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OverviewIn Ussit il-Gumguma Olav G. Orum translates and analyzes three parallel 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts from Egypt. These manuscripts present a story (whose earliest version is attributed to Ka b al- Ahbar) 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 Orum pays special attention to signs of linguistic divergence from the standardized written (fusha) and spoken ( ammiyya) 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Olav OrumPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 70 Weight: 0.491kg ISBN: 9789004345621ISBN 10: 9004345620 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 10 August 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Technical Notes and Abbreviations 1 Introduction â 1.1â Judaeo-Arabic Texts: The Presence of a Wide Spectrum of Written and Spoken Varieties â 1.2â Middle Arabic â 1.3â Standard Arabic and the Nahda â 1.4â Egyptian Arabic, Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic and Non-Standard Cairene 2 The Jews of 19th-Century Cairo and Their Storytelling Tradition â 2.1â The Jewish Community in Cairo During the 19th Century â 2.2â On the Story ʾUssit il-Gumguma 3 Three Parallel Judaeo-Arabic Versions and an English Translation of ʾUssit il-Gumguma `The Story of the Skull' â 3.1â Introduction to the Three Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts â 3.2â Reading Guidelines â 3.3â ʾUssit il-Gumguma `The Story of the Skull' 4 Linguistic Analysis â 4.1â Orthography and Phonology â 4.2â Morphology â 4.3â Syntax â 4.4â Lexical Features 5 Summary and Concluding Remarks â 5.1â Orthography and Phonology â 5.2â Morphology â 5.3â Syntax â 5.4â Lexical Features Appendix 1: Arabic Transliteration of the Parallel Versions Appendix 2: Facsimile of `Ramle-Rabbi Yosef Algamil 25' (GAM) References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationOlav G. Orum, M.A. (2014), University of Oslo, is a Ph.D.-fellow at that university. This is his first major publication. He is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic prophetic legends, to be finished in 2018. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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