Benjamin H Hary (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval; 9.50 X 6.30 X 1.10 inches; 338 pages.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Translations of Hebrew and Aramaic sacred texts into Jewish languages, religiolects, and varieties have been widespread throughout the Jewish world. This volume is a study of the genre of these translations, known as the sar?, into Judeo-Arabic in Egypt in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The study places Judeo-Arabic along the Jewish linguistic spectrum, traces its history and offers insights to the spoken variety of Egyptian Judeo-Arabic, which set it apart from other Arabic dialects. The book also provides a linguistic model of the translation of the sacred texts. Rather than viewing the translation as only verbatim, the study traces in great detail the literal/interpretive linguistic tension with which the translators struggled in their work.…

Leiden, New Tork & Köln, E.J. Brill, 1992. XVII,259 pp. B./w. figs. Orig. hardcover (blind stamped green cloth with gilt lettering), d./j. 8vo. ('Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval, Vol. 14). - A neat copy. As new.This volume contains a study of multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic in addition to a critical edition, annotated translation, and a cultural and a grammatical study of The Purim Scroll of the Cairene Jewish Community, written in 1524 to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews of Cairo from Ahmad Pasha, the governor of Egypt. 'Multiglossia' is a linguistic state in which different varieties of a language exist side by side in a language community and are used under different circumstances or with various functions. 'Judeo-Arabic' has been written and spoken in various forms by Jews throughout the Arabic-speaking world. - Adapted from the author's dissertation, Berkeley, 1987. - Sold out at the publisher.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 438 pages. 10.00x6.75x1.25 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.