Author : Jacob Mann
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527740495
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)
Book Synopsis The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine Under the Fatimid Caliphs, Vol. 2 by : Jacob Mann
Download or read book The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine Under the Fatimid Caliphs, Vol. 2 written by Jacob Mann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine Under the Fatimid Caliphs, Vol. 2: A Contribution to Their Political and Communal History Based Chiefly on Genizah Material Hitherto Unpublished In the letters and other documents, reproduced in the following pages, we possess a good sample of Hebrew as she was written (and perhaps spoken) in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. We see how the Paitanic phraseology pervaded the style of ordinary private letters. However arbitrary a treatment was meted out to grammar and philology, it cannot be denied that the Piyyut as a literary form widened the limits of the language, making it flexible and capable of expressing new thoughts and various shades of meaning. Oh the other hand, we detect a considerable influence of Arabic, the native tongue of the Jews in the Orient, on the syntax of literary Hebrew. At all events, the Semitic character of the language remained unimpaired. The manuscripts edited here will supply material of no negligible a quantity for a fascinating study on Hebrew in speech and in writing throughout the centuries both in Palestine and in the countries of the Diaspora. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.