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The Hebrew in the Babylonian Talmud according to the Manuscripts of Tractate Pesahim
, Jerusalem 2002

[Review: Mordechai Mishor, Leshonenu 67 (2005), pp. 93-99.]

Articles


“Perfect and Participle in Description of Ritual in the Mishnah”, Tarbiz LVI (1987), pp. 299-326


On the Hebrew Dialect of the Amoraim in the Babylonian Talmud”, Language Studies II-III, Jerusalem 1987, pp. 127-53


“The Prohibition on Impurity in the Pentateuch”, Megadim 2 (1987), pp. 45-53


“Change of Gender under the Influence of Babylonian Aramaic”, Leshonenu La‘am 42 (1991), pp. 43-52


“What is a ‘Babylonian’ Form?”, Sugyot Bilshon Hachamim (summaries of the lectures held in the workshop on the topic: Mishnaic Hebrew - Grammar and Vocabulary; ed. M. Bar-Asher), Jerusalem 1991, pp. 26-30


Dissonance between Masoretic Accentuation and Vocalization in Verse Division of the Biblical Text”,Rabbi Mordechai Breuer Festschrift, Jerusalem 1992, pp. 191-242


“Patteruha - Pitruha: Babylonian Hebrew and its Influence on the Interpretation of the Mishnah During the Tannaitic Period”, Leshonenu LVI (1991), pp. 11-21


“‘Palestinian’ Forms in the Babylonian Talmud”, Language Studies V-VI, Jerusalem 1992, pp. 171-80


“On the Transmission of Mishnaic Hebrew in the Babylonian Talmud”, Mehqerei Talmud, II, Talmudic Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Eliezer Shimshon Rosenthal (ed. M. Bar-Asher & D. Rosenthal), Jerusalem 1993, pp. 91-126


“The Function of the Particle qa in Babylonian Aramaic”, Iyunim Bilshon Hachamim (summaries of the lectures held in the workshop on the topic: Mishnaic Hebrew - Grammar and Vocabulary; ed. M. Bar-Asher), Jerusalem 1996, pp. 28-33 (a short version of .number 14)


“Negation of the Participle in the Hebrew of the Babylonian Talmud”, Massorot 9-10-11 (Gideon Goldenberg Festschrift), Jerusalem 1997, pp. 21-41


Rabbi is Greater than Rav, Rabban is Greater than Rabbi, the Simple Name is Greater than Rabban”,Tarbiz 66 (1997), pp. 41-59


The Function of the Particle Qa in the Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud”, Leshonenu LX (1997), pp. 73-94


“The Origin of the Title Rav”, in: M. Bar-Asher (ed.), Studies in Language II, Hebrew Through the Ages (Shoshana Bahat Festschrift), Jerusalem 1997, pp. 119-127 (a short version of number 13)


“The Hebrew of the Amoraim of the Babylonian Talmud”, in: M. Bar-Asher (ed.), Scripta Hierosolymitana XXXVII: Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew, Jerusalem 1998, pp. 131
151 (a translation of number 3)


“Word Play in Rabbinic Literature”, Leshonenu la‘am 49 (1998), pp. 155-167


The Hebrew Component in the Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud”, Leshonenu LXII (1999), pp. 23–80


Intervocalic Alef / Yodh Interchanges in Mishnaic Hebrew”, Revue des Études Juives 159 (2000), pp. 63–78


“The Noun in the Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud according to the Yemenite Tradition”, Leshonenu LXV (2003), pp. 121-141


The Origin and Meaning of the Idiom memalle maqom”, Leshonenu 65 (2003), pp.249-260


The Origin of the Idiom hen… hen in the Meaning ‘this… and also’”, Leshonenu la‘am 54 (2004), pp. 23-34


“‘ki has four meanings’”, Tarbiz 72 (2003), pp. 505-522


Three Midrashim and Their Exegetic Method”, Hebrew Studies 45 (2004), pp. 175-192


