Studies in the Language of Targum Canticles

273 Pages·2022·1.705 MB·

by  Paul R Moore

StudiesintheLanguageofTargumCanticles
Supplements to
Aramaic Studies
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Contents
Acknowledgements xi
ListofFiguresandTables xii
Abbreviations xiii
Symbols,Terminology,andConventions xix
1 Introduction 1
2 Dialect 4
3 Recensions 11
1 CriticalEditions 15
4 DateofComposition 18
1 ArabicInfluence 19
1.1 Summary 29
1.2 IstheGemstoneListAdscititious? 30
1.3 TheGemstoneListintheYemeniteWitnesses 38
1.4 Conclusions 40
2 TheIshmaelites 41
3 Olibanum? 45
3.1 Summary 50
5 NominalState 51
6 VerbalStems 53
1 PhonologicalDevelopment? 54
2 RecalibrationofSemanticRanges 55
3 Non-normativeInfinitives 58
3.1 ןסחמל 58
3.2 טרחמל 59
3.3 יעטמל 61
3.4 יפטמל 62
3.5 דגנמל 63
3.6 רטפמל 66
3.7 ברקמל 68
4 Summary 69
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7 Gender 71
1 FeminineNounswithMasculineAgreement 72
2 Androgyny:שפנ 75
3 MasculineNounswithFeminineAgreement 76
4 GenderShift:אנמזאיההב 76
5 GenderShift:איההאנדיעב 78
8 SemanticAnomalies 82
1 ילוליא 82
2 םיאמ 87
3 ןא 88
4 ןופ 90
4.1 ןופinjlatg. 92
4.2 ןופinljla 93
4.3 Conclusions 97
5 √קקחG 98
6 Summary 100
9 ArgumentMarking 101
1 SyntheticPronominalObjectConstructions 101
2 RepurposingofmtArgumentMarkers 106
2.1 OtherExegeticalStrategiesInvolvingPrepositions 114
2.2 PronominalRepurposing 115
3 Alternationbetweenתיandל 117
3.1 AmbiguousCases 119
3.2 TendencyofלtoMarkNon-patientArguments 120
4 ArgumentsMarkedbyןמ 122
5 ArgumentsMarkedbyב 124
6 Mis-readingsofTgShir1.8—theVolitiveאיעביא 125
7 Mis-readingsofTgShir1.8—theInfinitiveיחימל 128
8 PossibleMisreadingofTgShir1.10 133
9 UseofבtoEncodegoalArgumentsofVerbsofMotion 133
9.1 √ברקD/G?‘toBringnear’ 134
9.2 √רדשׁD‘toSend’ 135
9.3 √ילגC‘toExile’ 136
9.4 √לביC‘toLead’ 140
9.5 Summary 141
10 MarkingofCauseeinAdjurationFormulae 142
11 MarkingofComparata 146
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10 QuotativeConstruction:VerbofSpeaking+רמאןכו 150
11 Conclusions 154
12 GenizaFragmentsCambridge,CambridgeUniversityLibrary,T-S
B11.81&T-SNS312 156
1 Introduction 156
2 AnnotatedTranscription 157
2.1 T-SB11.81,1r:TgShir2.7–11 157
2.2 T-SB11.81,1v:TgShir2.11–16 160
2.3 T-SB11.81,2r:TgShir4.12–5.2 164
2.4 T-SB11.81,2v:TgShir5.2–8 166
2.5 T-SNS312.3B:TgShir5.9–14 170
2.6 T-SNS312.3FTgShir5.14–6.2 171
13 GenizaFragmentOxford,BodleianLibrary,Heb.f.56
(folios105a–113a) 173
1 Introduction 173
2 LinguisticProfileoftheJudaeo-ArabicTranslation 174
3 AnnotatedTranscription 176
3.1 f.105a:TgShir6.9–12 176
3.2 f.105b:TgShir6.12–7.2 178
3.3 f.106a:TgShir7.2–3 179
3.4 f.106b:TgShir7.3–5 180
3.5 f.107a:TgShir7.5–6 182
3.6 f.107b:TgShir7.6–8 183
3.7 f.108a:TgShir8.1–3 185
3.8 f.108b:TgShir8.3–5 186
3.9 f.109a:TgShir8.5 188
3.10 f.109b:TgShir8.5–7 190
3.11 f.110a:TgShir8.7–9 191
3.12 f.110b:TgShir8.9 193
3.13 f.111a:TgShir8.10–11 194
3.14 f.111b:TgShir8.11–12 195
3.15 f.112a:TgShir8.12–13 196
3.16 f.112b:TgShir8.14 198
3.17 f.113a:TgShir8.14&Colophon 199
3.18 f.113b:Colophon 199
x contents
Appendix1:TheIsaianicCitationinTgShir1.1 201
Appendix2:TheSyntaxofTgShir2.6 206
Appendix3:TheTextofTgShir5.3 208
Appendix4:TheSyntaxofTgShir5.11 211
Appendix5:TheLexicaofTgShir&ZoharicLiterature 214
Bibliography 217
IndexofSubjects 228
IndexofLexemes 231
IndexofPrimarySources 239