JUDÆO-ARABIC;
OR, ARABIC IN HEBREW CHARACTERS.
"THE
Arabic Pentateuch, published by Erpenius at
Leyden in 1622 was, as we have seen, printed in
Hebrew characters. The necessity of printing
an edition of the Arabic New Testament in Hebrew
characters was suggested to the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible
Society as early as 1820,
by a clergyman then travelling in the East. Nothing, however, appears
to have been effected for the
many thousand Jews in Egypt, Tunis, and
the whole north of Africa, Yemen, Syria,
and Mesopotamia
(to whom the Arabic is vernacular, but who seldom read or write except in
their own characters),
until 1846, when the Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society commenced for their use an
edition of the
Gospels of St. Matthew and St. John, with the Acts of the Apostles, and the
Epistle to the Hebrews,
under the superintendence of the Rev. Dr. Wilson of Bombay. As
it was found impossible to carry
on this work in India, the parent Society undertook an
edition of 2000 copies, which they completed
and published in 1847."--1860 S. Bagster [Info
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