The Neo-Aramaic oral heritage of the Jews of Zakho
By: Oz Aloni
Contributors: Khan,Geoffrey, series editor; Open Book Publishers
Series: Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures
Publisher: Open Books Publishers
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781800643048
Subjects: Aramaic language; Dialects; Texts; Jews; Languages; Kurdish Jews; Juifs kurdes; Langues; Textes
Description: Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community's oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale. Each chapter draws on the author's own fieldwork among members of the Zakho community now living in Jerusalem. He examines the proverb in its performative context, the rewritten biblical narrative of Ruth, Naomi and King David, and a folktale with the unusual theme of magical gender transformation. Insightfully breaking down these examples with analysis drawn from a variety of conceptual fields, Aloni succeeds in his mission to put the speakers of the language and their culture on equal footing with their speech.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (317-341) and index.

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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2022).
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Contents; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1: Proverbs; title: Chapter 2: Enriched Biblical Narratives; title: Chapter 3: A Folktale; title: Closing Remarks; title: References; title: Index.