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jgvalentin@arcadis.be asked:
> * Do you need a translation of the text (and, probably of the variants or
> some of them) to accompany it? If yes, in what language? Latin, French,
> English?

If you want the work to be usable by scholars without a good command
of Arabic (i.e. almost all biblical scholars) some translation would
be needed.  A greek retroversion would be of much greater theoretical
interest than a fresh translation into English or French, because
the Greek Vorlage (or Vorlage of the Vorlage) will always be referred to
when the relationship of the Arabic texts to the rest of the NT tradition
is investigated.  Minor variants may not be translatable into
Greek or English or French, so that some annotations or sigla would
also be desired.

As an example, the Gothic edition of Streitberg (and from Metzger's
comments I suppose the other Gothic editions are similar) displays the
Gothic and Greek Vorlage on facing pages, the Gothic page supplied
with linguistic notes, the Greek page with text-critical notes.  The
few pages with more than one Gothic MS extant (in Paul) displayed the texts
in double columns (but of course an Arabic text with many MSS would
need to appear in apparatus form).

One problem of Streitberg's that you would want to avoid is that
his Greek Vorlage is not a direct retroversion of the Gothic MSS,
but a reconstruction of the Greek text Ulfilas is supposed
to have translated from, prior to the contaminating influence of
the Latin Vulgate intruding into the Gothic tradition.  He does
this by identifying Vulgate readings and replacing them with Koine readings.
While his theory of contamination is plausible, printing a hypothetical
reconstruction instead of a straight retroversion makes it harder to
untangle what is the basic evidence and what is just his theory.


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