Bible translations into Arabic
Overview of Bible translations into Arabic
Arabic translations of the Bible (Arabic: الكتاب المقدس, "The holy book") constitute one of the richest traditions of Bible transmission. Translations of the Bible into Arabic were produced by Arabic-speaking Jews (Rabbanite and Karaite), Christians, and Samaritans. Even though Arabic was spoken by Jews and Christians before the emergence of Islam, running Arabic translations of the Bible are attested in manuscripts only from the 9th century onwards. Quotations from the Bible in Arabic (so-called testimonia) are attested from earlier centuries, especially among Christians.
The Bible was translated into Arabic from a variety of source languages. These include Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Syriac. Judeo-Arabic translations can also exhibit influence of the Aramaic Targums. Especially in the 19th century, Arabic Bible translations start to express regional colloquial dialects. The different communities that produced Arabic translations of the Bible also used different alphabets to write Arabic. Accordingly, Arabic translations of the Bible are found in Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, and Syriac (Garshuni) script.
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