Index
Aaron
158
abbreviations
140
abstinence
5
Achaemenid period
1
Ahasuerus
1
Aḥiqar
127
Akkadian
9, 114, 130
al-Bīrūnī
5–7
amulets
shaped like seals
2
Anāhīd
158
angels
fallen
97
Arabic
97
assimilation of d-
68
Buddha
5
cartouche
70, 146, 182, 197
Christianity and Christians
5–8, 178
clients
7
Daniel, in lion’s den
5
demons as promiscuous
114
dittography
186
divination
158
divorce bill
2, 219
economic magic
17
Egyptian Pyramid Texts of Unis
219
Elisur Bagdana
78, 219
Esther
1
Exile, Babylonian
4
Ezra
219
graphic errors
144, 152, 156
Greek
17, 23, 97
Haman
1
haplography
26, 186, 192, 195
High Priest
158
hypercorrection
144
Isaac, binding of
5
Islam
5–6
Jerusalem
temple
4
Jesus Christ
5–6
Joshua bar Peraḥia
209, 219
Latin
209
legal documents
2
loanwords
17, 23, 65, 209
magic
and religion
5
dangerous
5
in secret
5
Mandaic
8–9, 20, 29, 42, 53, 65, 71, 82, 87, 92, 107, 111, 114, 138, 149, 158, 162, 166–167, 221
Mani and Manichaeism
5–8
marriage of siblings
178
Middle Persian
4, 6, 65, 88
military terminology
149, 158
Mordechai
1
names of power
3–4
Ohrmazd
5
Old Turkish
6
Osiris
219
ouroboros
80
pagans
8, 209
Pahlavi script
4
Parthian
6
Parthian period
1
phonetic spellings
90, 102, 127, 131, 162, 195, 226
qamaṣ represented by waw
47, 190
qeṭīl l- forms
198
reduction
of -āʾā
61
of ʿayin
18, 65, 90, 116, 121, 131, 144, 156, 161–162, 164, 197, 210–211, 220–221
sandhi spellings
42, 131, 144, 203
Sasanian period
1, 4–5
scribes
7
Seal of the Prophets
5–7
sexual sin
97
sexual threat
97
shift
/a/ > /i/
118
/a/ > /u/
192
Sogdian
6
Syriac
6, 8, 23, 53, 82, 91–92, 95, 97, 107, 111, 114, 121, 127, 138, 162, 167, 178, 180, 186, 197–198, 209, 221–222
Tabernacles
4
Turfan
6
Vashti
1
vowel loss
146
xwēdōdah
178
Zoroastrianism and Zoroastrians
5–8, 178, 209