Semitic studies in honour of Edward Ullendorff / edited by Geoffrey Khan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ullendorff, Edward.

Khan, Geoffrey.

Series:

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 47.

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; 47

Language:

English

German

Italian

Subjects (All):

Semitic philology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 367 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Semitic studies in honor of Edward Ullendorff

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Language Note:

Chiefly in English with one contribution in Italian and one in German.

Summary:

This is a Festschrift volume for the British Semitist Edward Ullendorff. It contains papers written by leading scholars in the fields of Semitic philology and Near Eastern history and literature. The contributions are wide-ranging, including linguistic studies of Ethiopian Semitic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek, also papers on ancient Near Eastern, biblical, Islamic and Ethiopian history and papers on Amharic and Modern Hebrew literature.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / GEOFFREY KHAN

INTRODUCTION / GEOFFREY KHAN

UPDATE TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF EDWARD ULLENDORFF / GEOFFREY KHAN

SEMITIC TRIRADICALISM AND THE BIRADICAL QUESTION / Gideon Goldenberg

REFLEXES OF QATL FORMS IN GƎ‘ƎZ / John Huehnergard

THE DECAY OF QATTALA/QĀTALA IN GƎ‘ƎZ / Andrzej Zaborski

DEFINITE MARKERS IN MODERN ETHIOPIAN SEMITIC LANGUAGES / David L. Appleyard

IS NEO-ARAMAIC A SEMITIC LANGUAGE? / Simon Hopkins

SOME PARALLELS IN LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN BIBLICAL HEBREW AND NEO-ARAMAIC / Geoffrey Khan

THE DATIVUS ETHICUS IN MEDIEVAL JUDAEO-ARABIC / Joshua Blau

FORM X OF THE VERB IN THE ARABIC DIALECTS OF EASTERN ARABIA / Clive Holes

A CHRISTIAN TRADITION OF HEBREW VOCALISATION IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

THE SCRIPT OF TAIMAN / Giovanni Garbini

VENEZIA E LIVORNO NELLA TOPONOMASTICA ARABA / Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti

THE ETYMOLOGY OF 'ΆNΘPΩΠOΣ A SUGGESTION / James Barr

EHEU, FUGACES / Raphael Loewe

MORE THAN MARGINAL UGARIT IN ITS EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SETTING / John F. Healey

A QUESTIONABLE THEORY OF EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE ON A GENRE OF HEBREW LITERATURE / J. A. Emerton

ISAIAH, MICAH AND QUMRAN / Hugh G.M. Williamson

PSALM 135(136):25 IN A JEWISH GREEK INSCRIPTION FROM NICAEA / Alison Salvesen

DINAH IN A SYRIAC POEM ON JOSEPH / Sebastian Brock

TWO NOTES ON THE ETHIOPIC TEXT OF EZEKIEL / Michael A. Knibb

DIE ÄTHIOPISCHEN HANDSCHRIFTEN DER SAMMLUNG BONGARSIANA CODICES / Veronika Six

AN ARCHAIC AMHARIC POEM ON CONDEMNING WEALTH AND GLORY / Getatchew Haile

INNOVATION AND MISONEISM DURING THE REIGN OF EMPEROR YOHANNES IV OF ETHIOPIA (1872–1889) / Richard Pankhurst

TOWARDS A BIOGRAPHY OF NIẒĀM AL-MULK THREE SOURCES FROM IBN AL-‘ADĪM / C. Edmund Bosworth

JEAN JUSTER AND THE STUDY OF JEWS UNDER ROMAN RULE / Martin Goodman

DANTE AND MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE / Glenda Abramson

HUMOUR IN THE NOVELS OF PERETZ SMOLENSKIN / David Patterson

INDEXES / GEOFFREY KHAN

STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS / GEOFFREY KHAN.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789047415756

9047415752

OCLC:

607443570

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047415756 DOI