TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orum,Olav G.
TI  - 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 
T2  - Etudes sur le judaisme medieval
SN  - 9789004345638
AV  - PJ5079.5.E49 
U1  - 492.7/7 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Judeo-Arabic language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Texts
KW  - Judeo-Arabic literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Languages
KW  - Arabic language
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter; Olav G. Ørum --; Introduction; Olav G. Ørum --; The Jews of 19th-Century Cairo and Their Storytelling Tradition; Olav G. Ørum --; Three Parallel Judaeo-Arabic Versions and an English Translation of ʾUṣṣit il-Gumguma 'The Story of the Skull'; Olav G. Ørum --; Linguistic Analysis; Olav G. Ørum --; Summary and Concluding Remarks; Olav G. Ørum --; Arabic Transliteration of the Parallel Versions; Olav G. Ørum --; Facsimile of 'Ramle-Rabbi Yosef Algamil 25' (GAM); Olav G. Ørum --; References; Olav G. Ørum --; Index; Olav G. Ørum; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004345638
ER  -