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- Title
Jewish Forerunners of the Spanish Biblia romanceada: A Thirteenth-Century Witness (Bodleian MS Hunt. 268).
- Authors
Lawrance, Jeremy
- Abstract
Despite Church prohibitions, almost twenty medieval Bibles in Spanish survive. The Old Testament versions derived in many cases from translations from Hebrew made by Jews. These were characterized by a unique rabbinical "calque-language" that would be preserved by Sephardim for centuries after the Expulsion in 1492; but the Inquisition destroyed the medieval Jewish copies. This article studies a new witness, the oldest known: a thirteenth-century Hebrew commentary on the Hagiographa with Spanish glosses. These fully confirm the amazing continuity of the Ladino scriptolect.
- Subjects
BIBLE; OLD Testament; BODLEIAN Library; SEPHARDIM; BIBLICAL commentaries; WITNESSES; BIBLICAL translations; INQUISITION; HEBREW literature
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, 2022, Vol 138, Issue 2, p399
- ISSN
0049-8661
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zrp-2022-0018