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The IOS Annual Volume 21. “Carrying a Torch to Distant Mountains”
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The IOS Annual Volume 21: “Carrying a Torch to Distant Mountains”, brings forth cutting-edge studies devoted to a wide array of fields and disciplines of the Middle East. The three sections—the Ancient Near East, Semitic Languages and Linguistics, and Arabic Language and Literature—include sixteen articles. In the Ancient Near East section are studies devoted to Babylonian literature (Gabbay and Wasserman; Ayali-Darshan), history (Cohen and Torrecilla), and language (Zadok). The Semitic Languages and Linguistics section contains discussions about comparative Semitics—Egyptian and Modern South Arabic (Borg; Cerqueglini), Aramaic dialects (Khan; Stadel), Palestinian Arabic (Arnold; Procházka), and Tigre and Ethiosemitic languages (Voigt). The final section of Arabic Language and Literature is devoted to ʿArabiyya and its grammarians (Dror, Versteegh, Sheyhatovitch, Kasher, and Sadan).
Yoram Cohen, Ph.D. (2003), Harvard University, is Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. He has published four monographs on Hittite society, scribal schools at Emar, wisdom literature, and omen literature, in addition to multiple studies on Bronze Age Syria.
Amir Gilan, Ph.D. (2009), Leipzig University, is Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has written extensively on Hittite history, literature, and religion, including Formen und Inhalte althethitischer historischer Literatur (Texte der Hethiter 29, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2015).
Letizia Cerqueglini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Pisa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, is Lecturer of Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She has published monographs and articles on Semitic languages, cognition, and culture, including Object-based Selection of Spatial Frames of Reference in aṣ-Ṣāniʕ Arabic (Pisa University Press, 2015).
Beata Sheyhatovitch, Ph.D. (2016), Tel Aviv University, is Lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. She has published a monograph on the distinctive terminology in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī and articles on the medieval Arabic linguistic tradition.
Amir Gilan, Ph.D. (2009), Leipzig University, is Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has written extensively on Hittite history, literature, and religion, including Formen und Inhalte althethitischer historischer Literatur (Texte der Hethiter 29, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2015).
Letizia Cerqueglini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Pisa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, is Lecturer of Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She has published monographs and articles on Semitic languages, cognition, and culture, including Object-based Selection of Spatial Frames of Reference in aṣ-Ṣāniʕ Arabic (Pisa University Press, 2015).
Beata Sheyhatovitch, Ph.D. (2016), Tel Aviv University, is Lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. She has published a monograph on the distinctive terminology in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī and articles on the medieval Arabic linguistic tradition.
Editorial
1 “I Am Carrying a Torch to the Faraway Mountains”: An Old Babylonian Bilingual Personal Prayer and Its Textual Transmission
Uri Gabbay and Nathan Wasserman
2 The Campaign against the Suteans and the Project in The Land of Mukiš: A Consideration of Letters RSO 23 28–36, and 39 from the House of Urtenu in Ugarit
Yoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla
3 The Editorial Technique of Resumptive Repetition: The Cosmogony and the Anthropogony in Enūma Eliš
Noga Ayali-Darshan
4 On Aramaic Loanwords in Neo- and Late-babylonian Texts: Introduction and Semantic-Topical Taxonomy (Part One)
Ran Zadok
5 Phonological Peculiarities of Palestinian Folksongs
Werner Arnold
6 Is Old Egyptian dp.t, ‘Ship’, a Bronze Age Afroasiatic Isogloss? An Etymological and Archaeological Vignette
Alexander Borg
7 Ancient Egyptian Words in Modern South Arabian Languages
Letizia Cerqueglini
8 Remarks on the Christian Neo-aramaic Dialect of Shaqlawa
Geoffrey Khan
9 The Arabic Dialects of the Jezreel Plain and the Hula Valley (Galilee): Grammatical Notes, Remarks on Linguistic Contact, and Texts
Stephan Procházka
10 The Loss of the Infinitive and Its Replacement by the Imperfect in Christian Palestinian Aramaic
Christian Stadel
11 Some Remarks about Laryngeal Rules in Tigre
Rainer M. Voigt
12 Cognitive Verbs as a Strategy for Expressing Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in the Qurʾān
Yehudit Dror
13 Redundance and Suppression According to Sībawayhi and al-Farrāʾ
Kees Versteegh
14 The Term fāʾida in Pragmatic and Rhetorical Discussions by Arab Grammarians
Beata Sheyhatovitch
15 How (Not) to Read Pedagogical Grammars of Arabic: The Case of the Subjunctive Mood
Almog Kasher
16 Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on the Structure of the Adverbial Accusative of Cause and Purpose (al-mafʿūl lahu) According to Arabic Grammarians
Arik Sadan
Index
Part 1 The Ancient Near East
1 “I Am Carrying a Torch to the Faraway Mountains”: An Old Babylonian Bilingual Personal Prayer and Its Textual Transmission
Uri Gabbay and Nathan Wasserman
2 The Campaign against the Suteans and the Project in The Land of Mukiš: A Consideration of Letters RSO 23 28–36, and 39 from the House of Urtenu in Ugarit
Yoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla
3 The Editorial Technique of Resumptive Repetition: The Cosmogony and the Anthropogony in Enūma Eliš
Noga Ayali-Darshan
4 On Aramaic Loanwords in Neo- and Late-babylonian Texts: Introduction and Semantic-Topical Taxonomy (Part One)
Ran Zadok
Part 2 Semitic Languages and Linguistics
5 Phonological Peculiarities of Palestinian Folksongs
Werner Arnold
6 Is Old Egyptian dp.t, ‘Ship’, a Bronze Age Afroasiatic Isogloss? An Etymological and Archaeological Vignette
Alexander Borg
7 Ancient Egyptian Words in Modern South Arabian Languages
Letizia Cerqueglini
8 Remarks on the Christian Neo-aramaic Dialect of Shaqlawa
Geoffrey Khan
9 The Arabic Dialects of the Jezreel Plain and the Hula Valley (Galilee): Grammatical Notes, Remarks on Linguistic Contact, and Texts
Stephan Procházka
10 The Loss of the Infinitive and Its Replacement by the Imperfect in Christian Palestinian Aramaic
Christian Stadel
11 Some Remarks about Laryngeal Rules in Tigre
Rainer M. Voigt
Part 3 Arabic Language and Literature
12 Cognitive Verbs as a Strategy for Expressing Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in the Qurʾān
Yehudit Dror
13 Redundance and Suppression According to Sībawayhi and al-Farrāʾ
Kees Versteegh
14 The Term fāʾida in Pragmatic and Rhetorical Discussions by Arab Grammarians
Beata Sheyhatovitch
15 How (Not) to Read Pedagogical Grammars of Arabic: The Case of the Subjunctive Mood
Almog Kasher
16 Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on the Structure of the Adverbial Accusative of Cause and Purpose (al-mafʿūl lahu) According to Arabic Grammarians
Arik Sadan
Index
Scholars of the Middle East, Afroasiatic and Semitic languages, ancient Near East, ancient Egypt, history and culture of the Mediterranean, literature, and religion.