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