ᵓUṣṣit il-Gumguma or 'The Story of the Skull’

With Parallel Versions, Translation and Linguistic Analysis of Three 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts from Egypt. Supplemented with Arabic Transliteration

AvOlav Ørum

Inbunden, Arabiska, 2017

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In ᵓUṣṣit il-Gumguma Olav G. Ørum translates and analyzes three parallel 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts from Egypt. These manuscripts present a story (whose earliest version is attributed to Kaᶜb al-ᵓAḥbār) 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 Ørum pays special attention to signs of linguistic divergence from the standardized written (fuṣḥā) and spoken (ᶜāmmiyya) 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-10
Mått:155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:491 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Arabiska, Engelska, Hebreiska
Serie:Études sur le judaïsme médiéval
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004345621

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Olav G. Ørum, 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.

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PrefaceAcknowledgementsTechnical Notes and Abbreviations1 Introduction1.1 Judaeo-Arabic Texts: The Presence of a Wide Spectrum of Written and Spoken Varieties1.2 Middle Arabic1.3 Standard Arabic and the Nahḍa1.4 Egyptian Arabic, Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic and Non-Standard Cairene2 The Jews of 19th-Century Cairo and Their Storytelling Tradition2.1 The Jewish Community in Cairo During the 19th Century2.2 On the Story ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma3 Three Parallel Judaeo-Arabic Versions and an English Translation of ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma ‘The Story of the Skull’3.1 Introduction to the Three Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts3.2 Reading Guidelines3.3 ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma ‘The Story of the Skull’4 Linguistic Analysis4.1 Orthography and Phonology4.2 Morphology4.3 Syntax4.4 Lexical Features5 Summary and Concluding Remarks5.1 Orthography and Phonology5.2 Morphology5.3 Syntax5.4 Lexical FeaturesAppendix 1: Arabic Transliteration of the Parallel VersionsAppendix 2: Facsimile of ‘Ramle—Rabbi Yosef Algamil 25’ (GAM)ReferencesIndex