ʼUṣṣit 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 /

ʼUṣṣit 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 /

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Author / Creator:Orum, Olav G., author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
©2017
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Judeo-Arabic
Series:Etudes sur le judaisme medieval ; 70
Subject:
Judeo-Arabic language -- Dialects -- Egypt -- Texts.
Judeo-Arabic literature -- Egypt -- History and criticism.
Jews -- Egypt -- Languages.
Arabic language -- Dialects.
Arabic language -- Dialects.
Jews -- Languages.
Judeo-Arabic language -- Dialects.
Judeo-Arabic literature.
Egypt.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Texts.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12017581
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Varying Form of Title:Story of the skull
Other uniform titles:Qiṣṣat al-jumjumah.
ISBN:9789004345638
9004345639
9789004345621
9004345620
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Orum, Olav G. ʼUṣṣit il-gumguma, or, 'The story of the skull'. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004345621

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