TY - BOOK AU - Aloni AU - ,Oz TI - The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho T2 - Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Ser. SN - 9781800643048 PY - 2022/// CY - Cambridge PB - Open Book Publishers KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Proverbs -- Chapter 2: Enriched Biblical Narratives -- Chapter 3: A Folktale -- Closing Remarks -- References -- Index N2 - 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 UR - https://www.nbs.de/bibliothek/faq UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nbsde/detail.action?docID=6886954 ER -