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Title: Muqdam u-Meʿuḥar and Muqaddam wa-Muʿaḫḫar: On the History of Some Hebrew and Arabic Terms for Hysteron Proteron and Anastrophe.
Authors: Steiner, Richard C
Keywords: muqdam u-me'uhar
muqaddam wa-mu'ahhar
Hebrew and Aramaic terms
Hysteron Proteron
Anastrophe
Quranic exegetes
Issue Date: Jan-2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Series/Report no.: Journal of Near Eastern Studies;66(1)
Abstract: The Judeo-Arabic commentaries of R. Saadia Gaon (882–942) and his successors contain a number of exegetical terms that were used earlier by quranic exegetes, for example, haqiqah wa-majaz “expressions that are literally true and expressions used with literary license,” muhkam wa-mutasabih “univocal and ambiguous,” and muqaddam wamu ªahhar “hysteron proteron.”1 Some of these terms also have Hebrew analogs. Hebrew has an opposition between ªemet and masal (lit., “truth” and “parable”) that is rare in the Talmud but becomes more prominent in the Islamic period as an equivalent of the haqiqahmajaz dichotomy.2 Hebrew also has a term muqdam u-meªuhar that, like Arabic muqaddam wa-muªahhar, refers to inverted order. M. Zucker has argued that the Hebrew term is a borrowing of the Arabic one: “The use of this exegetical principle is found already in tannaitic and amoraic literature, but their term is serus. . . . The term min ha-muqdam weha- meªuhar is found only in sources of the Arabic period. . . .”
URI: https://yulib002.mc.yu.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1086/512212
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/4314
ISSN: 0022-2968
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