The Old Spanish Bible of Moshe Arragel
Authors: Luis Girón-Negrón, Andrés Enrique-Arias, Francisco Javier Pueyo-Mena, and Angel Saenz Badillos
The Arragel Bible—a 15th century Spanish Bible translation with commentary by Moshe Arragel of Guadalajara—is a monumental work of Hispano-Jewish scholarship, an Old Spanish literary classic, and a privileged historical source on Jewish-Christian relations in medieval Iberia. The studies in Volume 1 of our edition in progress review three aspects of this Ibero-Jewish classic by way of introduction: its content and significance for the religious history and literatures of late medieval Spain; a linguistic analysis of Arragel’s Castilian—his lexical choices, morphology, and syntax—in its Ibero-Romance context; and an analytic description of the extant illuminated codex in Madrid.
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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