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urn:uuid:97d77c9b-8a15-4d6d-9c60-463f4ba521c0 03 15 9781805115816 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures—A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan Volume 2: The Medieval World, Judaeo-Arabic, and Neo-Aramaic 1 A01 Aaron D. Hornkohl Aaron D. Hornkohl (PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012) is Associate Professor in Hebrew, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on ancient Hebrew philology and linguistics, especially historical linguistics and ancient Hebrew diachrony; the components of the standard Tiberian Masoretic biblical tradition; and that tradition’s profile in the context of other biblical traditions and extrabiblical sources. Most recent publications: The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition (University of Cambridge Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Open Book Publishers, 2023); Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew (University of Cambridge Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Open Book Publishers, 2024). 2 B01 Nadia Vidro Nadia Vidro (PhD, University of Cambridge) is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL, and an Editorial Fellow in the Invisible East programme, Oxford. Dr Vidro’s primary research interests are Hebrew manuscripts and Jewish intellectual history. Her research at UCL focuses on the history of the Jewish calendar. An additional research interest is the history of grammar, including the Karaite tradition of Biblical Hebrew grammar and the transmission of grammatical knowledge between the Jewish and the Muslim cultures. Her monographs include Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kitab al-ʿUqūd fi Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya (Brill, 2011), A Medieval Karaite Pedagogical Grammar of Hebrew: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Kitab al-ʿUqūd fi Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya (Brill, 2013), and Saadya Gaon’s Works on the Jewish Calendar: A Study with Five Critical Editions (Brill, forthcoming). 3 B01 Janet C.E. Watson Janet C. E. Watson (PhD, SOAS) has worked at the Universities of Edinburgh, Durham, and Salford and has held visiting posts at the Universities of Heidelberg (2003–2004) and Oslo (2004–2005). She took up the Leadership Chair for Language at the University of Leeds in 2013 and was that same year elected Fellow of the British Academy. Since 2019, she has directed the Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems (CELCE). She is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews and a Visiting Professor at Sultan Qaboos University. Her current research areas focus on Modern South Arabian and the language–nature relationship. 4 B01 Eleanor Coghill Eleanor Coghill (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Professor in Semitic Languages in the Department of Linguistics and Philology, University of Uppsala. Her work has focused on Aramaic, especially the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic varieties, whose highly endangered status makes documentation a priority. Her research also has a diachronic focus, looking at the development of Aramaic, in particular the effects of language contact. She is also interested in the Arabic dialects of the same region. Among her publications are The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic: Cycles of Alignment Change (Oxford University Press, 2016) and ‘Northeastern Neo-Aramaic and language contact’, in (Anthony Grant, ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact (Oxford University Press 2020). 5 B01 Magdalen M. Connolly Magdalen M. Connolly (PhD, University of Cambridge) was most recently Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, after having completed a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Her areas of interest are Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, historical linguistics, the Cairo Geniza collections, codicology and palaeography of manuscripts, with a special focus on ‘non-standard’ Arabic writing. Among her publications are ‘Splitting Definitives: The Separation of the Definite Article in Medieval and Pre-Modern Written Judeo-Arabic’, Journal of Jewish Languages 9/1 (2021), (with Nick Posegay) ‘A Survey of Personal-Use Qur’an Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah’, Journal of Qur’anic Studies 23/2 (2021), and (with Nick Posegay and Ben Outhwaite) From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit (Brill, 2024). 6 B01 Benjamin M. Outhwaite Ben Outhwaite (PhD, University of Cambridge) has been Head of the Genizah Research Unit in the Cambridge University Library since 2006, where he has the responsibility of running a research team dedicated to the world’s largest and most important single collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts, the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection. His current research interests revolve around Hebrew and its use and transmission in the Middle Ages: the vocalisation traditions of Biblical (and post-biblical) Hebrew, the Medieval Hebrew language (particularly its use as a medium of communication throughout the early Middle Ages), Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic poetry manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah, and the documentary history of the communities who deposited manuscripts there. Recent publications include ‘The Curious Case of the Corresponding Colophons in Codex Cairo 3’, in Linguistic and Philological Studies of the Hebrew Bible and its Manuscripts (Brill, 2023), and ‘Water and Prices: A View of the Nile from the Cairo Genizah’, in The Nile Delta: Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period (Cambridge University Press, 2024). 01 eng 00 976 03 23 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 10 LAN009010 23 Semitic Linguistics 23 Biblical Hebrew 23 Linguistics 10 REL006630 23 Aramaic Manuscripts 10 HIS022000 23 Literature 23 Asian Studies 10 LAN009020 23 Masoretic Studies 23 Judaeo-Arabic Texts 10 REL006410 23 Historical Syntax 10 LAN009000 01 06 03 00 Geoffrey Khan’s pioneering scholarship has transformed the study of Semitic languages, literatures, and cultures, leaving an indelible mark on fields ranging from Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic dialectology to medieval manuscript traditions and linguistic typology. This Festschrift, celebrating a distinguished career that culminated in his tenure (2012–2025) as Regius Professor of Hebrew in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, brings together contributions from a vast and representative array of scholars—retired, established, and up and coming—whose work has been influenced by his vast intellectual legacy.