Middle Western Karaim : : a critical edition and linguistic analysis of the pre-19th-century Karaim interpretations of Hebrew piyyutim / / by Michał Németh.

• Superior document: The Languages of Asia Series ; Volume 22
• VerfasserIn: Németh, Michał, 1980-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Languages of Asia series ; 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This volume offers the first comprehensive study on the history of Middle Western Karaim dialects. The author provides a systematic description of sound changes dating from the 17th–19th-centuries and reconstructs their absolute- and relative chronologies. In addition, the main morphological peculiarities are presented in juxtaposition to Modern Western Karaim data. The textual basis for this historical-linguistic investigation is a critical edition of pre-1800 Western Karaim interpretations of Hebrew religious songs called piyyutim (147 texts altogether). The reason behind this choice is that some of these texts are among the oldest known Western Karaim texts in general, and that until now no study has brought the Karaim translation tradition in this genre closer to the reader.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Authors and the Copyists of the peshatim Edited -- 3. Linguistic Description -- 4. Introduction to the peshatim -- The peshatim: Text and Translation -- Lexicographical Addenda -- Hebrew Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Facsimiles.