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.

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Olav G. Ørum -- Introduction / Olav G. Ørum -- The Jews of 19th-Century Cairo and Their Storytelling Tradition / Olav G. Ørum -- Three Parallel Judaeo-Arabic Versions and an English Translation of ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma 'The Story of the Skull' / Olav G. Ørum -- Linguistic Analysis / Olav G. Ørum -- Summary and Concluding Remarks / Olav G. Ørum -- Arabic Transliteration of the Parallel Versions / Olav G. Ørum -- Facsimile of 'Ramle-Rabbi Yosef Algamil 25' (GAM) / Olav G. Ørum -- References / Olav G. Ørum -- Index / Olav G. Ørum.