Studies in Semitic linguistics and manuscripts : a liber discipulorum in honour of Professor Geoffrey Khan / edited by Nadia Vidro, Ronny Vollandt, Esther-Miriam Wagner and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khan, Geoffrey, honouree.

Vidro, Nadia, editor.

Vollandt, Ronny, editor.

Wagner, Esther-Miriam, editor.

Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith, editor.

Series:

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia ; 0585-5535 30.

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia, 0585-5535 ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Khan, Geoffrey.

Semitic philology.

Semitic languages.

Manuscripts, Semitic (Papyri).

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

467 pages : Illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Uppsala, Sweden : Uppsala University Library, 2018.

Contents:

Semitic long /i/ vowels in the Greek of Codex Vaticanus of the New Testament / Peter J Williams

Biblical Hebrew tense-aspect-mood, word order and pragmatics : some observations on recent approaches / Aaron D. Hornkohl

Long or short? : the use of long and short Wayyiqṭols in Biblical, parabiblical and commentary scrolls from Qumran / Johan M. V. Lundberg

Unmarked modality and rhetorical questions in Biblical Hebrew / Elizabeth Robar

The Shewa in the first of two identical letters and the compound Babylonian vocalisation / Shai Heijmans

[Hebrew title] : some notes on the vocalisation of the definite article in Tiberian Hebrew / Daniel Birnstiel

The use of dageš in the non-standard Tiberian manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible from the Cairo Genizah / Samuel Blapp

The Ashkenazic Hebrew of Nathan Nata Hannover's Yeven Meṣula (1653) / Lily Kahn

Medieval Jewish exegetical insights into the use of infinitive absolute as the equivalent of a preceding finite form / Fiona Blumfield

Implementation as innovation : the Arabic terms Qiṣṣa and K̲abar in medieval Karaite interpretation of Biblical narrative and its redaction history / Meira Polliack

Patterns of diffusion of phonological change in the north-eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect of Azran / Lidia Napiorkowska

The Neo-Aramaic dialect of Telkepe / Eleanor Coghill

'The King and the wazir' : a folk-tale in the Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho / Oz Aloni

Crossing palaeographical borders : bi-alphabetical scribes and the development of Hebrew script : the case of the Maghrebi cursive / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Beyond the Leningrad codex : Samuel b. Jacob in the Cairo Genizah / Benjamin M. Outhwaite

Arabic vocalisation in Judaeo-Arabic grammars of classical Arabic / Nadia Vidro

The structural and linguistic features of three Hebrew begging letters from the Cairo Genizah / Estara J. Arrant

Birds of a feather? : Arabic scribal conventions in Christian and Jewish Arabic / Esther-Miriam Wagner

A 19th century CE Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic folk narrative : text, translation and grammatical notes / Magdalen M. Connolly

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

The status quaestionis of research on the Arabic Bible / Ronny Vollandt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789151302904

915130290X

OCLC:

1039780166