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ONLINE

1st ed.

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2022

1 online resource (370 pages)

ISBN 9781800643048 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781800643031

Semitic Languages and Cultures Ser. ; v.11

Print version: Aloni, Oz The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers,c2022 ISBN 9781800643031

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Proverbs -- Chapter 2: Enriched Biblical Narratives -- Chapter 3: A Folktale -- Closing Remarks -- References -- Index.

Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community’s oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale. Each chapter draws on the author’s own fieldwork among members of the Zakho community now living in Jerusalem. He examines the proverb in its performative context, the rewritten biblical narrative of Ruth, Naomi and King David, and a folktale with the unusual theme of magical gender transformation. Insightfully breaking down these examples with analysis drawn from a variety of conceptual fields, Aloni succeeds in his mission to put the speakers of the language and their culture on equal footing with their speech..

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