Geoffrey Khan

4 paper cards in Mova's library · 2020–2021

Geoffrey Khan wrote 4 of the papers Mova reads, in 2020–2021, most of them on Discourse analysis; often with Aaron D. Hornkohl, Paul M. Noorlander.

Papers

New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew (2021)
A volume of 24 articles on the writing, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew; the book prints an abstract of each, and this card is written from those abstracts and the contents.
Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic (2021)
A volume of seventeen papers on modern Aramaic (North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic, Ṭuroyo, Western Neo-Aramaic of Maʿlula, Neo-Mandaic); the card is written from the abstracts the book prints and the opening of the first paper.
Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions (2020)
A volume of sixteen papers, mostly from Cambridge workshops of 2016–2018, on how Semitic reading traditions were pronounced and written, from late antiquity to the Middle Ages; this card is written from the editors' preface, which summarises every paper, and the contents.
The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew (2020)
A book in two volumes. The vowel and accent signs of the Masoretic Text were made in Tiberias in the early Islamic period, but the oral reading they were written for was lost within a few centuries; the European grammars inherited Sephardi pronunciation instead. Khan reconstructs the Tiberian reading itself from…