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.
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 w...
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017] |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English Judeo-Arabic |
Series: | Études sur le judaïsme médiéval
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (223 pages) :; illustrations. |
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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. |
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Summary: | 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. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9004345639 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | by Olav G. Orum. |