Translation into Hebrew of the Koran, Moslem bible, has been completed here, after twenty years of work, by Dr. Joseph Rivlin, an instructor at the Hebrew University. Dr. Rivlin, who is a native of this city, teaches Arabic in the Jerusalem Hebrew Teachers Seminary. The Koran was once before translated into Hebrew, but the translation was not highly considered because of its inaccuracy.
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