Me’or ‘ayin (The Eyes' Torch): the Karaite Grammar of Hebrew. Based on the Manuscript dated from 1208. Facsimile edition [Ме’ор ‘айин («Светоч глаза»): Караимская грамматика древнееврейского языка. По рукописи 1208 г. Факсимиле]. Edition of the text, translation from Hebrew, with Research Paper and Notes by M.N.Zishlin. Moscow, Nauka GRVL Publishers 1990. 216 p., ill. (Pamyatniki pismennosti Vostoka. XCVI).
The book Me’or ‘ayin is a brief Karaite grammar of Hebrew. It was composed at the end of the 11th century and differs from all earlier Karaite grammar writings because it was written in Hebrew and not in Arabic. The book was meant for use by the scholars of the Old Testament in Christian countries. Alongside with already well-known grammatical notions, original conceptions of Karaite philologists are presented in this book which differ substantially from the views of Spanish Rabbanite grammarians…
The 3rd International Academic Conference “The Written Heritage of the Orient” dedicated to the 140th anniversary of B.Ya. Vladimirtsov (1884–1931) will take place at the IOM RAS on April 22–24. The conference program is now available.
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