Editing Torah (section)

===Arabic===
From the eighth century CE, the cultural language of Jews living under Islamic rule became [[Arabic]] rather than Aramaic. "Around that time, both scholars and lay people started producing translations of the Bible into [[Judeo-Arabic]] using the Hebrew alphabet." Later, by the 10th century, it became essential for a standard version of the Bible in Judeo-Arabic. The best known was produced by [[Saadiah]] (the Saadia Gaon, aka the Rasag), and continues to be in use today, "in particular among Yemenite Jewry".<ref>{{Cite EJ |last=Sasson |first=Ilana |title=Arabic |volume=3 |page=603}}</ref>

Rav Sa'adia produced an Arabic translation of the Torah known as ''Targum Tafsir'' and offered comments on Rasag's work.{{sfn|Robinson|2008|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=X54NS-Lc-OcC&pg=PA167 167]–|ps=: "Sa'adia's own major contribution to the Torah is his Arabic translation, ''Targum Tafsir''."}} There is a debate in scholarship whether Rasag wrote the first Arabic translation of the Torah.{{sfn|Zohar|2005|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=4vg0RdqjNV0C&pg=PA106 106]–|ps=: "Controversy exists among scholars as to whether Rasag was the first to translate the Hebrew Bible into Arabic."}}