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Relative Clauses and Genitive Construction in Semitic
Häftad, 2009
361 kr
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This volume is the outcome of two workshops held at the University of Salford: Relative clauses and attribution in Semitic (April 18th 2007) and Genitive constructions in Semitic: Comparative and diachronic perspectives (April 7th and 8th 2008).
Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible
Häftad, 2001
578 kr
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This volume contains 16 papers presented to the 1999 Annual Meeting of the British Association of Jewish Studies held in Manchester. The conference theme was "Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible". Participants addressed the theme from a wide range of different perspectives; classical, medieval and …
Studies on Arabia in Honour of G. Rex Smith
Av John F. Healey, Venetia Porter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
578 kr
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This collection of essays was put together to honour a lifetime's academic achievement by Professor G. Rex Smith, arabist, historian and scholar of the medieval history of the Yemen. Written by his friends, colleagues and former students, these essays reflect his wide ranging interests in the …
Exegesis and Grammar in Medieval Karaite Texts
Inbunden, 2002
578 kr
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This volume contains a collection of articles that present studies of medieval Karaite texts. In recent years many new medieval manuscript sources of Karaite texts have become available that show the central role that the Karaites played in the development of medieval Jewish thought. The articles …
History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East
Häftad, 2005
301 kr
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This important collection of articles by leading international scholars in the field of publishing and printing in the languages and countries of the Middle East results from a symposium held at the Gutenburg Museum in the Mainz in conjunction with the first World Congress for Middle Eastern …
From Cairo to Manchester: Studies in the Rylands Genizah Fragments
Av Renate Smithuis, Philip Alexander
Häftad, 2013
364 kr
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The Egyptian Historian 'Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti
His Life, Works, Autographs, Manuscripts and the Historical Sources of 'Aja'ib al-Athar
Av Shmuel Moreh
Inbunden, 2014
374 kr
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This study is the companion volume to the new Arabic Edition of 'Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti's imposing magnum opus 'Aja'ib al-Athar fi 'l-Tarajim wa-'l-Akhbar (The Marvellous Compositions of Biographies and Events) that was edited by Moreh. Al-Jabarti's work presents the main chronicles and …
The Palmyrene Tax Tariff
Av Ilia Sholeimovich Shifman, John F. Healey
Inbunden, 2014
374 kr
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Shifman's monograph on the Palmyrene tax inscription of 137 CE, published in Russian in 1980, has been largely neglected in subsequent scholarship, sharing the fate of other fine contributions published in Russian. A wide-ranging scholar in Classics and Semitics, Shifman had direct access to the …
Arab and Arabic Linguistics
Traditional and New Theoretical Approaches
Inbunden, 2014
374 kr
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This volume brings together the eight papers presented by a panel on Arabic linguistics organized on the occasion of the 14th Italian Meeting of Afroasiatic Linguistics held in Turin in 2011. They address multiple aspects of classical and colloquial Arabic: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology …
The Transmission of Targum Jonathan in the West: A Study of Italian and Ashkenazi Manuscripts of the Targum to Samuel
Inbunden, 2015
364 kr
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Targum Jonathan is one of our most important sources for understanding how Jews read, interpreted, and used the Hebrew Bible in Late Antiquity and in subsequent generations: it is cited widely in rabbinic literature and by medieval commentators (Rashi, Kimhi, etc.) and continued to play a role in …
Soqotri Texts in the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences An Annotated Edition
Av Vitaly Naumkin, Leonid Kogan m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
374 kr
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13 poetic fragments in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (the island of Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen), recorded phonographically at the beginning of the 20th century by the Austrian orientalist David Heinrich Mueller, are presented in phonological transcription and English translation. Each …
Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology, Hippocrates' Aphorisms in the Hebrew Tradition
Volume Three
Av Gerrit Bos
Inbunden, 2016
374 kr
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This volume is part of a wider project aiming at mapping the technical medical terminology as it features in medieval Hebrew medical works, especially those terms that do not feature in the current dictionaries at all, or insufficiently. In this way the author hopes to facilitate the consultation …
The Formation of Quadriliteral Verbs in Iraqi Arabic Dialects
Häftad, 2017
374 kr
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The quadriliteral verbs in Arabic established a system, which compared to the triliteral verbs, add a new dimension and flexibility to the speakers of Arabic and facilitate meeting the daily demands of modern era for new modes of expression. The basic function of the expansions into quadrilateral …
Syriac Medicine and Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic Translation of the Hippocratic Aphorisms
Häftad, 2018
374 kr
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The Syriac medical tradition constitutes an important bridge traversing the imposing historical gap between the late Hellenic and early Islamic periods in southwest Asia. This volume traces this history from Justinian-era monastic communities through Sassanid medical academies to the caliphal court …
Statistics, Linguistics and the 'Biblical' Dead Sea Scrolls
Av Jarod Jacobs
Inbunden, 2018
374 kr
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The linguistic character of the 'biblical' Dead Sea Scrolls has been of interest to scholars since the very beginning of scrolls research. However, scholars have disagreed over the nature of the language found in those scrolls. Some argue that the 'biblical' scrolls are essential to our …
Near East and Arabian Essays
Studies in Honour of John F. Healey
Av G. Rex Smith, George J. Brooke m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
374 kr