<break/> <break/>Reflecting the interconnected traditions that Khan has illuminated throughout his career, this volume presents cutting-edge research on Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics, historical syntax, manuscript studies, and the transmission of textual traditions across centuries and cultures. Contributors engage with topics central to Khan’s scholarship, including the evolution of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system, the intricacies of Masoretic notation, Geniza discoveries, Samaritan and medieval Judaeo-Arabic texts, and computational approaches to linguistic analysis.<break/> <break/>As Khan retires from his role as Regius Professor, this collection stands as both a tribute and a continuation of his work, honouring his lifelong dedication to understanding and preserving the linguistic and literary heritage of the Semitic world.The content of this book has been updated. 04 00 Contents: Volume I .................................................................... v Contents: Volume II .................................................................. ix Volume II: The Medieval World, Judaeo-Arabic, and Neo Aramaic ..................................................................................... 1 C. The Medieval World and Judaeo-Arabic ............................... 3 Stefan Reif To What Extent is Geniza Research on Jewish Liturgy a Continuation of the Work of Leopold Zunz? .......................... 5 Aharon Maman New Geniza Fragments from the Commentary of R. Isaac b. Samuel al-Kanzī the Sephardi on Joshua and Judges ................................................................................. 31 Benjamin M. Outhwaite The Cacophony of Colophons in the Cairo Codex of the Prophets .............................................................................. 65 Vincent Beiler Does the Cairo Codex Represent a Scribal School? ............ 111 Judith Olszowy-Schlanger Hebrew Script Terminology in Cairo Geniza Book Lists ..... 147 Ronny Vollandt Geniza Book Lists as Indirect Sources of Medieval Jewish Book History in the Near East ................................ 177 Estara Arrant An Exploration of Geniza Targum Fragments as Objects of Personal Study and Everyday Use ................................. 217 Mordechai Akiva Friedman Two Judaeo-Arabic Letters to Abraham Maimonides: A Recommendation and a Condemnation of a Communal Leader ................................................................................ 257 Michael Rand z"l A Fragment of the Maḥberot ʿAzarʾel ben Yosef .................. 287 Nick Posegay Some Notes on Melody: Saʿadya Gaon and Why ‘naghma’ Means ‘vowel’ in Judaeo-Arabic ......................... 311 Tamar Zewi “You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk” in Saʿadya Gaon’s Translation of the Pentateuch ................... 341 Ofra Tirosh-Becker Judaeo-Arabic Translations from the Bible to Robinson Crusoe: Centre versus Periphery ........................................ 363 Wiktor Gębski Comparative Notes on the Jewish Arabic Dialects of Gabes and Djerba (Tunisia) ............................................... 399 Benjamin Hary Written Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic: Implications for the Spoken Variety .................................................................. 429 Gregor Schwarb The Arabic Counterpart of the Byzantine Karaite Treatise Marpe la-ʿAṣem ..................................................... 459 Miriam Goldstein Early Tenth-Century Judaeo-Arabic Exegesis on the Visit to Abraham ............................................................... 489 Nadia Vidro Yūsuf ibn Nūḥ and Yūsuf ibn Baḫtawayh: One Grammarian or Two? ........................................................ 523 José Martínez Delgado A Lexicographical Analysis of Sharḥ al-ʾAlfāẓ by Abū al Faraj Hārūn (Parashat Bereshit) .......................................... 547 Diana Lipton and Meira Polliack Wrestlers before the King: Image and Text in Ancient and Medieval Representations of the First Murder ............ 575 María Ángeles Gallego From Bibliography to History: The Early Study of Andalusi Judaism in the Modern Era ................................. 611 D. Neo-Aramaic ..................................................................... 639 Steven E. Fassberg Neo-Aramaic 2MS and 2FS Genitive Pronominal Suffixes in the Light of Earlier Aramaic .......................................... 641 Samuel Fox Being Born in Neo-Aramaic ............................................... 655 Alessandro Mengozzi Not Such a Dummy or Otiose After All: NENA Verbs with Non-referential 3FS Object Pronouns ......................... 673 Phillip Yu. Burlakov, Anna S. Cherkashina, Charles G. Häberl, and Sergey V. Loesov The Church Militant: A Modern Western Aramaic Account ............................................................................. 695 Otto Jastrow A Syriac Christian in the Turkish Army: A Text in the Ṭuroyo Dialect of Midin .................................................... 721 Charles G. Häberl War and Fieldwork ............................................................ 739 Dorota Molin Indefiniteness Marking: NENA and Its Areal and Semitic Parallels ............................................................................ 755 Paul M. Noorlander Miracles of Saint Ephrem: Legends in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Umra d-Shish .................................................... 785 Lidia Napiorkowska Relating Morphological and Sociolinguistic Variety in Modern Hebrew to Neo-Aramaic ....................................... 823 Eleanor Coghill The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Tin ................. 855 Hezy Mutzafi Five Enigmatic Neo-Aramaic Lexemes and Their Possible Etymologies ......................................................... 895 Werner Arnold Animals in the Western Neo-Aramaic Proverbs of Maʿlūla .............................................................................. 923 Index ..................................................................................... 931 Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20250307 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805115793 06 15 9781805115809 06 15 9781805115816 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 01