📢#OutNow in #OA: 'The #Linguistic Classification of the #Reading Traditions of #Biblical #Hebrew: A Phyla-and-Waves Model' by Benjamin Kantor.

There are a whole host of modern reading traditions of Biblical #Hebrew, from #Ashkenazi, to #Sephardi, and #Yemenite. Despite the rich diversity of traditions of #Biblical Hebrew at our fingertips, the #linguistic relationship between them has never been mapped out. In this book the phyla-and-waves methodology, which has been used for Semitic language classification, is used to map out the relationship between the main reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew throughout history.

Access at https://openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0210

A setting of a seventeenth-century poem by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi turned into a song John Peel championed and a German number one hit.

Ofra Haza's combination of traditional Yemeni instruments and Western disco was augmented by some very effective scratching, Haza's music was sampled on Eric B & Rakim's "Paid in full".

Haza died in 2000 of an AIDS-related illness.

#Popiversary2 #OfraHaza #Yemenite #Judaism #JohnPeel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvDkryqHoHE