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Trade Review'...a valuable contribution to our knowledge of a poetical figure of speech which by most scholars is neglected or misunderstood.' G. Schreiner, Mnemosyne, 1977. '...has a broader interest than its title suggests as it helps to explain some fundamental difficulties in the understanding of Greek poetry.' H.LL. Hudson-Williams, The Classical Review, 1977.

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Book SynopsisThe student is introduced to the grammar, forms of expression, and idiosyncrasies of Rabbinic Hebrew. The book comprises 32 teaching units, each with a phraseology section, vocabulary, and exercise texts. Historical and morphological aspects are discussed as well as syntax and usage. There is an introductory survey of research into Rabbinic Hebrew and a detailed bibliography.Trade Review'...the most complete description of the language of the Mishnah and other tannaitic works in English since Segal's 1927 grammar…Pérez Fernández has rendered an important service to English-speaking students and scholars. He has made the modern study of Mishnaic Hebrew easily accessible to a wide audience.' Steven E. Fassberg, The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1999.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains all the known Old Syriac inscriptions from Edessa and the area around Osrhoene in Northern Mesopotamia from the first three centuries C.E., the number of which has substantially increased over the last decades. The texts are given in estrangelo script and are accompanied by an extensive philological and historical commentary. The originals are presented in photographs and line drawings. The volume also contains chapters on the script of these inscriptions, on the language and on the history and culture of Edessa. Two appendices offer the texts of three parchments written in Syriac and originating from the same area, and of known but still unpublished inscriptions. The book concludes with indices of words and proper names, which are complement to the Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions (Brill, 1995), and with a full bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the spoken Aramaic dialect of the Jewish communities in the towns of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja in North Eastern Iraq. It also includes a transcription of oral texts recorded in the dialect. The grammar is based on extensive fieldwork carried out among native speakers. It consists of sections on phonology, morphology and syntax. There is also a study of semantic fields in the lexicon of the dialect and full glossaries of lexical items. This Aramaic dialect, which belongs to the North Eastern Neo-Aramaic group, has never been described before. The Jewish communities left Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja in the 1950s and the dialect is now on the verge of extinction.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains 15 contributions presented at a symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira, held in Strasbourg on May 29 and 30, 2006. The papers address linguistic and philological issues. They seek to relate the Hebrew texts of the Hellenistic period to earlier and later traditions. Among the authors are some of the most eminent Hebraists of our period as well as some younger scholars. The papers throw new light on the interpretation of the Qumran Scrolls, of the Apocrypha and of the Hebrew Bible.

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Book SynopsisThe Iguvine Tables (Tabulae Iguvinae) are among the most invaluable documents of Italic linguistics and religion. Seven bronze tablets discovered in 1444 in the Umbrian town of Gubbio (ancient Iguvium), they record the rites and sacral laws of a priestly brotherhood, the Fratres Atiedii, with a degree of detail unparalleled elsewhere in ancient Italy. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines philological and linguistic, as well as ritual analysis, Michael Weiss not only addresses the many interpretive cruces that have puzzled scholars for a century and a half, but also constructs a coherent theory of the entire ritual performance described on Tables III and IV. In addition, Weiss sheds light on many questions of Roman ritual practice and places the Iguvine Tables in their broader Italic and Indo-European contexts.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments ....................................................... ix Abbreviations and Symbols ............................................................. xi Introduction ........................................................................................ 1 Section 1: Anna Karenina and the Tabulae Iguvinae ......... 1 Section 2: Scope and Methods ................................................ 3 Section 3: John B. Wilkins’s New Paradigm ........................ 9 Section 4: Overview of the Present Work ............................ 24 Section 5: A Note on Transcription, Transliteration, and Other Matters ......................................................... 25 I. The Preliminary Events (TI III 1 –10) .................................... 29 Section 1: The Dating Formula .............................................. 30 Section 2: The Preliminary Purifi cation ................................ 60 Section 3: The Events Involving the uhtur .......................... 75 II. The Building of the Kletra (TI III 11–20) ............................. 97 Section 1: The Procession to the Field .................................. 99 Section 2: The kletra ................................................................ 106 Section 3: The Events in the Field ......................................... 114 III. The Arrival at the Grove (TI III 20–30) ................................ 135 Section 1: The Arrival at the Grove ....................................... 136 Section 2: The Placing of Fire ................................................. 147 Section 3: The Consecration ................................................... 156 Section 4: The Benefi ciary Phrases ......................................... 182 Section 5: The Specifying Formula ........................................ 200 Section 6: The Divinities .......................................................... 217 IV. The Off erings (TI III 30–IV 6) ................................................ 245 Section 1: The Offering of the sakre ..................................... 247 Section 2: eruku aruvia feitu ................................................. 271 Section 3: The Offering of the Sheep ..................................... 294 Section 4: The Distribution of the tefra ............................... 314 Section 5: The peřu(m)/perso(m) ........................................... 322 Section 6: The ereçlum ............................................................ 346 viii contents V. The Supplementary Offerings (TI IV 6–27) .......................... 355 Section 1: The supa/sopa Problem ......................................... 358 Section 2: vempersuntres and persuntru ............................ 384 VI. The Concluding Acts (TI IV 27–33) ...................................... 399 Section 1: The erus ................................................................... 400 Section 2: The Second Use of Fire ......................................... 425 Conclusions ........................................................................................ 433 Section 1: Translation of III–IV ............................................. 433 Section 2: Findings ................................................................... 441 References ........................................................................................... 445 Indices .................................................................................................. 479

