Arabic Qurʾān, in its canonical form a product of the mid- to late seventh century ce at the earliest, presents the earliest textual evidence for the circulation of the Bible in Arabic. The Qurʾān paraphrases ...
By the year 1000, a number of other translations were added (in some cases partial), including Old Nubian, Sogdian, Arabic and Slavonic languages, among others. Jerome's 4th-century Latin Vulgate version, a revision of earlier Latin translations, was dominant in Western Christianity during the Middle Ages. The Latin-speaking western church led ...
