ʼUṣṣit il-gumguma, or, 'The story of the skull' : : with parallel versions, translation and linguistic analysis of three 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts from Egypt. supplemented with Arabic transliteration / / by Olav G. Orum.

• Author: Orum, Olav G.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English; Judeo-Arabic
• Series: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 70.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (223 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Story of the skull; Front Matter /; Introduction /; The Jews of 19th-Century Cairo and Their Storytelling Tradition /; Three Parallel Judaeo-Arabic Versions and an English Translation of ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma 'The Story of the Skull' /; Linguistic Analysis /; Summary and Concluding Remarks /; Arabic Transliteration of the Parallel Versions /; Facsimile of 'Ramle-Rabbi Yosef Algamil 25' (GAM) /; References /; Index /; Qiṣṣat al-jumjumah.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004345639
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Olav G. Orum.

In ᵓUṣṣit il-Gumguma Olav G. Ørum translates and analyzes three parallel 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts from Egypt. These manuscripts present a story (whose earliest version is attributed to Kaᶜb al-ᵓAḥbār) about Jesus reviving the skull of a deceased king. The skull narrates his encounter with the Angel of Death, a painful purgatory and descension to hell. The manuscripts reveal a wide spectrum of interesting written and spoken Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic variety features in which Ørum pays special attention to signs of linguistic divergence from the standardized written ( fuṣḥā ) and spoken ( ᶜāmmiyya ) variety. The unique sociolinguistic situation of the Jewish Egyptian community makes this book an important contribution to those working on Judaeo-Arabic in general, but also for students or scholars interested in Egyptian Arabic historical dialectology and sociolinguistics.