ISSN Print: 2632-6906
ISSN Digital: 2632-6914
Cambridge Semitic Language and Cultures is a new book series in collaboration with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. This series includes philological and linguistic studies of Semitic languages, editions of Semitic texts, and studies of Semitic cultures. Titles in the series will cover all periods, traditions and methodological approaches to the field. The editorial board comprises Geoffrey Khan, Aaron Hornkohl, and Esther-Miriam Wagner.
This is the first Open Access book series in the field; it combines the high peer-review and editorial standards with the fair Open Access model offered by OBP. Open Access (that is, making texts free to read and reuse) helps spread research results and other educational materials to everyone everywhere, not just to those who can afford it or have access to well-endowed university libraries. Copyrights stay where they belong, with the authors. Authors are encouraged to secure funding to offset the publication costs and thereby sustain the publishing model, but if no institutional funding is available, authors are not charged for publication. Any grant secured covers the actual costs of publishing and is not taken as profit. In short: we support publishing that respects the authors and serves the public interest.
Editorial Board
- Geoffrey Khan (General Editor)
- Aaron Hornkohl (Associate Editor)
- Esther-Miriam Wagner (Associate Editor)
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text
This volume is the result of the 2021 session of the Linguistics and the Biblical Text research group of the Institute for Biblical Research, which addresses the history, relevance, and prospects of broad theoretical linguistic frameworks in the field of biblical studies. Cognitive Linguistics, Functional Grammar, generative linguistics, historical linguistics, complexity theory, and computational analysis are each allotted a chapter, outlining the key theoretical commitments of each approach, their major concepts and/or methods, and their important contributions to contemporary study of the biblical text.
- William A. Ross
- Elizabeth Robar
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
The Linguistic Classification of the Reading Traditions of Biblical Hebrew: A Phyla-and-Waves Model
In recent decades, the field of Biblical Hebrew philology and linguistics has been witness to a growing interest in the diverse traditions of Biblical Hebrew. Indeed, while there is a tendency for many students and scholars to conceive of Biblical Hebrew as equivalent with the Tiberian pointing of the Leningrad Codex as it appears in Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), there are many other important reading traditions attested throughout history.
- Benjamin Paul Kantor
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
An Introduction to Andalusi Hebrew Metrics
Delgado presents his view of Andalusi Hebrew metrics, as encountered in medieval manuals of Arabic and Hebrew metrics and scattered notes in the works of Andalusi Hebrew philologists. Whilst twentieth-century scholars spoke about the adaptation of Arabic metrics to Hebrew, he instead approaches these compositions by Andalusi Jews (10th-13th c.) as Arabic metrics written in Hebrew, thus emphasising how Hebrew poetry of the Andalusi Jews can help us to understand the general evolution of Arabic strophic poetry, and its experimental evolution, which is quite unlike classical and strophic Arabic poetry.
- José Martínez Delgado
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
- Literature
The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew
This volume explores an underappreciated feature of the standard Tiberian Masoretic tradition of Biblical Hebrew, namely its composite nature. Focusing on cases of dissonance between the tradition’s written (consonantal) and reading (vocalic) components, the study shows that the Tiberian spelling and pronunciation traditions, though related, interdependent, and largely in harmony, at numerous points reflect distinct oral realisations of the biblical text.
- Aaron D. Hornkohl
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
The Bible in the Bowls: A Catalogue of Biblical Quotations in Published Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Magic Bowls
The Bible in the Bowls represents a complete catalogue of Hebrew Bible quotations found in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct epigraphic witnesses to the Hebrew Bible from late antique Babylonia, the bowls are uniquely placed to contribute to research on the (oral) transmission of the biblical text in late antiquity; the pre-Masoretic Babylonian vocalisation tradition; the formation of the liturgy and the early development of the Jewish prayer book; the social locations of biblical knowledge in late antique Babylonia and socio-religious typologies of the bowls; and the dynamics of scriptural citation in ancient Jewish magic.
- Daniel James Waller
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
Studies in the Masoretic Tradition of the Hebrew Bible
This volume brings together papers on topics relating to the transmission of the Hebrew Bible from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period. We refer to this broadly in the title of the volume as the ‘Masoretic Tradition’. The papers are innovative studies of a range of aspects of this Masoretic tradition at various periods, many of them presenting hitherto unstudied primary sources.
