The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho.
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 co...
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| Superior document: | Semitic Languages and Cultures Series ; v.11 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2022. Ã2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Semitic Languages and Cultures Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (370 pages) |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781800643048 9781800643031 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |