Interconnected Traditions : Volume 1: Hebrew and the Wider Semitic World.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hornkohl, Aaron D., author.

Contributor:

Vidro, Nadia.

Watson, Janet C. E.

Coghill, Eleanor.

Connolly, Magdalen M.

Outhwaite, Ben.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semitic philology.

Linguistics--History.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (940 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2025.

Summary:

Geoffrey Khan's pioneering scholarship has transformed the study of Semitic languages, literatures, and cultures, leaving an indelible mark on fields ranging from Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic dialectology to medieval manuscript traditions and linguistic typology. This Festschrift, celebrating a distinguished career that culminated in his tenure (2012-2025) as Regius Professor of Hebrew in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, brings together contributions from a vast and representative array of scholars-retired, established, and up and coming-whose work has been influenced by his vast intellectual legacy. Reflecting the interconnected traditions that Khan has illuminated throughout his career, this volume presents cutting-edge research on Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics, historical syntax, manuscript studies, and the transmission of textual traditions across centuries and cultures. Contributors engage with topics central to Khan's scholarship, including the evolution of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system, the intricacies of Masoretic notation, Geniza discoveries, Samaritan and medieval Judaeo-Arabic texts, and computational approaches to linguistic analysis. As Khan retires from his role as Regius Professor, this collection stands as both a tribute and a continuation of his work, honouring his lifelong dedication to understanding and preserving the linguistic and literary heritage of the Semitic world.

Contents:

Preface: A Tribute to Geoffrey Khan, Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge

Geoffrey Khan's Contribution to the Problem of Biblical Hebrew Consecutive weqaṭal

The Origins of Wayyiqṭol: A First-person Account

Fronting in the Protases of ם ִא Conditionals

(pp. 69-98)

Christo H. J. van der Merwe

Considerations for the Design of Dependency Treebanks for Linguistic Research in Biblical Hebrew

Notes on the Reciprocal Function of Nifʿal in Biblical Hebrew

Healed by 'his wound(s)', 'his bruising', or 'in his company'? Isaiah 53.5 and Dagesh Mavḥin

Why Do Psalms, Proverbs, and Job Use Different Accents?

The Pronunciation of וּרְכְז ִ ת (Num. 15.40) in Rabbinic Sources and in Light of Phoenician*

A Case for Distributive Quantification of kol in Biblical Hebrew

Kol as a Universal Quantifier in Biblical Hebrew

A More Polite Suggestion: The Lengthened Imperative in Biblical Hebrew

Lexis-coding Orthography in 4QISAM (4Q66)*

The Vocabulary of the Samaritan Pentateuch: A General Overview

Some Cases of Grammaticalisation in Mishnaic Hebrew and Their Diachronic Implications

Rabbinic Hebrew kyd ~ ʿkyd: Insights from Palestinian Arabic

The Realisation of Ṣere in Contemporary Hebrew: Monophthongal or Diphthongal?

The Bible and Modern Hebrew

Alphabetical Order and Alphabetical Thinking in the East and West: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages

"Every glance of their eyes-like a flame, two flames": A Case of Ugaritic Gt ʾmr 'see' Reconsidered

Loan Translation or Independent Development: The Figura Etymologica in Semitic and in Yiddish

On the Pronunciation of Sacred Names

The Shape of the Teen Numerals in Central Semitic

The Gender of Paired Body Parts in Semitic

Fieldwork: Chance, Choice, Change

'The Cobbler Made Money from the Town of ʿIfač': A Satirical Poem in Iraqi Arabic on Corruption in the Iraqi Parliament

Attributive Possession in Soqotri: The Evidence of the 'Vienna Corpus'

Christian Palestinian Aramaic between Greek and Arabic

Aramaic: Lingua Franca, Koine, or Both?

Arabic Spells against Menstrual Bleeding in Mandaic Script

Dots and Word Stress in Classical East Syriac

The Late Western Aramaic Suffixing of Pronominal Direct Objects via -t- < /yāt/.

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ISBN:

9781805115786

1805115782

OCLC:

1507697307