- Daniel J. Crowther
- Aaron D. Hornkohl
- Geoffrey Khan
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
- Literature
Diachronic Variation in the Omani Arabic Vernacular of the Al-ʿAwābī District: From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the Present Day
In this monograph, Roberta Morano re-examines one of the foundational works of the Omani Arabic dialectology field, Carl Reinhardt’s Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ‘Oman und Zanzibar (1894). This German-authored work was prolific in shaping our knowledge of Omani Arabic during the twentieth century, until the 1980s when more recent linguistic studies on the Arabic varieties spoken in Oman began to appear.
- Roberta Morano
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Literature
Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini: A Critical Edition with English Translation
This groundbreaking new work is the first full critical edition and English translation of the Hebrew book *Sefer ha-Pardes* [The Book of the Orchard], written at the end of the thirteenth century by the Provençal Jewish author Jedaiah ha-Penini.
- David Torollo
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Folklore and Ethnology
- Linguistics
- Literature
Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 1
This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews.
- Geoffrey Khan
- Masoud Mohammadirad
- Dorota Molin
- Paul M. Noorlander
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Folklore and Ethnology
- Linguistics
- Literature
Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 2
This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews.
- Geoffrey Khan
- Masoud Mohammadirad
- Dorota Molin
- Paul M. Noorlander
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Folklore and Ethnology
- Linguistics
The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho
Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community’s oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale.
- Oz Aloni
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew
This book investigates the theories behind Semitic vocalisation and vowel phonology in the early medieval Middle East, tracing their evolution to identify points of intellectual contact between Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew linguists before the twelfth century.
- Nick Posegay
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic
This volume is the first linguistic work to focus exclusively on varieties of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Arabic in the Ottoman Empire of the 15th to the 20th centuries, and present Ottoman Arabic material in a didactic and easily accessible way.
- Esther-Miriam Wagner
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- History
Diversity and Rabbinization: Jewish Texts and Societies between 400 and 1000 CE
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period.
- Gavin McDowell
- Ron Naiweld
- Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers in the fields of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew that advance the field by the philological investigation of primary sources and the application of cutting-edge linguistic theory. These include contributions by established scholars and by students and early career researchers.
- Aaron D. Hornkohl
- Geoffrey Khan
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Literature
The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands: A Representative of ‘Aǧā’ib Literature in Syriac
This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands.
- Sergey Minov
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic
The papers in this volume represent the full range of research that is currently being carried out on Neo-Aramaic dialects. They advance the field in numerous ways. In order to allow linguists who are not specialists in Neo-Aramaic to benefit from the papers, the examples are fully glossed.
- Geoffrey Khan
- Paul M. Noorlander
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Material Culture
Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg
This timely volume presents, for the first time, edited fragments of six texts by adherents of the Muʿtazila, a school of rational theology that emerged in the eighth century CE, including Karaite copies and recensions of works by Muslim authors, notably ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadhānī and ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿīd al-Labbād, as well as original Jewish Muʿtazilī treatises. The collection is concluded by an anonymous Rabbanite refutation of the highly influential polemical tract against Judaism, entitled Ifḥām al-yāhūd.
- Adang Camilla
- Bruno Chiesa
- Omar Hamdan
- Wilferd Madelung
- Sabine Schmidtke
- Jan Thiele
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions
This volume brings together papers relating to the pronunciation of Semitic languages and the representation of their pronunciation in written form. The papers focus on sources representative of a period that stretches from late antiquity until the Middle Ages. A large proportion of them concern reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew, especially the vocalisation notation systems used to represent them. Also discussed are orthography and the written representation of prosody.
- Aaron D. Hornkohl
- Geoffrey Khan
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew
This volume presents a collection of articles centring on the language of the Mishnah and the Talmud – the most important Jewish texts (after the Bible), which were compiled in Palestine and Babylonia in the latter centuries of Late Antiquity. Despite the fact that Rabbinic Hebrew has been the subject of growing academic interest across the past century, very little scholarship has been written on it in English.
- Shai Heijmans
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1
This book presents the current state of knowledge of the Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew and a full edition of one of the key medieval sources, Hidāyat al-Qāriʾ ‘The Guide for the Reader’, by ʾAbū al-Faraj Hārūn. There is also an accompanying oral performance of samples of the reconstructed pronunciation by Alex Foreman.
- Geoffrey Khan
- Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
- Linguistics
The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 2
This book presents the current state of knowledge of the Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew and a full edition of one of the key medieval sources, Hidāyat al-Qāriʾ ‘The Guide for the Reader’, by ʾAbū al-Faraj Hārūn. There is also an accompanying oral performance of samples of the reconstructed pronunciation by Alex Foreman.
- Geoffrey Khan
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