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Book SynopsisA Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths reflects on medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistics as a discipline that crossed geographic and religious borders and linked up with a plethora of scholarly activities, from Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations to the Renaissance search for the holiest alphabet. This collection of articles presents a cross-section of new research avenues on Hebraism, Karaite, Rabbanite and Christian, with an emphasis on the transmission of linguistic ideas through time and space among different communities, cultures and religious currents. The resulting picture is one of intrinsic variation and dynamic growth as opposed to the linear paradigm of development, culmination and stagnation current in the historiography of Hebrew linguistics.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Paradigms We Live By Irene E. Zwiep I. INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS OF HEBREW LINGUISTICS a. Theories and Practices of Linguistic Analysis Geoffrey Khan, The medieval Karaite tradition of Hebrew grammar José Martínez Delgado, Morphology versus meaning: biblical mixed roots and Andalusian Hebrew lexicographical theories Ronny Vollandt, Whether to capture form or meaning: a typology of early Judaeo-Arabic Pentateuch translations Irene E. Zwiep, The impact of teytsh on diqduq, or: why the metaphor became a noun in early modern Ashkenazi linguistics b. Development of Hebrew Terminology Judith Kogel, Towards a ‘mapping’ of the Hebrew grammatical terminology of the Middle Ages: a history of transmission Ilana Wartenberg, The birth of the medieval Hebrew mathematical language as manifest in Ibn al-Aḥdab Epistle of the Number II. THE LEGACY OF MEDIEVAL HEBREW LINGUISTICS a. Jewish Modes of Preservation and Transmission Mauro Perani, Fragments of linguistic works from the Italian Geniza Stefan C. Reif, Another glance at a gifted grammarian: more on Shabbethai Sofer of Przemysl b. Crossing Faiths, Crossing Disciplines Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, “With that, you can grasp all the Hebrew language”: Hebrew sources of an anonymous Hebrew-Latin grammar from thirteenth-century England Saverio Campanini, The quest for the holiest alphabet in the Renaissance
