ᵓuṣṣit Il-Gumguma or 'The Story of the Skull' - With Parallel Versions, Translation and Linguistic Analysis of Three 19th-Century Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts from Egypt. Supplemented with Arabic Transliteration

In ᵓUṣṣit il-Gumguma Olav G. Ørum offers parallel versions, a translation and a linguistic analysis of three 19th-century Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts from Egypt. The Hebrew-script material is comprehensively supplemented with Arabic transliteration.

About the author

Olav G. Ørum, M.A. (2014), University of Oslo, is a Ph.D.-fellow at that university. This is his first major publication. He is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic prophetic legends, to be finished in 2018.

Product details

• Authors: Olav Ørum
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2017
• EAN: 9789004345621
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34562-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 491 g
• Series: Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéva
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism