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C.H.J. van Der Merwe
Another Look at the Biblical Hebrew Focus Particle
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 313-332; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp001 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José Martínez Delgado
Lexicographical Arrangement of Masoretic Material
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 333-363; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp002 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Moshe Florentin
The Alternation u / o, Diphthongs, Patah Furtivum and the 3m. s.Pronominal Suffix in Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic Versus Tiberian Hebrew
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 365-380; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp003 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jason Bembry
Plural Based Duals
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 383-388; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp004 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Geoffrey Herman
Note on the Recently Published Discourse on Priesthood (BL ADD. 18295, FF. 137b–140b)
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 389-391; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp005 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maria Bulakh
Nota Genitivi za- in Epigraphic Geez
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 393-419; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp006 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Uri Rubin
On the Arabian Origins of the Qur'an: The Case of Al-Furqan
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 421-433; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp007 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aharon Geva-Kleinberger and Efraim Lev
Language Passivity in the Medical Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Prescriptions of the Cairo Genizah
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 435-458; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp008 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Almog Kasher
The Term Ism in Medieval Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Hyponym of Itself
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 459-474; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp009 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abdulrahman S. Al Salimi
Themes of the Ibadi/Omani Siyar
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 475-514; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp010 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ahmad Al-Jallad
The Polygenesis of the Neo-Arabic Dialects
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 515-536; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp011 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Dickins
Relative Clauses in Sudanese Arabic
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 537-573; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp012 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Eleonora Cussini
PIER GIORGIO BORBONE, ALESSANDRO MENGOZZI and MAURO TOSCO (eds), Loquentes linguis. Studi linguistici e orientali in onore di Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Linguistic and Oriental Studies in Honour of Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Lingvistikaj kaj orientaj studoj honore al Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti.
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 575-577; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp014 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephanie Dalley
KEVIN J. CATHCART (ed.), The Correspondence of Edward Hincks.
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 577-579; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp015 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Taylor
MARTHA ROTH (ed.), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Volume 18 Letter T (Assyrian Dictionary 18). • MARTHA ROTH (ed.), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Volume 19 Letter T [Tet] (Assyrian Dictionary 19).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 580-582; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp016 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roger Tomes
LISA M. WRAY BEAL, The Deuteronomist's Prophet: Narrative Control of Approval and Disapproval in the Story of Jehu (2 Kings 9 and 10) (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 478).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 583-584; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp017 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eryl W. Davies
W.J. HOUSTON, Contending for Justice: Ideologies and Theologies of Social Justice in the Old Testament, Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 428
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 584-585; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp018 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J.C. De Moor
ROBERT P. GORDON (ed.), The God of Israel
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 586-588; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp019 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hannah K. Harrington
JONATHAN D. LAWRENCE, Washing in Water: Trajectories of Ritual Bathing in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature.
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 588-590; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp020 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Philip R. Davies
LESTER L. GRABBE, A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period: Volume 1, Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah (Library of Second Temple Studies 47).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 590-592; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp021 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John S. Kloppenborg
MATT JACKSON-MCCABE (ed.), Jewish Christianity Reconsidered (RethinkingAncient Groups and Texts)
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 592-595; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp022 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ophir Münz-Manor
MICHAEL RAND, Introduction to the Grammar of Hebrew Poetry in Byzantine Palestine (Gorgias Dissertations 22, Language and Linguistics).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 595-597; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp023 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Resianne Fontaine
MAURO ZONTA, Hebrew Scholasticism in the Fifteenth Century: A History and Source Book (Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought 9).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 597-599; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp024 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

GILLIAN GREENBERG
MARTIN ZAMMIT, 'Enbe men Karmo Suryoyo: A Syriac Chrestomathy (Gorgias Handbooks).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 599-601; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp025 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Colin F. Baker
SHEILA S. BLAIR, Islamic Calligraphy.
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 601-602; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp026 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shuruq Naguib
MARTIN WITTINGHAM, Al-Ghazali and the Qur'an: One Book, Many Meanings (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East Series).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 602-605; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp027 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Albrecht Fuess
THOMAS HERZOG, Geschichte und Imaginaire: Entstehung, Überlieferung und Bedeutung der Sirat Baibars in ihrem sozio-politischen Kontext (Diskurse der Arabistik 8).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 606-608; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp028 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver Kahl
ARMIN SCHOPEN, Tinten und Tuschen des arabisch-islamischen Mittelalters: Dokumentation – Analyse – Rekonstruktion (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen: Philologisch-Historische Klasse, Dritte Folge, Band 269).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 608-609; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp029 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Waines
NAWAL NASRALLAH (ed. and trans.), Annals of the Caliph's Kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's Tenth Century Baghdadi Cookbook. English Translation with Introduction and Glossary (Islamic History and Civilisation 70).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 610-611; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp030 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

María Del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacón Díez
HUSAYN IBN ‘ALi DAHFormulaiL ALLAH ABu AL-HASAN, Nuqus lihyaniya min mintaqat al-lhringUla: dirasa tahliliya muqarana.
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 611-613; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp031 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gunvor Mejdell
HELÉNE KAMMENSJÖ, Discourse Connectives in Arabic Lecturing Monologue (Orientalia Africana Gothoburgensia 19).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 614-617; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp032 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Anthony Phillips
F. RACHEL MAGDALENE, On the Scales of Righteousness: Neo-Babylonian Trial Law and the Book of Job (Brown Judaic Studies 348).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 619-620; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp034 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gary Anderson
TRYGGVE N.D. METTINGER, The Eden Narrative: A Literary and Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 2–3.
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 620-621; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp035 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leslie C. Allen
PAUL M. JOYCE, Ezekiel: A Commentary (Library of Hebrew Bible//Old Testament Studies 482).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 621-622; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp036 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerbern S. Oegema
MARK J. BODA, DANIEL K. FALK and RODNEY A. WERLINE (eds), Seeking the Favor of God. Volume 2: The Development of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism (Early Judaism and Its Literature. Volume 22).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 622-623; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp037 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heather A. Mckay
CHRISTIANA DE GROOT and MARION ANN TAYLOR (eds), Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible (Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 623-624; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp038 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elzbieta Lazarewicz-Wyrzykowska
ROLAND BOER (ed.), Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies 63).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 624; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp039 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin O'Kane
MARK RONCACE and PATRICK GRAY (eds), Teaching the Bible Through Popular Cultureand the Arts (Society of Biblical Literature Resources for Biblical Study 53).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 624-625; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp040 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Healey
THOMAS AUDO, Treasure of the Syriac Language: A Dictionary of Classical Syriac (Gorgias Historical Dictionaries 9).
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 625-626; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp041 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Books Received
J Semitic Studies 2009 54: 627-629; doi:10.1093/jss/fgp013 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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