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This rich set of essays in honour of Professor John Healey FBA represents both his wide-ranging interests and those of the Journal of Semitic Studies of which he has been editor for thirty years. The studies by leaders in their respective disciplines cover texts and languages, history and …
The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface of the Biblical Hebrew Verb Forms
Av Galia Hatav
Häftad, 2018
374 kr
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This volume includes two general chapters; the first of these chapters suggests a new analysis of perfectivity in language, showing how the Biblical Hebrew verb forms encode perfectivity. The second deals with modality within the approach of possible-world-semantics, showing that Biblical Hebrew …
A Comparative Cultural Glossary across the Modern South Arabian Language Family
Av Miranda Morris, Janet C.E. Watson m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
374 kr
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This volume is the result of collaborative work conducted with a number of native speakers of the languages over several years. The volume presents a comparative cultural glossary of 345 head terms, which are given in the six Modern South Arabian languages: Group I: Mehri, Harsusi and Bathari; …
To Gaul, to Greece and into Noah's Ark
Essays in Honour of Kevin J. Cathcart on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday
Av Laura Quick, Ekaterina E. Kozlova m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
374 kr
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This collection of fifteen essays on biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts, language, and culture is dedicated to Professor Kevin James Cathcart, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Languages, University College Dublin, on the occasion of his 80th birthday in gratitude for his extraordinary …
The Impact of Midrash
Häftad, 2006
292 kr
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The Impact of Midrash is a contribution to the analysis of a major aspect of early rabbinic exegesis, the influence of Midrash on the lives and beliefs of the Jewish people in the Holy land in the opening centuries of the current era. It examines the earliest rabbinic interpretations of the opening …
Voices of Exiles
A Study of al-Tayyib Salih and his Work
Häftad, 2007
418 kr
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Al- Tayyib Salih is not merely another writer in the Arab world or in exile. The fact that he is a Sudanese author who has spent more years of his life in the West than in the Arab world, and who writes in Arabic, transforms his literary work into a special phenomenon. Although very few of his …
A Catalogue of Previously Uncatalogued Ethiopic Manuscripts in England
Twenty-three Manuscripts in the Bodleian, Cambridge, and Rylands Libraries and in a Private Collection
Av Steve Delamarter, Demeke Berhane
Häftad, 2007
364 kr
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This work provides the essential information on twenty-three previously uncatalogued Ethiopic manuscripts in England: fourteen in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University, two in the Cambridge University Library, three in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, and four from the private …
A Medieval Administrative and Fiscal Treatise from the Yemen
The Rasulid Mulakhkhas al-Fitan of al-Hasan B. Ali al-Husayni
Av G. Rex Smith
Häftad, 2007
291 kr
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The importance of the text which is used as the basis of this book was first recognized in the 1950s by both Claude Cahen and R.B. Serjeant. By good fortune, their individual research efforts were brought together by a mutual friend and colleague and from the 1950s until their deaths in the 1990s …
The Nabataean Tomb Inscriptions of Mada'in Salih
Inbunden, 1993
595 kr
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The first full study of the important first century AD Nabataean inscriptions of Mada'in Salih in Saudi Arabia since the turn of the century. A unique and authoritative work incorporating 50 halftone illustrations of tomb inscriptions. This is the first of the new series of Supplements to the …
Saint Ephrem's Commentary on Tatian's Diatessaron
An English Translation of Chester Beatty Syriac MS 709 with Introduction and Notes
Av Saint Ephrem
Inbunden, 1993
506 kr
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This is the first English translation of the commentary by fourth century AD theologian Ephrem the Syrian on the Diatessaron, a Gospel woven from the text of the four Gospels, which predates our earliest evidence of the official Syriac translation of the New Testament.
The Knowledge of Life
The Origins and Early History of the Mandaeans and their Relations to the Sabians of the Qu'ran and to the Harranians
Inbunden, 1994
426 kr
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A survey of the historical and religious problems involved in the interconnection between the Sabians of the Qu'ran, the Mandaeans of southern Iraq, and the `Sabians' of Harran in northern Mesopotamia.This is the third in the new series of Supplements to the Journal of Semitic Studies (OUP). These …
Ancient Yemen
Some General Trends of Evolution of the Sabaic Language and Sabaean Culture
Inbunden, 1995
448 kr
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This volume contains an important and detailed examination of the evolution of Sabaic language and culture, utilizing a number of previously unpublished pre-Islamic South Arabian inscriptions.
Jewish Contributions to Nineteenth-Century Arabic Theatre
Plays from Algeria and Syria - a Study and Texts
Av Shmuel Moreh, Philip Sadgrove
Inbunden, 1996
663 kr
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This study and edition of nineteenth century Arabic plays, by an Algerian Jew and teachers at the Jewish school in Beirut, reveals the considerable contribution of the Jewish community to the early development of modern Arabic drama. The plays link the Arabian Nights and Jewish Purim-shpil with the …
From Judaism to Christianity
Studies in the Hebrew and Syriac Bible
Av Michael Perry Weitzman, A. Rapoport-Albert m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
774 kr
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Dr Michael Weitzman was one of the leading biblical scholars of his generation. This volume brings together his most important contributions to the study of the Hebrew and the Syriac bibles, and the relationship between ancient Judaism and emerging Christianity. The Syriac Version has not …
The Book of the Islamic Market Inspector
Inbunden, 2000
664 kr
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The book is a fully annotated translation of al-Shayzari's Nihayat al-Rutba fi Talab al-Hisba (The Utmost Degree in the Pursuit of Hisba), a manual written in the 12th century AD for the practical use of the Islamic inspector of markets. It is the earliest extant book of its kind to appear in the …
