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Volume 2 of our critical edition of the Arragel Bible includes a bilingual presentation of the Codex’s Prologue with English translation and detailed notes on its sources, content, and value for the history of Jewish Christian relations in medieval Iberia, followed by Arragel’s Old Spanish translation of Genesis, with extensive notes on his translation approach to the original Hebrew, its textual echoes of Jewish Bible interpretations drawn from rabbinic and medieval sources, his linguistic predilections in matters of lexicon, morphology and syntax, the discernible interventions of his Christian collaborators, and textual comparisons with other Bible translations, both ancient and medieval, Jewish and Christian.

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Luis M. Girón Negrón is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He has published extensively on medieval and early modern Iberia, including Alfonso de la Torre’s Visión Deleitable (2001), Las Coplas de Yosef (2006) and El envés de lo inefable (2025). Andrés Enrique-Arias is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands. He is the author of over a hundred publications on Spanish historical linguistics, and the principal investigator of the Historical Atlas of Spanish and the Biblia Medieval Project. Francisco Javier Pueyo Mena is a senior researcher at the CSIC who works on Medieval Spanish and Judeo-Spanish philology. He has published several articles and editions of Jewish biblical translations, including the volume Biblia Romanceada. BNE. Ms. 10288 (HSMS, 1996). Ángel Saenz Badillos (1940 – 2013) was a professor of Hebrew literature at the Complutense University in Madrid and the leading Iberian Hebraist of his generation, with seminal publications on medieval Hebrew poetry, Semitic philology, and Jewish Bible interpretation.

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