Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew

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Introduction				1
Shai Heijmans

1.	Rabba and Rava, ʾAbba and ʾAva: Spelling, Pronunciation and Meaning			5
	Yochanan Breuer
	1.	Introduction		5
	2.	The dagesh		8
	3.	Eastern Aramaic		9
	4.	Western Aramaic		12
	5.	Mishnaic Hebrew		13
	6.	Babylonian Aramaic		15
	7.	Mishnaic Hebrew — a bridge between Western and Eastern Aramaic		18
	Appendix: Did the distinction of spelling survive in the manuscripts?			19

2.	The Vocalisation of MS Cambridge of the Mishnah: An Encounter Between Traditions			25
	Yehudit Henshke
	Nusaḥ: textual variants			29
	Phonology			31
	Morphology			38
	Orthography: Homographs			46
	Ketiv and qere			50
	Foreign Words			54
	Conclusion			56

3.	Adjacency Pairs and Argumentative Steps in the Halakhic Give-and-Take Conversations in the Mishnah			57
	Rivka Shemesh-Raiskin
	1.	The discourse unit of the halakhic give-and-take conversation and its features		57
	2.	A description of two aspects drawn from conversation analysis		66
		2.1	Adjacency pairs in the halakhic give-and-take conversations in the Mishnah	68
		2.2	Argumentative steps in the halakhic give-and-take conversations in the Mishnah	74

4.	Tannaitic Aramaic: Methodological Remarks and a Test Case			97
	Christian Stadel

5.	Rabbinic Entries in R. Judah Ibn-Tibbon’s Translation of Duties of the Hearts			119
	Barak Avirbach
	1.	Introduction		119
	2.	The nominal lexicon in Ibn-Tibbon’s translation of Duties of the Hearts		122
	3.	Rabbinic entries in Ibn-Tibbon’s translation of Duties of the Hearts		124
		3.1	Biblical lexemes with rabbinic meanings	125
		3.2	Rabbinic lexemes with rabbinic meanings	128
		3.3	Rabbinic lexemes with both rabbinic and new meanings	133
		3.4	Rabbinic lexemes with new meanings	137
		3.5	Root and stem combination: Rabbinic roots	140
		3.6	Linear word-formation: Rabbinic stems	146
	4.	Conclusion		151

6.	The Distinction between Branches of Rabbinic Hebrew in Light of the Hebrew of the Late Midrash			155
	Yehonatan Wormser

7.	Two Textual Versions of Psiqata of the Ten Commandments			169
	Shlomi Efrati
	Appendix: Text and translation of PsTC 2 (= PsR 22, 111b)			188

8.	Vowel Reduction in Greek Loanwords in the Mishnah: The Phenomenon and Its Significance			193
	Shai Heijmans
	1.	Introduction		193
	2.	Vowel reduction		195
		2.1	Reduction in open pretonic syllables	196
		2.2	Exceptions: vowel reduction in non-pretonic syllables	198
	3.	Discussion and conclusions		199

Contributors				203
Colophon				207
Index				209

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