@article{2015preliminary author = {}, title = {Preliminary Thoughts on the Language of Sifre Zuta on Numbers}, journal = {Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft}, volume = {165}, number = {2}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Sifre Zuta on Numbers is one of two Tannaitic halakhic midrashim that belonged to the ‘Zuta school’, a southern rabbinic center situated in Lod. A preliminary examination of a geniza fragment of the text (MS Firkovich) yielded three groups of linguistic features: (a) authentic features of Rabbinic Hebrew, which demonstrate the high quality of the text preserved in the manuscript; (b) lexical connections with Biblical Hebrew and Palestinian piyyuṭ, which point to lexical and stylistic singularity within rabbinic literature; (c) unique linguistic features that suggest grammatical (and perhaps dialectical) singularity. Several connections between the language of Sifre Zuta and another southern idiom, Qumranic Hebrew, were identified.}, url = {https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.165.2.0303} doi = {10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.165.2.0303} }