Michael C. A. Macdonald is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy. He works on the languages, scripts and ancient history of Arabia and directs the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/ociana/). He has been working at Taymāʾ since 2010.

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• Introduction – by Michael C.A. Macdonald ; I. The use of languages and scripts in settled areas ; Towards a re-assessment of the Ancient North Arabian alphabets used in the oasis of al-ΚUlā – by Michael C.A. Macdonald ; Scribal practices in contact: two Minaic/Dadanitic mixed texts – by Fokelien Kootstra ; ‘Literacy in literate societies’: the scribe in Nabataean and other Aramaic contexts – by John F. Healey ; The role of Aramaic on the Arabian Peninsula in the second half of the first millennium BC – by Peter Stein ; II. The use of languages and scripts among nomads: ; New research on the ‘Thamudic’ graffiti from the region of Дimā (Najrān, Saudi Arabia) – by Alessia Prioletta with a note by Christian J. Robin ; A survey of the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from the Dūmat al-Jandal area (Saudi Arabia) – by Jérôme Norris ; A preliminary investigation of an Ancient North Arabian invocation from the Madaba region of central Jordan – by Hani Hayajneh ; Understanding Safaitic inscriptions in their topographical context – by Ali Al-Manaser ; The earliest attestation of laysa and the implications for its etymology – by Ahmad Al-Jallad ; Papers read at the Special Session

Michael C. A. Macdonald is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy. He works on the languages, scripts and ancient history of Arabia and directs the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/ociana/). He has been working at Taymāʾ since 2010.

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• Introduction – by Michael C.A. Macdonald ; I. The use of languages and scripts in settled areas ; Towards a re-assessment of the Ancient North Arabian alphabets used in the oasis of al-ΚUlā – by Michael C.A. Macdonald ; Scribal practices in contact: two Minaic/Dadanitic mixed texts – by Fokelien Kootstra ; ‘Literacy in literate societies’: the scribe in Nabataean and other Aramaic contexts – by John F. Healey ; The role of Aramaic on the Arabian Peninsula in the second half of the first millennium BC – by Peter Stein ; II. The use of languages and scripts among nomads: ; New research on the ‘Thamudic’ graffiti from the region of Дimā (Najrān, Saudi Arabia) – by Alessia Prioletta with a note by Christian J. Robin ; A survey of the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from the Dūmat al-Jandal area (Saudi Arabia) – by Jérôme Norris ; A preliminary investigation of an Ancient North Arabian invocation from the Madaba region of central Jordan – by Hani Hayajneh ; Understanding Safaitic inscriptions in their topographical context – by Ali Al-Manaser ; The earliest attestation of laysa and the implications for its etymology – by Ahmad Al-Jallad ; Papers read at the Special Session

Michael C. A. Macdonald is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy. He works on the languages, scripts and ancient history of Arabia and directs the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/ociana/). He has been working at Taymāʾ since 2010.

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• Introduction – by Michael C.A. Macdonald ; I. The use of languages and scripts in settled areas ; Towards a re-assessment of the Ancient North Arabian alphabets used in the oasis of al-ΚUlā – by Michael C.A. Macdonald ; Scribal practices in contact: two Minaic/Dadanitic mixed texts – by Fokelien Kootstra ; ‘Literacy in literate societies’: the scribe in Nabataean and other Aramaic contexts – by John F. Healey ; The role of Aramaic on the Arabian Peninsula in the second half of the first millennium BC – by Peter Stein ; II. The use of languages and scripts among nomads: ; New research on the ‘Thamudic’ graffiti from the region of Дimā (Najrān, Saudi Arabia) – by Alessia Prioletta with a note by Christian J. Robin ; A survey of the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from the Dūmat al-Jandal area (Saudi Arabia) – by Jérôme Norris ; A preliminary investigation of an Ancient North Arabian invocation from the Madaba region of central Jordan – by Hani Hayajneh ; Understanding Safaitic inscriptions in their topographical context – by Ali Al-Manaser ; The earliest attestation of laysa and the implications for its etymology – by Ahmad Al-Jallad ; Papers read at the Special Session