Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew / / edited by Shai Heijmans.

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...

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Superior document:Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures ; 2
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2020.
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures ; 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 227 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction/Shai Heijmans
  • 1. Rabba and Rava, Abba and Ava: Spelling, Pronunciation and Meaning/Yochanan Breuer
  • 2. The Vocalisation of MS Cambridge of the Mishnah:An Encounter Between Traditions/Yehudit Henshke
  • 3. Adjacency Pairs and Argumentative Steps in the Halakhic Give-and-Take Conversations in the Mishnah/Rivka Shemesh-Raiskin
  • 4. Tannaitic Aramaic: Methodological Remarks and a Test Case/Christian Stadel
  • 5. Rabbinic Entries in R. Judah Ibn-Tibbons Translation of Duties of the Hearts/Barak Avirbach
  • 6. The Distinction between Branches of Rabbinic Hebrew in Light of the Hebrew of the Late Midrash/Yehonatan Wormser
  • 7. Two Textual Versions of Psiqata of the Ten Commandments/Shlomi Efrati
  • 8. Vowel Reduction in Greek Loanwords in the Mishnah: The Phenomenon and Its Significance/Shai Heijmans
  • Contributors
  • Colophon
  • Index.