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مبين قران γράμμα ἐμφανὲς Scriptum manifestum cum reverendissimus ac illusttrissimus S.R.I. Comes Ottingensis Franciscus Ludovicus in Academia Julia A. MDCCXXXIV mense Januario Alcorani Suram XV quoad linguae et rei characterem incomparabili celsi genii exemplo attente ponderasset; cui lexicon arabico-graecum in hanc suram adiecit Hermannus von der Hardt

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Scriptum manifestum

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In 1734 the young aristocrat Franz Ludwig von Oettingen (1709-1780) was studying in Helmstedt and reading Surah 15 with brilliant (and eccentric) professor Herman von der Hardt. On this festive occasion von der Hardt published the Arabic text of the Surah accompanied by a Greek and Latin translation with an Arabic-Greek lexicon appended. The point of this strange exercise was to demonstrate, what von de Hardt was convinced were the Greek origins of Arabic (as of any other oriental language, including Biblical Hebrew).

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Asaph Ben Tov