Research Interests:

Rabbinic Hebrew in Karaite writings; North-African Judeo-Arabic; Judeo-Arabic translations of the Bible and of post-biblical literature; Medieval Hebrew; The contact between Hebrew and Arabic in the Middle Ages.

Publications

Books

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (in print). Rabbinic Excerpts in Medieval Karaite Literature, 2 volumes, Jerusalem

Papers

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (1989). "A Characterization of the Judeo-Arabic Language of Constantine." Massorot 3-4:285-312. (in Hebrew)

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (1989-90). "The Hebrew Component in Judeo-Arabic." Leshonenu La'am 40-41:331-337. (in Hebrew) [A special volume on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Va'ad ha-Lashon]

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (1990). "On the Linguistic Uniformity of the 'Sharh' of the Jews of Constantine."  Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Section D,  1:197-204.  (in Hebrew).

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (1990). "On the Arabic Glosses in the Italian Version of the 'Maqre Dardeqe'." Italia - Studi e ricerche sulla storia, la cultura e la letteratura degli ebrei d'Italia 9:37-77. (in Hebrew)

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (1991). "Studies in Rabbinic Quotations Embedded in the Pentateuch Commentaries of the Karaite Scholar Yeshu'a ben Yehuda." Massorot 5-6:313-340.  (in Hebrew)

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (1994). "A Linguistic Study in Mishnaic Quotations Embedded in Yeshu'a ben Yehuda's Commentary on Leviticus." Massorot 7:145-186. (in Hebrew) [An abstract of this paper appears in: Issues in the Study of Rabbinic Hebrew, abstracts of the papers presented at a workshop on Rabbinic Hebrew, The Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 1991, pp. 126-127]

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (1997). "Elements and Quotations of Rabbinic Hebrew Embedded in Karaite Literature." Studies in Language 2 (Hebrew Through the Ages, in memory of Shoshanna Bahat):155-172. (in Hebrew)

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (1998). "Linguistic Study of a Rabbinic Quotation  Embedded in a Karaite Commentary on Exodus." Scripta Hierosolymitana 37:380-407. (in English)

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (2003). "The Use of Rabbinic Sources in Karaite Writings." Karaite Judaism: A Guide to its History and Literary Sources, ed. M. Polliack, pp. 319-338, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, HOS Series Vol. 73. (in English)

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (2005). "Karaite Judeo-Arabic Translations of Excerpts from the Mishnah: On the Meaning of Ba'alil." Jewish Quarterly Review 95:530-556. (in English)

·         Tirosh-Becker, O.  (2006). "An Algerian Judeo-Arabic Translation of Piyyut 'Mi Khamokha' by Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Levi." Massorot 13-14:315-369.  (in Hebrew)

·         Tirosh-Becker, O. (2007). "Judeo-Arabic Translations of the Karaite Scholars Yeshu'ah ben Yehudah, Yusuf al-Basir and Ya'qub al-Qirqisani to Excerpts from the Mishnah". Sha'arei Lashon: Studies in Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Languages presented to Moshe Bar-Asher, eds. A. Maman, S.E. Fassberg, and Y. Breuer, Vol.3, Bialik Institute,  Jerusalem, pp. 435-466. (in Hebrew)