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urn:uuid:f1563c51-f671-4840-a242-b4f0e2f21c0c 03 15 9781805115786 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures—A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan Volume 1: Hebrew and the Wider Semitic World 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 00 960 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.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.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 ................................................................ viii Preface: A Tribute to Geoffrey Khan, Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge ................................................................. xv Volume I: Hebrew, Comparative Semitics, and the Semitic Languages ................................................................................. 1 A. Hebrew ................................................................................. 3 Bo Isaksson Geoffrey Khan’s Contribution to the Problem of Biblical Hebrew Consecutive weqaṭal ................................................. 5 Aaron D. Hornkohl The Origins of Wayyiqṭol: A First-person Account ................ 37 Christo van der Merwe Fronting in the Protases of ם ִא Conditionals ......................... 69 Robert S. D. Crellin Considerations for the Design of Dependency Treebanks for Linguistic Research in Biblical Hebrew .......................... 99 Ambjörn Sjörs Notes on the Reciprocal Function of Nifʿal in Biblical Hebrew .............................................................................. 131 Benjamin Kantor Healed by ‘his wound(s)’, ‘his bruising’, or ‘in his company’?: Isaiah 53.5 and Dagesh Mavḥin ....................... 157 Elizabeth Robar Why Do Psalms, Proverbs, and Job Use Different Accents? ............................................................................ 189 Gary A. Rendsburg The Pronunciation of וּרְכְז ִ ת (Num. 15.40) in Rabbinic Sources and in Light of Phoenician ................................... 223 Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé and Jacobus A. Naudé A Case for Distributive Quantification of kol in Biblical Hebrew ............................................................................. 259 Adina Moshavi Kol as a Universal Quantifier in Biblical Hebrew............... 291 Ethan Jones A More Polite Suggestion: The Lengthened Imperative in Biblical Hebrew ............................................................ 331 Noam Mizrahi Lexis-coding Orthography in 4QIsam (4Q66) ..................... 359 Moshe Florentin The Vocabulary of the Samaritan Pentateuch: A General Overview ........................................................................... 385 Edward Cook Some Cases of Grammaticalisation in Mishnaic Hebrew and Their Diachronic Implications .................................... 403 Mila Neishtadt Rabbinic Hebrew kyd ~ ʿkyd: Insights from Palestinian Arabic ............................................................................... 421 Yehudit Henshke The Realisation of Ṣere in Contemporary Hebrew: Monophthongal or Diphthongal? ....................................... 455 Yaron Peleg The Bible and Modern Hebrew .......................................... 479 B. Comparative Semitics and the Semitic Languages ............. 489 Aaron J. Koller Alphabetical Order and Alphabetical Thinking in the East and West: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages ............ 491 Tania Notarius “Every glance of their eyes—like a flame, two flames”: A Case of Ugaritic Gt ʾmr ‘see’ Reconsidered...................... 529 Lutz Edzard Loan Translation or Independent Development: The Figura Etymologica in Semitic and in Yiddish ................... 555 Simon Hopkins On the Pronunciation of Sacred Names ............................. 577 Benjamin Suchard The Shape of the Teen Numerals in Central Semitic .......... 611 Na‘ama Pat-El The Gender of Paired Body Parts in Semitic ...................... 631 Janet C. E. Watson Fieldwork: Chance, Choice, Change ................................... 661 Clive Holes ‘The Cobbler Made Money from the Town of ʿIfač’: A Satirical Poem in Iraqi Arabic on Corruption in the Iraqi Parliament......................................................................... 681 Leonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh Attributive Possession in Soqotri: The Evidence of the ‘Vienna Corpus’ ................................................................. 695 Holger Gzella Christian Palestinian Aramaic between Greek and Arabic ............................................................................... 747 John Healey Aramaic: Lingua Franca, Koine, or Both? .......................... 771 Matthew Morgenstern and Tom Alfia Arabic Spells against Menstrual Bleeding in Mandaic Script ................................................................................ 797 Johan Lundberg Dots and Word Stress in Classical East Syriac .................... 821 Ivri Bunis The Late Western Aramaic Suffixing of Pronominal Direct Objects via -t- < /yāt/ ............................................ 843 Viktor Golinets The Significance of the Newly Found Amorite– Akkadian Bilinguals for Hebrew Lexicography ................. 879 Index ..................................................................................... 901 Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20250307 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805115762 06 15 9781805115779 06 15 9781805115786 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 01