The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation
‫חקרי עבר וערב מוגשים ליהושע בלאו על ידי חבריו ותלמידיו במלאת לו שבעים‬
‫שמאי‬-‫ חגי בן‬:‫עורך‬
Hebrew and Arabic Studies In honour of Joshua Blau
)In Hebrew(
1993
Price: US$ 40
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Contents
O. Tirosh-Becker (compiler): A bibliography of the Writings of Prof. Blau
I. Avishur: Elements of the Arabic Dialect of Iraq in Saadiya’s JudaeoArabic
U. Ornan: “A statute for Ever”
I. Eldar: On Two Grammatical Terms: “Khāssiyyat al-harf” (Phonetic
Property of a Letter) and “Iftiqār” (Combinatorial Requirement)
E. Almagor: The Damascus Redaction of the Homilies on the Pentateuch
Attributed to David b. Abraham Maimuni
I. Ben-David: The Accents `ole-wěyored and ittěnahěta in the Books of Job,
Proverbs and Psalms
Z. Ben-Hayyim: The Gleanings of Ephraim
H. Ben-Shammai: Judaeo-Arabic Abraham Story of Muslim Origin – New
Fragments
M. Bar-Asher: The Hebrew Component in the Judaeo-Arabic Dialect of
Algeria (the Communities of Tlemcen and Ain Temouchent)
M. Gil: The Story of Bahīrā and Its Jewish Versions
D. Doron: A Panegyric to Yehuda ha-Kohen Abu `l-Barakāt al-Kātib
A. Dotan: The Infinitive of the Pu`al Conjugation
S. Hopkins: Grammatical Corrections and Elevation of Style in
Maimonides’s Commentary on the Mishna
M. Weizmann: The Qaddish Prayer and the Peshitta of Chronicles
Y. Tobi: A Second Manuscript of Kitāb Islāh al-Akhlāq by Solomon Ibn
Gabirol
A. Tal: Lexicographical Studies
Y. Yahalom: Verbal Suffixes in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
I. Yeivin: Marking of Shewa-Ga’ya in Biblical Manuscripts
S. Moreh: Hebrew Words and Baghdadi Judaeo-Arabic Dialect in the
Poetry of the Iraqi Poet Mulla `Abbud al-Karkhi (1861-1946)
A. Mirsky: Biblical Language and Targumic Idioms in Medieval Hebrew
Poetry
M. Mishor: Second Radical of Infinitive ‫ לפעל‬without Dageš Lene
M. Sokolow: Exegesis on Ha’azīnū in the Geonic Period
S. Stroumsa: On the Maimonidean Controversy in the East: the Role of Abu
`l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
M. Piamenta: Contrastive Syntax of the Eastern-Arabic Translations of
Psalms XIX
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation
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M. A. Friedman: New Fragments from the Geniza of Maimonides’
Responsa (With Addenda to the Published Responsa)
G. B. Sarfatti: Mishnat ha-Middot
M. Z. Kaddari: Lefi Sha’a – a Diachronic Study
E. Rubinstein (‫)ז"ל‬: The Non-Expression of Modality in Biblical Hebrew
H. B. Rosén: Notes on Biblical Hebrew Verbal Morphology
Y. Ratzaby: Jewish Affairs in Non-Jewish Courts in Yemen
M. Schwarz: Another Thirteen Chapters of the Guide of the Perplexed in a
Modern Hebrew Translation
R. C. Steiner: Emphatic ‫ פ‬in the Massoretic Pronunciation of ‫( ַאפ ְַדנֹו‬Dan
11:45)
H. Shy: Personal Style in Medieval Judaeo-Arabic
S. Sharvit: The Distribution of the Feminine Participle Allomorphs in
Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew