Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Rabba and Rava, �Abba and �Ava: Spelling, Pronunciation and Meaning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The dagesh -- 3. Eastern Aramaic -- 4. Western Aramaic -- 5. Mishnaic Hebrew -- 6. Babylonian Aramaic -- 7. Mishnaic Hebrew - a bridge between Western and Eastern Aramaic -- Appendix: did the distinction of spelling survive in the manuscripts? -- 2. The Vocalisation of MS Cambridge of the Mishnah: An Encounter Between Traditions -- Nusaḥ: textual variants -- Phonology -- Morphology -- Orthography: Homographs -- Ketiv and qere -- Foreign Words -- Conclusion -- 3. Adjacency Pairs and Argumentative Steps in the Halakhic Give-and-Take Conversations in the Mishnah -- 1. The discourse unit of the halakhic give-and-take conversation and its features -- 2. A description of two aspects drawn from conversation analysis -- 2.1 Adjacency pairs in the halakhic give-and-take conversations in the Mishnah -- 2.2 Argumentative steps in the halakhic give-and-take conversations in the Mishnah -- 2.2.1 Muntigl and Turnbull's Model -- 2.2.2 Examining argumentative steps in halakhic give-and-take conversations in the Mishnah -- (a) Irrelevancy claim -- (b) Challenge -- (c) Contradiction -- (d) Counterclaim -- 2.2.3 Comparing the findings from this examination of argumentative steps to the findings of previous studies -- 4. Tannaitic Aramaic: Methodological Remarks and a Test Case -- 5. Rabbinic Entries in R. Judah Ibn-Tibbon's Translation of Duties of the Hearts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The nominal lexicon in Ibn-Tibbon's translation of Duties of the Hearts -- 3. Rabbinic entries in Ibn-Tibbon's translation of Duties of the Hearts -- 3.1 Biblical lexemes with rabbinic meanings -- 3.2 Rabbinic lexemes with rabbinic meanings -- 3.3 Rabbinic lexemes with both rabbinic and new meanings -- 3.4 Rabbinic lexemes with new meanings.

3.5 Root and stem combination: Rabbinic roots -- 3.6 Linear word-formation: Rabbinic stems -- 4. Conclusion -- 6. The Distinction between Branches of Rabbinic Hebrew in Light of the Hebrew of the Late Midrash -- 7. Two Textual Versions of Psiqata of the Ten Commandments -- Appendix: Text and translation of PsTC 2 (= PsR 22, 111b) -- 8. Vowel Reduction in Greek Loanwords in the Mishnah: The Phenomenon and Its Significance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Vowel reduction -- 2.1 Reduction in open pretonic syllables -- (1) Reduction of the vowel /a/ -- (2) Reduction of the vowel /e/ -- (3) Reduction of the vowel /i/ -- (4) Reduction of the vowel /o/ -- 2.2 Exceptions: vowel reduction in non-pretonic syllables -- 3. Discussion and conclusions -- Contributors -- About the Publishing Team -- Index.

This volume presents a collection of articles centring on the language of the Mishnah and the Talmud - the most important Jewish texts (after the Bible), which were compiled in Palestine and Babylonia in the latter centuries of Late Antiquity.

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