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Volume 57 Issue 1 Spring 2012

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Articles

    • Alexander Andrason

    Cognitive Foundations of the Old Babylonian Iparras

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 1-23 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr030
    • Yoo-Ki Kim

    The Origin of the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Construct

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 25-35 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr031
    • Zeyad Al-Salameen and
    • Hani Falahat

    Two New Nabataean Inscriptions from Wādī Mūsā, with Discussion of Gaia and the Marzēaḥ

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 37-51 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr032
    • J.N. Ford and
    • Dan Levene

    ‘For Aḥata-de-'abuh daughter of Imma’, Two Aramaic Incantation Bowls in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (VA 2414 and VA 2426)

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 53-67 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr033
    • Andrew Marsham

    The Pact (amāna) between Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān and ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ (656 or 658 CE): ‘Documents’ and the Islamic Historical Tradition

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 69-96 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr034
    • J. Bruning

    Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm b. Al-Dāya (3rd/9th c.): A Study into his Life and Works

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 97-120 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr035
    • Dorit Gottesfeld

    Women Painting: Use of Colour in the Works of Rajā' Bakriyya

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 121-144 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr036
    • Oliver Kahl

    The Prolegomena to Sābūr Ibn Sahl's Small Dispensatory

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 145-163 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr037

Reviews

    • Wilfred G.E. Watson

    Hayim ben Yosef Tawil, An Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew. Etymological-Semantic and Idiomatic Equivalents with Supplement on Biblical Aramaic.

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 165-167 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr038
    • Wilfred G.E. Watson

    Lorenzo d'Alfonso, Yoram Cohen and Dietrich Sürenhagen (eds), The City of Emar among the Late Bronze Age Empires. History, Landscape, and Society: Proceedings of the Konstanz Emar Conference, 25.–26.04. 2006 (AOAT 349).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 167-170 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr039
    • Roger Tomes

    Douglas J. Green, “I Undertook Great Works”: The Ideology of Domestic Achievements in West Semitic Royal Inscriptions (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2 Reihe 41).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 170-172 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr040
    • K.A. Kitchen

    Robert K. Ritner, The Libyan Anarchy: Inscriptions from Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, Translated with an Introduction and Notes, edited by Edward Wente (Writings from the Ancient World 21).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 172-173 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr041
    • Baruch A. Levine

    Alejandro F. Botta, The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach (Library of Second Temple Studies 64).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 173-176 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr042
    • Zev Farber

    Joseph Blenkinsopp, Judaism the First Phase: The Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins of Judaism.

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 176-177 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr043
    • Francis Landy

    Scott J. Noegel and Gary A. Rendsburg, Solomon's Vineyard: Literary and Linguistic Studies in the Song of Songs (Ancient Israel and Its Literature 1).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 177-180 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr044
    • Russell Earl Fuller

    Philip Peter Jenson, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah: A Theological Commentary (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 496).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 180-182 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr045
    • Matthew Morgenstern

    C.G. Häberl, The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr (Semitica Viva 45).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 182-185 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr046
    • Michael Knibb

    Getatchew Haile, Melaku Terefe, Roger M. Rundell, Daniel Alemu and Steve Delamarter, Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Volume 1, Codices 1–105, Magic Scrolls 1–134. (Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies Series 1). Steve Delamarter and Melaku Terefe, Ethiopian Scribal Practice 1: Plates for the Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies Series 2).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 185-186 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr047
    • Aaron D. Rubin

    Ronny Meyer, Das Zay: Deskriptive Grammatik einer Ostguragesprache (Äthiosemitisch) (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages 25). Ronny Meyer, Wolane: Descriptive Grammar of an East Gurage Language (Ethiosemitic) (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages 31).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 186-189 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr048
    • Alessandra Avanzini

    Barbara Jändl, Altsüdarabische Inschriften auf Metall (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, Band 4).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 189-191 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr049
    • Orhan Elmaz

    Peter Stein, Die altsüdarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstäbchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München. Band 1. Die Inschriften der mittel- und spätsabäischen Periode. 1. Teil: Text, 2. Teil: Verzeichnisse und Tafeln. Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel Band 5.

