Multiglossia in Judeio-Arabic. With an Edition, Translation, and Grammatical Study of the Cairene Purim Scroll

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Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface TECHNICAL NOTES PART ONE THE ANALYTIC INTRODUCTION Chapter I - The Mechanisms of Arabic Multiglossia Introduction Diglossia According to Ferguson Multiglossia vs. Bilingualism Distinct Varieties vs. Continuum The Variables A Model of Arabic Multiglossia Summary Chapter II - The Beginnings of Arabic Multiglossia The Types of Arabic Excursus - Parallel Development of Later Semitic Languages The Differences between Old and New Arabic Two Theories about the Beginnings of Arabic Multiglossia Arguments in Favor of Theory 1 Arguments in Support of Theory 2 Summary of Versteegh Chapter III - Middle Arabic Multiglossia in Middle Arabic The Terminology of Middle Arabic New Terms for Middle Arabic The Nature of the Texts in “Literary Written Middle Arabic” The Analytic Structure of Middle Arabic The History of Arabic Multiglossia The Issue of Pseudo-Corrections The Differences between Hyper-Corrections and Hypo-Corrections The Standardization of pseudo-corrections The Issue of Authenticity The Importance of Pseudo-Corrections to the study of Middle Arabic Summary Chapter IV - Judeo-Arabic Jewish Languages Judeo-Arabic The Periods of Judeo-Arabic Multiglossia and Terminology in Judeo-Arabic The Orthographic Traditions of Judeo-Arabic The Importance of Judeo-Arabic Orthography The Orthographic Tradition of Later Egyptian Judeo-Arabic The Hebrew and the Aramaic Influence Closer Phonetic Representation The Continued Influence of Classical Orthography The Notion of Personal Orthographic Style (Schreiberschule) The Status of Judeo-Arabic Summary Chapter V - The Purim of the Cairene Jewish Community Introduction The Historical Events Descriptions of the Historical Events in the Writings of Pre-Modern Jewish Scholars Contemporary Scholarship “Special Purim” in Jewish Tradition The Genre of “Megillot” (Scrolls) in Jewish Literature The Author of “The Purim Scroll of the Cairene Jewish Community” Egyptian or Cairene Purim? Manuscripts and Printed Editions of the Megillah Publication of the Megillah: Version A Publication of the Megillah: Version B PART TWO THE TEXTS AND THE TRANSLATIONS Chapter VI - The Critical Text of Version A The Manuscripts Biblical References The Editing The Critical Text: [ARABIC TEXT]/[ARABIC TEXT] Section One Section Two Section Three Section Four The Translation Section One Section Two Section Three Section Four Chapter VII-The Critical Text of Version B The Manuscripts Other Sources The Editing [ARABIC TEXT] The Translation PART THREE THE GRAMMAR AND THE LINGUISTIC BACKGROUND Chapter VIII - Grammar and Linguistic Background of the Purim Scroll of the Cairene Jewish Community Introduction The Language of the Judeo-Arabic Text I. Orthography and Phonetics General The Vowels The short vowels Dagger ‘alif The long vowels Diphthongs ‘Alif maqṣüra biṣürati l-yā The Consonants General Hamza The shif t > ṭ A linguistic shift in progress The Arabic letter ? Classical Arabic interdentals The shift š > s The spelling of ṣād, ḍād and ẓā’ The Arabic phoneme ġayn The Arabic phoneme fā’ The Arabic qāf The Arabic phoneme kāf The consonants w and y Tā’ marbūṭa Foreign phonemes Other Orthographic and Phonetic Matters Vocalized text The tašdīd The’ alif al-fāṣila Final’ alif The definite article The conjunction particle fa- The adverb ayḍan The combination of ? II. Morphology The Pronouns The independent pronouns Pronominal suffixes Demonstrative pronouns Interrogative pronouns The Verb The perfect subject markers The imperfect The imperative The passive Form I Form II Form IV Form VI Form VII Form II/X Form itfa ‘ al Quadrilateral verbs The Dual and the Sound Plural The dual noun The nūn III. Syntax The Verb Verbs with two objects The imperfect verb The participle Agreement Agreement with verbs Other matters of agreement Negation The use of [ARABIC TEXT] Other negative particles in the Megillah The cases The accusative case The case of the dual and the m. sound pl The ’iḍāfa The analytic ‘iḍāfa The first term of the ‘iḍāfa with a definite article False ‘iḍāfa The Numerals The numerals with counted nouns The numerals with definite counted nouns Prepositions ‘Ilā and li Coordinating Conjunction [ARABIC TEXT] [ARABIC TEXT] Syndetic and Asyndetic Clauses Syndetic clauses Asyndetic clauses [ARABIC TEXT] in the Megillah Relative Clauses The relative pronoun Asyndetic relative clauses Syndetic relative clauses Direct relative clause Miscellaneous Syntactic Matters Pronoun reduplication Topicalization Direct and indirect speech IV. Pseudo-Corrections Hyper-Corrections Hypo-Corrections V. Lexicon Colloquial Egyptian Influence Hebrew Lexemes Abbreviations and Acronyms The Choice of the Scribes Change of lexeme use Historical change Change in language layer Paraphrasing Preference of reflexive forms Change in use of prepositions R and M as late manuscripts VI. Summary Prospective Research Bibliography General Index Index of Biblical References ÉTUDES SUR LE JUDAΪSME MEDIÉVAL