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Title

  • Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew

Summary

  • This volume presents a collection of articles centring on the language of the Mishnah and the Talmud the most important Jewish texts (after the Bible), which were compiled in Palestine and Babylonia in the latter centuries of Late Antiquity. Despite the fact that Rabbinic Hebrew has been the subject of growing academic interest across the past century, very little scholarship has been written on it in English. Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew addresses this lacuna, with eight lucid but technically rigorous articles written in English by a range of experienced scholars, focusing on various aspects of Rabbinic Hebrew: its phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and lexicon. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Rabbinic studies alike, and appears in a new series, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, in collaboration with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Names

  • Heijmans, Shai. editor
  • Open Book Publishers, publisher
  • University of Cambridge

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2020.

Contents

  • Introduction/Shai Heijmans -- 1. Rabba and Rava, Abba and Ava: Spelling, Pronunciation and Meaning/Yochanan Breuer -- 2. The Vocalisation of MS Cambridge of the Mishnah:An Encounter Between Traditions/Yehudit Henshke -- 3. Adjacency Pairs and Argumentative Steps in the Halakhic Give-and-Take Conversations in the Mishnah/Rivka Shemesh-Raiskin -- 4. Tannaitic Aramaic: Methodological Remarks and a Test Case/Christian Stadel -- 5. Rabbinic Entries in R. Judah Ibn-Tibbons Translation of Duties of the Hearts/Barak Avirbach -- 6. The Distinction between Branches of Rabbinic Hebrew in Light of the Hebrew of the Late Midrash/Yehonatan Wormser -- 7. Two Textual Versions of Psiqata of the Ten Commandments/Shlomi Efrati -- 8. Vowel Reduction in Greek Loanwords in the Mishnah: The Phenomenon and Its Significance/Shai Heijmans -- Contributors -- Colophon --Index.

Headings

  • -  Mishnah--Language, style
  • -  Talmud--Language, style
  • -  Greek language--Influence
  • -  Halakhic Midrashim
  • -  Latin language--Influence
  • -  Rabbinical literature--Greek influences

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical reference and index.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website; viewed on 2020-05-27).

Medium

  • 1 online resource (vii, 227 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PJ4908

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020376760

OCLC Number

  • n1155481578

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Heijmans, Shai. Editor, Publisher Open Book Publishers, and University Of Cambridge. Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020376760/.

APA citation style:

Heijmans, S. E., Open Book Publishers, P. & University Of Cambridge. (2020) Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020376760/.

MLA citation style:

Heijmans, Shai. Editor, Publisher Open Book Publishers, and University Of Cambridge. Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020376760/>.