A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Indigenous Traditions of Hebrew Linguistics -- a. Theories and Practices of Linguistic Analysis -- The Medieval Karaite Tradition of Hebrew Grammar -- Morphology versus Meaning: Biblical Mixed Roots and Andalusi Hebrew Lexicographical Theories -- Whether to Capture Form or Meaning: A Typology of Early Judaeo-Arabic Pentateuch Translations -- The Impact of Teytsh on Diqduq, or: Why the Metaphor Became a Noun in Early Modern Ashkenazi Linguistics -- b. Development of Hebrew Terminology -- Towards a 'Mapping' of Hebrew Grammatical Terminology of the Middle Ages: A History of Transmission -- The Birth of the Medieval Hebrew Mathematical Language as Μanifest in Ibn al-Aḥdab's Epistle of the Number -- Part 2 The Legacy of Medieval Hebrew Linguistics -- a. Jewish Modes of Preservation and Transmission -- Fragments of Linguistics Works from the Italian Geniza -- Another Glance at a Gifted Grammarian: More on Shabbethai Sofer of Przemysl -- b. Crossing Faiths, Crossing Disciplines -- "With That, You Can Grasp All the Hebrew Language": Hebrew Sources of an Anonymous Hebrew-Latin Grammar from Thirteenth-Century England -- The Quest for the Holiest Alphabet in the Renaissance -- Index of Names -- Index of Places -- Index of Works -- Index of Terminology.

A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths is a collection of articles on pre-modern Jewish and Christian approaches to Hebrew linguistics and the transmission of grammatical knowledge between cultures, religions and disciplines.

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