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 191-193 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr050
    • Paul Auchterlonie

    Adam Gacek, Arabic Manuscripts: a Vademecum for Readers (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1, The Near and Middle East, volume 98).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 193-195 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr051
    • Oliver Kahl

    Fabian Käs, Die Mineralien in der arabischen Pharmakognosie: Eine Konkordanz zur mineralischen Materia medica der klassischen arabischen Heilmittelkunde nebst überlieferungsgeschichtlichen Studien (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Band 54).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 195-198 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr052

Short Notes

    • John F. Healey

    Kevin J. Cathcart (ed.). The Correspondence of Edward Hincks.

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 199 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr053
    • George J. Brooke

    Loren R. Fisher, Tales from Ancient Egypt: The Birth of Stories.

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 200 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr054
    • John F. Healey

    Carole Roche, (ed.), D'Ougarit à Jérusalem. Recueil d'études épigraphiques et archéolo giques offert à Pierre Bordreuil (Orient et Méditerranée 2).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 200-201 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr055
    • John F. Healey

    Joseph Naveh, Studies in West-Semitic Epigraphy: Selected Papers.

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 201 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr056
    • Walter Moberly

    Francesca Stavrakopolou and John Barton (eds), Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel and Judah.

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 201-202 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr057
    • Walter Moberly

    Baruch Halpern (ed. Matthew J. Adams), From Gods to God: The Dynamics of Iron Age Cosmologies (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 63).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 202-203 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr058
    • Jenni Williams

    Jennie R. Ebeling, Women's Lives in Biblical Times.

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 203-204 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr059
    • Hilary Marlow

    Jason Radine, The Book of Amos in Emergent Judah (Fohrschungen zum Alten Testament 2 Reihe 45).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 204-205 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr060
    • George J. Brooke

    Germano Galvagno, Sulle vestigia di Giacobbe: Le riletture sacerdotali e post-sacerdotali dell'itinerario del patriarca. (Analecta Biblica 178).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 205 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr061
    • George J. Brooke

    Søren Holst, Verbs and War Scroll: Studies in the Hebrew Verbal System and the Qumran War Scroll (Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 25).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 205-206 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr062
    • George J. Brooke

    David Flusser, Judaism of the Second Temple Period. Volume 2: The Jewish Sages and Their Literature.

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 206 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr063
    • John F. Healey

    John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow (eds), The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism.

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 206-207 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr064
    • George J. Brooke

    Joel M. Lemon and Kent Harold Richards (eds), Method Matters: Essays on the Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David L. Petersen (Resources for Biblical Study 56).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 207-208 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr065
    • George J. Brooke

    Henning Graf Reventlow, History of Biblical Interpretation. Volume 1: From the Old Testament to Origen; Volume 2: From Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages; Volume 3: Renaissance, Reformation, Humanism; Volume 4: From the Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century. (SBL Resources for Biblical Study 50; 61; 62; 63).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 208-209 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr066
    • John F. Healey

    R. Sabbagh, F. Ayash,, J. Balty, F. Briquel Chatonnet and A. Desreumaux, Le martyrion Saint-Jean dans la moyenne vallée de l'Euphrate. Fouilles de la Direction Générale des Antiquités à Nabgha au nord-est de Jarablus (Documents d'archéologie syrienne XIII).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 209 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr067
    • Sebastian Brock

    George Bohas, Un poète syriaque contemporain: Hanna Bahnan.

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 209-210 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr068
    • John F. Healey

    M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia (Variorum Collected Studies Series CS906).

    J Semitic Studies (Spring 2012) 57(1): 210-211 doi:10.1093/jss/fgr069

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