Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths

Nadia Vidro, PhD (2009), is a research associate at the University College London. She has published two monographs and articles on the Karaite grammatical tradition, including A Medieval Karaite Pedagogical Grammar of Hebrew: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya (Brill, 2013).Irene E. Zwiep, PhD (1995), holds the chair of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Focusing on intellectual history, her research interests include medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistic thought, Jewish Enlightenment and the early Wissenschaft des Judentums.Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, PhD (1995), holds the chair of Hebrew Manuscript Studies, at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Her main research interests and publications concern Hebrew palaeography and diplomatics as well as Hebrew grammatical thought, both among Karaites and medieval Christian Hebraists.

• Introduction: Paradigms We Live By Irene E. ZwiepI. INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS OF HEBREW LINGUISTICSa. Theories and Practices of Linguistic AnalysisGeoffrey Khan, The medieval Karaite tradition of Hebrew grammarJosé Martínez Delgado, Morphology versus meaning: biblical mixed roots and Andalusian Hebrew lexicographical theoriesRonny Vollandt, Whether to capture form or meaning: a typology of early Judaeo-Arabic Pentateuch translationsIrene E. Zwiep, The impact of teytsh on diqduq, or: why the metaphor became a noun in early modern Ashkenazi linguisticsb. Development of Hebrew TerminologyJudith Kogel, Towards a ‘mapping’ of the Hebrew grammatical terminology of the Middle Ages: a history of transmissionIlana Wartenberg, The birth of the medieval Hebrew mathematical language as manifest in Ibn al-Aḥdab Epistle of the NumberII. THE LEGACY OF MEDIEVAL HEBREW LINGUISTICSa. Jewish Modes of Preservation and TransmissionMauro Perani, Fragments of linguistic works from the Italian GenizaStefan C. Reif, Another glance at a gifted grammarian: more on Shabbethai Sofer of Przemyslb. Crossing Faiths, Crossing DisciplinesJudith Olszowy-Schlanger, “With that, you can grasp all the Hebrew language”: Hebrew sources of an anonymous Hebrew-Latin grammar from thirteenth-century EnglandSaverio Campanini, The quest for the holiest alphabet in the Renaissance