To the Madbar and Back Again

Laila Nehmé, Ph.D. (1994) University of Paris I, is Director of Research at the CNRS since 2014. She received a knighthood in the Ordre National du Mérite, in 2010. She works on the development of Nabataean writing in Arabic scripture, and is compiling a corpus of Nabatéo-Arabic Texts (4th-5th centuries) on which she carries out paleographic and linguistics analyses.Ahmad Al-Jallad, Ph.D. (2012) Harvard University, is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University. He has published on the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, the history of Arabic, and on the epigraphy of Ancient North Arabia, including An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions (Brill, 2015).

• The Research of M.C.A. MacdonaldPublications of M.C.A. MacdonaldTabula GratulatoriaTables and FiguresContributorsEpigraphy and Philology1 Les artisans et professions « libérales » dans le domaine nabatéenLaila Nehmé2 Anmerkungen zum safaitischen und althebräischen OnomastikonWalter W. Müller3 Safaitic Prayers, Curses, Grief and More from Wadi Salhub—North-Eastern JordanHani Hayajneh4 Notes on ḥwb in SafaiticChiara Della Puppa5 Traditional Music or Religious Ritual? Ancient Rock Art Illumined by Bedouin CustomAli Al-Manaser6 The Formularies and Their Historical Implications: Two Examples from Ancient South Arabian Epigraphic DocumentationAlessandra Avanzini7 Ancient South Arabian Graffiti from Shabathān (Governorate of al-Bayḍāʾ, Yemen)Alessia Prioletta8 Schreiben, meißeln, Fehler machen. Zur Funktion von Schrift im öffentlichen Raum im antiken SüdarabienPeter Stein9 The Phonemes ẓ and ṭ in the Dadanitic InscriptionsFokelien Kootstra10 Dadanitic Inscriptions from Jabal al-Khraymāt (Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ)María del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacón Díez11 Un sanctuaire de montagne : MushannafMaurice Sartre12 Un pasteur et un soldat ? Deux inscriptions grecques d’ époque romaine à l’ est du Jabal ḤawrānFrançois Villeneuve13 Méharistes et cavaliers romains dans le désert jordanienPierre-Louis Gatier14 Goras, sanglier ou jeune lion (ou onagre) ?Jean-Baptiste Yon15 A Lead Syriac Protective TalismanSebastian Brock16 Two New Arabic Inscriptions: Arabian Castles and Christianity in the Umayyad PeriodRobert Hoyland17 The Etymology of ḤattāAhmad al-Jallad18 Are Libyco-Berber Horizontal ṯ and Vertical h the Same Sign?Marijn van PuttenArchaeology, History and Religion19 The Outer Wall of Taymāʾ and Its Dating to the Bronze AgeArnulf Hausleiter20 Pottery from the “Midianite Heartland”? On Tell Kheleifeh and Qurayyah Painted Ware. New Evidence from the Harvard Semitic MuseumMarta Luciani21 A Caravan Merchant Family of ‘Antioch on the Chrysorhoas’. A Glimpse of Hellenistic Gerasa as a CaravanseraiIna Kehrberg(-Ostrasz)22 The Visit of Mālik bin Muʿāwiyah, King of Kindah and Maḏḥiǧ to the Himyarite King Šammar Yuharʿiš in MaʾribMohammed Maraqten23 Der rituelle Umzug des Yadaʿʾil Ḏarīḥ nach ṢirwāḥNorbert Nebes24 Sedentism of Arabs in the 8th–4th Centuries BCIsrael Ephʿal25 Reflections on Arab Leadership in Late AntiquityGreg Fisher26 A Paradise in the Desert: Iram at the Intersection of One Thousand and One Nights, Quranic Exegesis, and Arabian historyOrhan Elmaz27 Mourning for the Dead and the Beginning of Idolatry in the Kitāb al-Aṣnām and the Spelunca Thesaurorum—an Unknown Parallel to Sūrat at-Takāṯur (Q102)?Konstantin M. Klein28 Temple Inscriptions and “the Death of the God(s)”John F. Healey29 ‘The Conception of Jesus’Hannah M. Cotton PaltielModern Dialects and Tribes30 Drink Long and Drink in Peace: Singing to Livestock at Water in Dhofar, Sultanate of OmanMiranda J. Morris and Sālim ʕAwaḏ̣̣ Ahmad al-Shaḥri31 South Arabian Sibilants and the Śḥerɛ̄t s̃ ~ š ContrastAlex Bellem and Janet C.E. Watson32 Was There a “Bedouinisation of Arabia? Probably Not, at Least in the Way It Has so Far been PortrayedWilliam Lancaster and Fidelity LancasterIndex