Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Early Medieval Arabic Bible Translations -- Saadya Gaon’s Translation of the Pentateuch -- The Samaritan Version of Saadya Gaon’s Translation of the Pentateuch and Its Transmission -- Characteristics of MS London BL OR7562: Script and Orthography -- Characteristics of MS London BL OR7562: Language -- Characteristics of MS London BL OR7562: Adaptation to the Samaritan Pentateuch -- Christian and Karaite Parallels in MS London BL OR7562 and in the Other Samaritan Arabic Translations of the Pentateuch -- Non-Saadyan Samaritan Arabic Versions in the First Stage of MS London BL OR7562 -- Conclusion -- Introduction to the Critical Edition -- References -- Indexes -- Contents -- Genesis ‮בראשית‬‎ -- Exodus ‮שמות‬‎ -- Leviticus ‮ויקרא‬‎ -- Numbers ‮במדבר‬‎ -- Deuteronomy ‮דברים‬‎ -- MSS St. Petersburg RNL Firk. Sam. 179, 178 and MS Manchester JRL Sam. 73 -- MS Oxford Bodl. OR139 (Deut 11:2–26:14) -- MS Manchester JRL Sam. 2 (Deut 32–34).

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This edition of MS London BL OR7562 and other related MSS, and the accompanying linguistic and philological study, discuss a Samaritan adaptation of Saadya’s Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, its main characteristics and place among other early Medieval Arabic Bible translations, viz., other versions of Saadya’s translation of the Pentateuch, other Samaritan Arabic versions of the Pentateuch, and Christian and Karaite Arabic Bible translations. The study analyses the various components of this version, its transmission, its language, the extent to which the Samaritans adapted this version of Saadya’s translation to their own version of the Hebrew Pentateuch, and their possible motives in choosing it for their own use.

Text in English and Samaritan Aramaic.