Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions - cover image

Book Series

Copyright

Aaron Hornkohl; Geoffrey Khan

Published On

2020-06-01

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-935-5
Hardback978-1-78374-936-2
PDF978-1-78374-937-9

Language

  • English

Print Length

711 pages (xxiv+687)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 36 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.43" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 52 x 234 mm(6.14" x 2.06" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback2171g (76.58oz)
Hardback3355g (118.34oz)

Media

Illustrations4

OCLC Number

1156322478

LCCN

2019394570

BIC

  • CFF
  • CFP

BISAC

  • REL006020
  • LAN009010

LCC

  • PJ3023

Keywords

  • pronunciation of Semitic languages
  • representation of Semitic languages pronunciation
  • from late antiquity until the Middle Ages
  • reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew
  • vocalisation notation systems
  • Punic traditions of Hebrew
  • Biblical Aramaic traditions of Hebrew
  • Syriac traditions of Hebrew
  • Arabic traditions of Hebrew
  • post-biblical traditions of Hebrew
  • piyyuṭ
  • medieval Hebrew poetry

Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions

This volume brings together papers relating to the pronunciation of Semitic languages and the representation of their pronunciation in written form. The papers focus on sources representative of a period that stretches from late antiquity until the Middle Ages. A large proportion of them concern reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew, especially the vocalisation notation systems used to represent them. Also discussed are orthography and the written representation of prosody.

Beyond Biblical Hebrew, there are studies concerning Punic, Biblical Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic, as well as post-biblical traditions of Hebrew such as piyyuṭ and medieval Hebrew poetry. There were many parallels and interactions between these various language traditions and the volume demonstrates that important insights can be gained from such a wide range of perspectives across different historical periods.

Contents

Vowel Quantity and Quality in Neo-Punic and Latin Inscriptions from Africa and Sardinia

(pp. 1–54)
  • Robert Samuel David Crellin
  • Lucia Tamponi

The Development of the Hebrew Wayyiqṭol Verbal Form ('Waw Consecutive') in Light of Greek and Latin Transcriptions of Hebrew

(pp. 55–132)
  • Benjamin Kantor

The Representation of Gutturals by Vowels in the LXX of 2 Esdras

(pp. 133–146)
  • Peter Myers

Biblical Quotations in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Their Contribution to the Study of the Babylonian Reading Tradition

(pp. 147–170)
  • Dorota Molin

Phonological Adaptation and the Biblical Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew Reflexes of *i and *u

(pp. 171–190)
  • Benjamin D. Suchard

Connecting the Dots: The Shared Phonological Tradition in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew Vocalisation

(pp. 191–226)
  • Nick Posegay

Discord between the Tiberian Written and Reading Traditions: Two Case Studies

(pp. 227–280)
  • Aaron D. Hornkohl

Qere and Ketiv in the Exegesis of the Karaites and Saadya Gaon

(pp. 281–330)
  • Joseph Habib

Pausal Forms and Prosodic Structure in Tiberian Hebrew

(pp. 331–378)
  • Vincent DeCaen
  • B. Elan Dresher

Samuel ben Jacob’s Treatment of Exceptional Vocalic Shewas

(pp. 379–404)
  • Kim Phillips

The Tiberian Tradition in Common Bibles from the Cairo Genizah

(pp. 405–466)
  • Benjamin Outhwaite

An Exploratory Typology of Near-Model and Non-Standard Tiberian Torah Manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah

(pp. 467–548)
  • Estara Arrant

Some Features of the Imperfect Oral Performance of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew in the Middle Agess

(pp. 549–592)
  • Geoffrey Khan

On Some Variants in Ashkenazic Biblical Manuscripts from the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

(pp. 593–616)
  • Élodie Attia

The Prosodic Models of Andalusi Hebrew Metrics

(pp. 617–656)
  • José Martínez Delgado

Marginalia to the Qillirian Rhyme System

(pp. 657–676)
  • Michael Rand

Preface

(pp. xv–xxiv)
  • Aaron D. Hornkohl
  • Geoffrey Khan

Contributors

Aaron D. Hornkohl

(editor)
https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-aaron-d-hornkohl

Dr Hornkohl has a MA in Bible and Its World, Rothberg International School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD from the same university. He teaches courses in ancient and modern Hebrew literature and language, and history of the Hebrew language as well as courses relating to the history and culture of the Middle East at the University of Cambridge.

Geoffrey Khan

(editor)
Regius Professor of Hebrew at University of Cambridge
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2550-9896

Geoffrey Khan (PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1984) is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. His research publications focus on three main fields: Biblical Hebrew language (especially medieval traditions), Neo-Aramaic dialectology, and medieval Arabic documents. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2013) and is the senior editor of Journal of Semitic Studies. His recent publications include The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Cambridge: University of Cambridge & Open Book Publishers, 2020, Performance of Sacred Semitic Texts (editor, with co-editor Hindy Najman), Dead Sea Discoveries 29, Brill. 2022, and Language Contact in Sanandaj (co-authored with Masoud Mohammadirad), Berlin, de Gruyter, 2024.