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Book SynopsisThis study integrates three independent subjects—translation theory, Mandarin aspect, and Greek aspect—for the purpose of formulating a working theory applicable to translating the Bible. The primary objectives are defined in terms of grammatical translation of Greek aspect into Mandarin aspect at the discourse level. A historical overview of the Chinese Bible is provided as a way of introducing major translation issues related to linguistic, conceptual, and logistical challenges. The proposed theory provides the translator with a powerful tool, which is tested in two sample passages from John 18–19 and 1 Corinthians 15. Provided, also, are critical reviews of over sixty Chinese Bible versions, Nestorian, Manichaean, Catholic documents, and a translation written according to the proposed theory.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Tables and Charts Acknowledgement Abbreviations Typographical Conventions CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2: BIBLE IN CHINESE: ITS HISTORY, ISSUES, AND RELATIONS TO MODERN TRANSLATION THEORIES 2.0. Introduction 2.1. History and Major Issues of Chinese Bible Translation 2.2. Translation Studies 2.3. Conclusion CHAPTER 3: VERBAL ASPECTS IN MANDARIN CHINESE AND NEW TESTAMENT GREEK 3.0. Introduction 3.1. General Theories of Aspect 3.2. Verbal Aspect in Mandarin Chinese 3.3. Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek 3.4. Conclusion CHAPTER 4: TRANSLATING THE GREEK PERFECTIVE, IMPERFECTIVE, AND STATIVE ASPECTS IN THE INDICATIVE MOOD INTO MANDARIN 4.0. Introduction 4.1. The Perfective Aspect in the Indicative Mood 4.2. The Imperfective and Stative Aspects 4.3. Conclusion CHAPTER 5: THE NON-INDICATIVE MOODS AND CONDITIONAL CLAUSES 5.0. Introduction 5.1. Imperative 5.2. Subjunctive and Optative Moods 5.3. Infinitives and Participles 5.4. Conditional Clauses 5.5. Conclusion CHAPTER 6: THE PASSION NARRATIVE OF JOHN 18–19 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Chinese Translation of John 18–19 6.3. Conclusion CHAPTER 7: 1 CORINTHIANS 15 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Chinese Translation of 1 Corinthians 15 7.3. Conclusion APPENDICES 1. A Chronology of Chinese Bible Versions 2. Mandarin Translation (FOLEY) of John 18–19 3. Mandarin Translation (FOLEY) of 1 Corinthians 15 BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF SCRIPTURE

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Book SynopsisSEG LVI covers the publications of the year 2006, with occasional additions from previous years that we missed in earlier volumes and from studies published after 2006 but pertaining to material from 2006.

