Product Description: Traders around the world use particular spoken argots. The written registers of traders, too, in their correspondence and commercial texts show significant differences from the language used in official or legal writing. This volume suggests a clear cross-linguistic tendency that mercantile writing displays a greater degree of language mixing, code-switching and linguistic innovation, and, by setting such precedents, promote language change...read more

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Product Description: Following the publication of the first two volumes of Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, the process of describing the MS fragments is now complete. The third and fourth volumes present a comprehensive catalog of the Hebrew Bible fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Additional Series, describing in detail 14,679 items...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Following the successful publication of the first two volumes of Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, the substantial process of describing the MS fragments is now complete. These third and fourth volumes present a comprehensive catalogue of the Hebrew Bible fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Additional Series, describing in detail an impressive tally of 14,679 items...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)