“The Midrash of the Tanna’im and the Plain Meaning of a Phrase”, Studies in Talmudic and Midrashic Literature: In Memory of Tirtzah Lifshitz, eds. M. Bar-Asher, J. Levinson and B. Lifshitz, Jerusalem 2005, pp. 71-78


“The Aramic of the Talmudic Period”, Shmuel Safrai, Zeev Safrai, Joshua Schwartz, Peter J. Tomson (eds.), The Literature of the Sages, II, Amsterdam 2006, pp. 597-625


“Lexical Innovations in the Amoraic Hebrew”, Leshonenu 69 (2007), pp. 51-86


Innovations in the Hebrew of the Amoraic Period”, Materia Giudaica XII/1-2 (2007), La Giuntina editrice, Firenze, pp. 83-88


Early and Late in Mishnaic Hebrew: Temporal Expressions Change into Causal Expressions”, Sha'arei Lashon: Studies in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Jewish Languages Presented to Moshe Bar-Asher, eds. A. Maman, S.E. Fassberg, and Y. Breuer, Jerusalem 2007, pp. 62–81


The Babylonian Aramaic in Tractate Karetot: According to MS Oxford”, Aramaic Studies 5.1 (2007), pp. 1–45


 
“Lexical Changes During the Mishnaic Period” , Leshonenu 69 (2007), pp. 227–241


“The Shift of Intransitive Verbs into Passive Conjugations in Mishnaic Hebrew”, Leshonenu 70 (2008), pp. 145–165


“The Influence of the Babylonian Talmud on the Formation of Modern Hebrew”, Aqaddem 38 (February 2009), pp. 6–7


Stylistic Variations in S.Y. Agnon's Temol Shilshom”, Modern Hebrew: Two Hundred and Fifty Years (ed. Chaim E. Cohen), The Academy of the Hebrew Language, Jerusalem 2009, pp. 105–139


The Hidden Biblical Component in the Language of S. Y. Agnon”, Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 23 (2009), pp. 215-254


Hebrew Speech from the Ancient Era until Today”, Et-Mol 214 (2010), pp. 1-4


The System of Dividing Lists into Verses”, Vetus Testamentum 61 (2011), pp. 184-226


A Reconsideration of the Saying ‘In Five Verses there is no
הכרע, Israel: Linguistic Studies in the Memory of Israel Yeivin, Jerusalem 2011, pp. 53-63


“Shne ’ishim, shne ‘olamot”, Le‘ovdecha Be’emet, Jerusalem 2011, pp. 261–265 (Hebrew)

“The Preposition hemennu and the Babylonian Branch of Mishnaic Hebrew”, Leshonenu (Hebrew; in print)

Entries in Encylopedias


“Mishnaic Hebrew”, Encylopaedia Judaica, Eds. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. Vol. 8. 2nd ed., Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007, pp. 649-650 (addition to the original entry)


Aramäisch", Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, I, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2011, pp. 134-138


“Rabbinic Hebrew: Number”, Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Boston: Brill (in print)


“Rabbinic Hebrew: Phonology”, Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Boston: Brill (in print)


“Rabbinic Hebrew: Morphology”, Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Boston: Brill (in print)

Book reviews


M. Bar-Asher (ed.), Studies in Hebrew and Jewish Languages Presented to Shelomo Morag, Jerusalem1996, in Pe‘amim 80 (1999), pp. 143-152


“A Yemenite Manuscript of Tractate Sanhedrin (Babylonian Talmud) and its Place in the Tradition of the Text”, Pe‘amim 88 (2001), pp. 157-167

Editor


Shelomo Morag, Studies in Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Languages (eds. M. Bar-Asher, Y. Breuer and A. Maman), Jerusalem 2003


Shelomo Morag, Studies in Hebrew (eds. M. Bar-Asher, Y. Breuer and A. Maman), Jerusalem 2003


Sha‘arei Lashon: Studies in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Jewish Languages Presented to Moshe Bar-Asher
, eds. A. Maman, S.E. Fassberg, and Y. Breuer, Jerusalem 2007