Near Eastern and Arabian essays : studies in honour of John F. Healey / edited by George J. Brooke, Adrian H.W. Curtis, Muntasir al-Hamad and G. Rex Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamad, Muntaṣir Fāʼiz, editor.

Curtis, Adrian, editor.

Smith, G. Rex (Gerald Rex), editor.

Healey, John F., honouree.

Brooke, George J., editor.

Series:

Journal of Semitic studies. Supplement ; 0022-4480 41.

Journal of Semitic studies. Supplement, 0022-4480 ; 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semitic philology.

Inscriptions, Semitic.

Middle East--Civilization.

Middle East.

Civilization.

Middle East--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xx, 313 pages : illustrations (some color), map (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester, 2018.

Contents:

The place of Elias Levita's Meturgeman in the history of Targum studies / Philip Alexander

'Crowning the hills': a contribution to the debate about the legacy of Canaan / George J. Brooke

North Arabian features in the Nabataean Aramaic inscriptions from Madā'in Sālih: a contact-linguistic analysis / Aaron Michael Butts

Communication between Gods and Kings in Phoenician and early Aramaic inscriptions / Kevin J. Cathcart

The gleaner woman: A text in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Peshabur / Eleanor Coghill

Baal-Berith and El-Berith: some issues arising from Judges 8 and 9 / Adrian H. W. Curtis

An additional notebook containing E.H. Palmer's copies of Nabataean inscriptions in the Sinai Peninsula / Graham Davies

Huns, Turks and Tatars in Syriac liminal spaces / Mark Dickens

A Thamudic inscription by a 'deputy' (Ḫlf) at Humayma / David F. Graf

The Gnostic tendencies in human understanding in Ṣūfī literature / Ṣinasi Gündüz

Revisiting the Arabic verses of the 'Ain 'Avdat inscription / Muntasir al-Hamad

Perspectives on Syriac Christianity in Southern Mesopotamia and the Gulf / Erica C.D. Hunter

Remarks on the Hellenistic features in architecture and art in the city of Hatra / Adil al-Jadir

Sound symbolism in Neo-Aramaic / Geoffrey Khan

Cultural imperialism at the borders of empire: the case of the 'Villa of the Amazons' in Edessa / Emma Loosley

Clues to how a Nabataean may have spoken, from a Hismaic inscription / M.C.A Macdonald

A Syriac cross from Hatra / Marco Moriggi

Writing 'the other': a fear of difference: Strabo and the Nabataeans / Fahad M. Al-Otaibi

Reflections on a heart-shaped Pier at Petra / Kay Prag

'Murder most foul' -a report in literary mixed Arabic of the final journey and death of Hermann Burchardt in early twentieth-century Yemen / G. Rex Smith

Minaean inscription Jaussen-Savignac 4: a new reading / Solaiman Abdulrahman al-Theeb and Fuad Hassan al-Amer

Some observations on commerce and covenant in the Qur'an / Andrew Marsham

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0198831064

9780198831068

OCLC:

1061805149