The Intertwined World of the Oral and Written Transmission of Sacred Traditions in the Middle East / edited by Alba Fedeli, Geoffrey Khan and Johan Lundberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Passing Down a Corpus of Reminders For the Peshiṭta and the Harklean Bibles -- Taxonomies of Dots: The Context and Methodology of the Early Treatises about the Syriac Accent Dots -- Multimodality in Liturgical Expression: The Case of Textuality and Orality in Syriac Orthodox Liturgies -- Was There Ever an Oral Hebrew Masorah? -- Main Clause Verbs Are Prosodically Weaker than Nouns in the Tiberian Cantillation of Biblical Hebrew Prose Books -- The Convergence of the Transmission of Jewish and Muslim Sacred Scriptures Reflected by the Medieval Karaite Transcriptions of the Hebrew Bible -- A Jewish Translation of Genesis in 10th-Century Egyptian Arabic -- Patterns of Selective Vowel-dotting in Early Qurʾānic Manuscripts -- New Approaches to Analysing the Vocalisation of Early Qurʾānic Manuscripts -- A Computational System to Analyse the Layer of Tajwīd Notation in Contemporary Qurʾānic Orthography -- Index.

In the medieval Middle East, the scriptures of Christianity, Judaism and Islam were transmitted in written and oral form. The means of written transmission and the textualisation of the oral reading of these scriptures exhibit many parallels, which reflect cultural contact and convergence across the various religious communities. This volume is the outcome of a project, funded jointly by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, that aimed to bring together strands of research related to various aspects of the transmission of these sacred texts in order to reach a deeper understanding of the intertwined world of the three major religions of the Middle East at their formative periods of development during the early Islamic centuries.

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