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Book SynopsisI am a Linguist provides a fascinating account of the academic adventures of multi-faceted linguist, R.M.W. (Bob) Dixon. There is fieldwork (and lengthy grammars) on Dyirbal, Yidiñ and other Aboriginal languages of Australia, the Boumaa dialect of Fijian, and Jarawara from the dense jungles of Amazonia. Theoretical studies include adjective classes, ergativity and complement clauses. There are also detective novels, science fiction stories, and pioneering work on blues and gospel discography. Interspersed with the autobiographical narrative are explanations of how linguistics is a scientific discipline, of the development of universities, of diminishing academic standards, and of the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia. The book is written in an easy, accessible style with numerous illustrative anecdotes. It will be an inspiration to young linguists and of interest to the general reader curious about what a scientific linguist does.Trade ReviewPraise for R.W.M. Dixon’s I am a Linguist “As a student of language I cannot commend his stance too highly. I urge younger linguists in particular, to mark all he says about their subject, to empathise with all his triumphs of analysis, and find inspiration in his example.” Peter Matthews, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Cambridge “The author’s descriptions of his field trip experiences are superb and the story of his musical pursuits is downright moving. He has done for ‘threatened music’ the same thing that he has done for threatened languages.” Reader’s report

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Book SynopsisI am a Linguist provides a fascinating account of the academic adventures of multi-faceted linguist, R.M.W. (Bob) Dixon. There is fieldwork (and lengthy grammars) on Dyirbal, Yidiñ and other Aboriginal languages of Australia, the Boumaa dialect of Fijian, and Jarawara from the dense jungles of Amazonia. Theoretical studies include adjective classes, ergativity and complement clauses. There are also detective novels, science fiction stories, and pioneering work on blues and gospel discography. Interspersed with the autobiographical narrative are explanations of how linguistics is a scientific discipline, of the development of universities, of diminishing academic standards, and of the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia. The book is written in an easy, accessible style with numerous illustrative anecdotes. It will be an inspiration to young linguists and of interest to the general reader curious about what a scientific linguist does.Trade ReviewPraise for R.W.M. Dixon’s I am a Linguist “As a student of language I cannot commend his stance too highly. I urge younger linguists in particular, to mark all he says about their subject, to empathise with all his triumphs of analysis, and find inspiration in his example.” Peter Matthews, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Cambridge “The author’s descriptions of his field trip experiences are superb and the story of his musical pursuits is downright moving. He has done for ‘threatened music’ the same thing that he has done for threatened languages.” Reader’s report

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Book SynopsisFrom the eighth to the tenth century A.D., Greek scientific and philosophical works were translated wholesale into Arabic. A Greek and Arabic Lexicon is the first systematic attempt to present in an analytical, rationalized way our knowledge of the vocabulary of these translations. It is an indispensable reference tool for the study and understanding of Arabic scientific and philosophical language and literature, and for the knowledge of the vocabulary of Classical and Middle Greek and the reception and reading of classical Greek works in late antiquity and pre-Photian Byzantine literature.

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Book SynopsisIn Benasní – I Remember: Dene Sųłiné Oral Histories with Morphological Analysis, Josh Holden presents twelve autobiographical narratives about cultural change from Dene Sųłiné elders in an Aboriginal community in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. In ten interviews and two monologues, the speakers recount their 20th century: the rhythms of traditional life, the catastrophe of epidemics and language loss, the dizzying technological changes, their ambivalence over the past and their anxieties for the future. Accompanying the original Dene texts and free translation is an analytical interlinear gloss applying rigorous morphological and semantic principles to the parsing and glossing of words. The innovative interlinearization distinguishes grammar from visible etymologies. The volume contains a morphological sketch to illuminate grammatical issues in the interlinearization.

