This collection of studies treats the theme of cultural (and other) confrontations between different groups (ethnic, or linguistic, or political, or religious…) within the Middle East, but also in some contributions, the types of confrontation between the West and the Middle East.
Reconstruction of Yiddish Colloquial in Winschoten,
Wout Jac. van Bekkum The Delusion of Identification: The Term
Madhhab in Arabic Grammatical Tradition,
Monique Bernards Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus in Christian East Syria,
Jan N. Bremmer The Syriac Julian Romance,
Jan Willem Drijvers An Arabic Version of John Chrysostom’s
Commentary on Genesis,
Adriana Drint DIYAF: For Camels, Swords and Nabataeans. A Nabataean Centre in Arabic Sources,
Geert Jan van Gelder Persuasion and Persecution: Establishing Church Unity in the Sixth Century,
Jan van Ginkel A Substratum as a Cultured Weapon,
Karel Jongeling 6 Ezra 15, 28-33 and the Historical Events in the Middle of the Third Century,
A.F.J. Klijn As if from Another World. Narsai’s Memra ‘Bad is the time’,
Corrie Molenberg Numbers 27,21: The Priestly Oracle Urim and Tummim and the History of Reception,
Ed Noort An Early Syriac Reference to Qur’an 112?,
Gerrit J. Reinink A New Textual Witness of the Dialogue Poem “The Cherub and the Repentant Thief” in the university Library, Groningen,
Gerrit J. Reinink Jewish-Christian Debate in a Muslim Context: ibn Al-Mahrumas Notes to Ibn Kammuma’s
Examination of the Inquiries into the three Faiths,
Barbara Roggema The Twin Tongues. theory, technique, and Practice of Bilingualism in Ancient Mesopotamia,
Herman L.J. Vanstiphout Reading the Signs,
Niek Veldhuis