Studies in Semitic linguistics and manuscripts
Subtitle: a liber discipulorum in honour of Professor Geoffrey Khan
By: edited by Nadia Vidro, Ronny Vollandt, Esther-Miriam Wagner and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Series: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia -- 30; Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis -- 30
Publisher: Uppsala University Library
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Uppsala, Sweden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9789151302904
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Semitic philology; Semitic languages; Manuscripts, Semitic (Papyri)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Semitic long /i/ vowels in the Greek of Codex Vaticanus of the New Testament / Peter J Williams; title: Biblical Hebrew tense-aspect-mood, word order and pragmatics : some observations on recent approaches / Aaron D. Hornkohl; title: Long or short? : the use of long and short Wayyiqṭols in Biblical, parabiblical and commentary scrolls from Qumran / Johan M. V. Lundberg; title: Unmarked modality and rhetorical questions in Biblical Hebrew / Elizabeth Robar; title: The Shewa in the first of two identical letters and the compound Babylonian vocalisation / Shai Heijmans; title: [Hebrew title] : some notes on the vocalisation of the definite article in Tiberian Hebrew / Daniel Birnstiel; title: The use of dageš in the non-standard Tiberian manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible from the Cairo Genizah / Samuel Blapp; title: The Ashkenazic Hebrew of Nathan Nata Hannover's Yeven Meṣula (1653) / Lily Kahn; title: Medieval Jewish exegetical insights into the use of infinitive absolute as the equivalent of a preceding finite form / Fiona Blumfield; title: Implementation as innovation : the Arabic terms Qiṣṣa and Ḵabar in medieval Karaite interpretation of Biblical narrative and its redaction history / Meira Polliack; title: Patterns of diffusion of phonological change in the north-eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect of Azran / Lidia Napiorkowska; title: The Neo-Aramaic dialect of Telkepe / Eleanor Coghill; title: 'The King and the wazir' : a folk-tale in the Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho / Oz Aloni; title: Crossing palaeographical borders : bi-alphabetical scribes and the development of Hebrew script : the case of the Maghrebi cursive / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger; title: Beyond the Leningrad codex : Samuel b. Jacob in the Cairo Genizah / Benjamin M. Outhwaite; title: Arabic vocalisation in Judaeo-Arabic grammars of classical Arabic / Nadia Vidro; title: The structural and linguistic features of three Hebrew begging letters from the Cairo Genizah / Estara J. Arrant; title: Birds of a feather? : Arabic scribal conventions in Christian and Jewish Arabic / Esther-Miriam Wagner; title: A 19th century CE Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic folk narrative : text, translation and grammatical notes / Magdalen M. Connolly; title: Popular renditions of Hebrew hymns in 19th century Yemen : how a crudely formed, vocalized manuscript codex can provide insights into the local pronunciation and practice of prayer / Rebecca J.W. Jefferson; title: The status quaestionis of research on the Arabic Bible / Ronny Vollandt.