- Professor Joshua Blau ז״ל was an Israeli scholar of Arabic language and literature, currently Professor Emeritus at t... moreProfessor Joshua Blau ז״ל was an Israeli scholar of Arabic language and literature, currently Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Blau was elected as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1968. Blau was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1983. He passed away on October 20, 2020 at the age of 101 in Jerusalem, Israel.
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Joshua Blau, “Translation of the Introduction and the Letter ‘Aleph’ in The Hebrew-Arabic Dictionary of the Bible (Kitab Jami’ Al-Alfaz) of David ben Abraham Al-Fasi, ed. Solomon L. Skoss,” in Zvi Stampfer and Miriam Frenkel, eds.,... more
Joshua Blau, “Translation of the Introduction and the Letter ‘Aleph’ in The Hebrew-Arabic Dictionary of the Bible (Kitab Jami’ Al-Alfaz) of David ben Abraham Al-Fasi, ed. Solomon L. Skoss,” in Zvi Stampfer and Miriam Frenkel, eds., Jubilee Volume in Honor of Professor Joshua Blau on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday*, eds. [=Ginzei Kedem, vol. 16] (Jerusalem: The Friedberg Genizah Project and Ben-Zvi Institute, 2020), 9-152 (Hebrew)
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full citation: Joshua Blau, “Translation of the Introduction and the Letter ‘Aleph’ in The Hebrew-Arabic Dictionary of the Bible (Kitab Jami' Al-Alfaz) of David ben Abraham Al-Fasi, ed. Solomon L. Skoss,” in Jubilee Volume in Honor of... more
full citation: Joshua Blau, “Translation of the Introduction and the Letter ‘Aleph’ in The Hebrew-Arabic Dictionary of the Bible (Kitab Jami' Al-Alfaz) of David ben Abraham Al-Fasi, ed. Solomon L. Skoss,” in Jubilee Volume in Honor of Prof. Joshua Blau on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday [=Ginzei Qedem, vol. 16 (2020), 9-152 (Hebrew)
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Joshua Blau, “Classical Arabic as Obstacle to the Reconstruction of Ancient Hebrew and the ‘Syndrome of Inferences Bereft of Their Premises’,” in Michael Heltzer, et al., eds., Teshurot LaAvishur: Festschrift Presented to Prof. Yitzhak Avishur (Jaffa: Archaeological Center, 2004), 115-118 (Hebrew)more