Studies in rabbinic Hebrew / / edited by Shai Heijmans.

• Superior document: Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures
• TeilnehmendeR: Heijmans, Shai,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, England : : Open Book Publishers,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

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. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher’s website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found here: www.openbookpublishers.com