Author: D. T. Stoddard
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: David Tappan Stoddard
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: David Tappan Stoddard
Publisher:
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Category : Syriac language, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004313931
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1921

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This work is a detailed documentation of the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by Assyrian Christians in the region of Urmi (northwestern-Iran). It consists of four volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 are descriptions of the grammar of the dialect, including the phonology, morphology and syntax. Volume 3 contains a study of the lexicon, consisting of a series of lists of words in various lexical fields and a full dictionary with etymologies. Volume 4 contains transcriptions and translations of oral texts, including folktales and descriptions of culture and history. The Urmi dialect is the most important dialect among the Assyrian Christian communities, since it forms the basis of a widely-used literary form of Neo-Aramaic.

Author: Gotthelf Bergsträsser
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9780931464102
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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The book presents an introduction to Akkadian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Amharic, Tigrē, Mehri, and Arabic with analysis and parallel texts.

Author: Hezy Mutzafi
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447049153
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Revised thesis (doctoral), - Tel Aviv University, 2000.

Author: John Fletcher Hurst
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 796

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Author: Benjamin Hary
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501504630
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, structural features, and Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords. The book covers commonly researched language varieties, like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as less commonly researched ones, like Judeo-Tat, Jewish Swedish, and Hebraized Amharic in Israel today.

Author: Adam H. Becker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022614531X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 451

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This volume examines how the presence of an American evangelical mission in the borderlands between Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century contributed to the development of a secular nationalism among the indigenous Neo-Aramaic speaking Christian population of the region. A particular evangelical configuration of modernity was cultivated at the mission in the antebellum period, one belonging to a visceral realm often unrecognised in characterisations of secularism and the Enlightenment.

Author: Joanna Bocheńska
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319930885
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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Rediscovering Kurdistan’s Cultures and Identities: The Call of the Cricket offers insight into little-known aspects of the social and cultural activity and changes taking place in different parts of Kurdistan (Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran), linking different theoretical approaches within a postcolonial perspective. The first chapter presents the book’s approach to postcolonial theory and gives a brief introduction to the historical context of Kurdistan. The second, third and fourth chapters focus on the Kurdish context, examining ethical changes as revealed in Kurdish literary and cinema narratives, the socio-political role of the Kurdish cultural institutions and the practices of countering othering of Kurdish migrants living in Istanbul. The fifth chapter offers an analysis of the nineteenth-century missionary translations of the Bible into the Kurdish language. The sixth chapter examines the formation of Chaldo-Assyrian identity in the context of relations with the Kurds after the overthrow of the Ba’ath regime in 2003. The last chapter investigates the question of the Yezidis’ identity, based on Yezidi oral works and statements about their self-identification.