Teddy Fassberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 715141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teddy Fassberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teddy |
| FAMILY NAME | Fassberg |
| SIGNATURE | FASSBERG T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3729-9371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Greco-Arabic Belles Lettres: Reinterpreting the Baghdad Translation Movement
Speaking Objects and the Early Greek Conception of Writing
One of the most remarkable features of the language of early Greek writing is a pervasive rhetorical strategy which consists in personifying objects for the purpose of identifying humans closely associated with them. Such ‘speaking objects’ have no Semitic parallel; how, then, is their conventional status in the Archaic Age to be explained? This article first considers the formulaic language of speaking objects, which is no straightforward transc…
The Greek death of Sībawayhi and the origins of Arabic grammar
Sībawayhi, the founder of the Arabic grammatical tradition, was said to have died in Persia of sorrow after losing to Kufan rivals in a competition in Baghdad. The first part of this article demonstrates the artifice of Sībawayhi's biography, his death tradition in particular, and the stakes involved in its elaboration in early Islamic culture. The second part argues that the tradition of his death was based on the model of Homer's death, which c…
Prolegomena to Any Future Edition of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics: Theodore’s Arabic Translation
No critical edition of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics takes into account the evidence of Theodore’s Arabic translation. The 1964 Oxford Classical Text edition, while dismissing its value, attributes it to a Theodore who did not translate it, in a century in which he did not live. Arabists have since uncovered the identity of Theodore the translator, which has consequences for its philological value, in which Arabists have understandably not taken an…
Greek Death of Imruʾ al-Qays
It is commonly remarked, as a curiosity, that Imruʾ al-Qays's traditional death resembles that of Heracles, but it has never been meaningfully discussed. This article undertakes to do so, arguing for the Greek provenance of his death tradition and discussing the implications of the Islamic construction of a Greek death for "the greatest Arab poet." One implication involves his biography more generally, which is argued to have originally formed a …
Speaking Objects and the Early Greek Conception of Writing
One of the most remarkable features of the language of early Greek writing is a pervasive rhetorical strategy which consists in personifying objects for the purpose of identifying humans closely associated with them. Such ‘speaking objects’ have no Semitic parallel; how, then, is their conventional status in the Archaic Age to be explained? This article first considers the formulaic language of speaking objects, which is no straightforward transc…
The Greek death of Sībawayhi and the origins of Arabic grammar
Sībawayhi, the founder of the Arabic grammatical tradition, was said to have died in Persia of sorrow after losing to Kufan rivals in a competition in Baghdad. The first part of this article demonstrates the artifice of Sībawayhi's biography, his death tradition in particular, and the stakes involved in its elaboration in early Islamic culture. The second part argues that the tradition of his death was based on the model of Homer's death, which c…
Greek Death of Imruʾ al-Qays
It is commonly remarked, as a curiosity, that Imruʾ al-Qays's traditional death resembles that of Heracles, but it has never been meaningfully discussed. This article undertakes to do so, arguing for the Greek provenance of his death tradition and discussing the implications of the Islamic construction of a Greek death for "the greatest Arab poet." One implication involves his biography more generally, which is argued to have originally formed a …
Prolegomena to Any Future Edition of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics: Theodore’s Arabic Translation
No critical edition of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics takes into account the evidence of Theodore’s Arabic translation. The 1964 Oxford Classical Text edition, while dismissing its value, attributes it to a Theodore who did not translate it, in a century in which he did not live. Arabists have since uncovered the identity of Theodore the translator, which has consequences for its philological value, in which Arabists have understandably not taken an…
Greek Death of Imruʾ al-Qays
It is commonly remarked, as a curiosity, that Imruʾ al-Qays's traditional death resembles that of Heracles, but it has never been meaningfully discussed. This article undertakes to do so, arguing for the Greek provenance of his death tradition and discussing the implications of the Islamic construction of a Greek death for "the greatest Arab poet." One implication involves his biography more generally, which is argued to have originally formed a …
The Greek death of Sībawayhi and the origins of Arabic grammar
Sībawayhi, the founder of the Arabic grammatical tradition, was said to have died in Persia of sorrow after losing to Kufan rivals in a competition in Baghdad. The first part of this article demonstrates the artifice of Sībawayhi's biography, his death tradition in particular, and the stakes involved in its elaboration in early Islamic culture. The second part argues that the tradition of his death was based on the model of Homer's death, which c…
Speaking Objects and the Early Greek Conception of Writing
One of the most remarkable features of the language of early Greek writing is a pervasive rhetorical strategy which consists in personifying objects for the purpose of identifying humans closely associated with them. Such ‘speaking objects’ have no Semitic parallel; how, then, is their conventional status in the Archaic Age to be explained? This article first considers the formulaic language of speaking objects, which is no straightforward transc…
Greco-Arabic Belles Lettres: Reinterpreting the Baghdad Translation Movement
Historical and Linguistic Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Arabic (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Biography (2 works)