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At 11:01 AM 11/5/96 -0800, you wrote:

>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. 

I am simply curious, in this connection, how such a retroversion
accomplishes more than simply being a "targum" on a putative text?

Thanks,


Jim

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Jim West, ThD
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