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook of Jewish Languages is an introduction to the many languages used by Jews throughout history, including Yiddish, Judezmo (Ladino) , and Jewish varieties of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Berber, English, French, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Iranian, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Malayalam, Occitan (Provençal), Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Syriac, Turkic (Karaim and Krymchak), Turkish, and more. Chapters include historical and linguistic descriptions of each language, an overview of primary and secondary literature, and comprehensive bibliographies to aid further research. Many chapters also contain sample texts and images. This book is an unparalleled resource for anyone interested in Jewish languages, and will also be very useful for historical linguists, dialectologists, and scholars and students of minority or endangered languages. This book is also available as paperback version.Trade Review"...aquest llibre és una font única i indispensable que de ben segur esdevindrà un manual de referència, molt útil per als lingüistes, dialectòlegs, acadèmics i estudiants de llengües minoritàries i amenaçades." - Mariona Vernet i Pons, Universitat de BarcelonaTable of ContentsIntroduction Aaron D. Rubin and Lily Kahn 1 Jewish Amharic Anbessa Teferra 2 Judeo-Arabic Geoffrey Khan 3 Judeo-Aramaic Steven E. Fassberg 4 Jewish Berber Joseph Chetrit 5 Jewish English Sarah Bunin Benor 6 Judeo-French 1 Marc Kiwitt and Stephen Dörr 7 Jewish Georgian Reuven Enoch 8 Judeo-Greek Julia G. Krivoruchko 9 Jewish Hungarian Judith Rosenhouse 10 Judeo-Iranian Languages Habib Borjian 11 Judeo-Italian Aaron D. Rubin 12 Judezmo (Ladino) David M. Bunis 13 Karaim and Krymchak Henryk Jankowski 14 Jewish Latin American Spanish Evelyn Dean-Olmsted and Susana Skura 15 Jewish Malayalam Ophira Gamliel 16 Judeo-Occitan (Judeo-Provençal) Adam Strich with George Jochnowitz 17 Judeo-Portuguese Devon Strolovitch 18 Jewish Russian Anna Verschik 19 Judeo-Slavic Brad Sabin Hill 20 Jewish Swedish Patric Joshua Klagsbrun Lebenswerd 21 Judeo-Syriac Siam Bhayro 22 Judeo-Turkish Laurent Mignon 23 Yiddish Lily Kahn Epilogue: Other Jewish Languages, Past and Present Aaron D. Rubin Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Leopard’s Spots, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal discusses the interaction between language, cognition, and culture in an African context with special focus on the cultural construction of meaning through language. Such constructions are constrained by our cognitive system, but leave lots of space for culture-specific interpretations and thereby for tremendous typological diversity between languages. This variation reflects the adaptive nature of human language in the same way that the spots of the leopard reflect selective advantages for its natural habitat. But whereas science has essentially one explanation for the rosettes of the leopard, the non-scientific mind may attach meaning to his or her cultural environment by way of language through a plethora of strategies.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains contributions on the origin of the feminine gender and its relation to the collective in the Indo-European parent language. Particular attention is paid to the question whether original flexion or word formation categories are involved and if the used formative elements have a common origin. Der Band versammelt Beiträge zur Herausbildung des Genus Femininum und seinem Verhältnis zum Kollektivum in der indogermanischen Grundsprache. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird der Frage gewidmet, ob es sich dabei um ursprüngliche Flexions- oder Wortbildungskategorien handelt und die dazu verwendeten formativen Elemente gemeinsamen Ursprungs sind.

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Book SynopsisMorphemes combined with the Arabic noun are clearly described in the literature, but their interpretation can be somewhat nebulous, and a unified scholarly analysis does not as yet exist. This book proposes a new and unified perspective regarding these morphemes, analyzing them as copulae, and the constructions in which they occur as instances of predication. Analyzing morphemes combined with the Arabic noun as copulae explains many of their puzzling properties (rise and loss of declension, proteiform nature of nunation, etc.). Emphasis is placed on data previously marginalized in the description of these morphemes, from pre-Classical Arabic transmitted by Arab Grammarians, Semitic languages that contributed to the emergence of Arabic through language contact, and roughly 30 languages genetically unrelated to Arabic.Trade Review"The topic of the Arabic noun phrase and the properties of its adnominal markers is not one of the most common topics in the literature. Its undertaking by the author should be applauded. The profusion of data used is evident in examples from Old Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Classical Arabic, all the way to Modern Arabic dialects, along with other Semitic languages. The methodology by which he investigates and achieves his results is commended. Comparisons are drawn not only between various dialects but also between competing theories. Shortcomings in the literature, along with the role this work plays, are identified and clearly expressed. All of this is written in sections that build on previous ones and chapters that complement and complete each other...the book makes a compelling argument and fills a need in the literature." – Kariema El Touny, on: Linguist List (April 2014)

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Book SynopsisFor the first time after D. H. Müller’s pioneering studies of the 1900s, a large body of folklore texts in Soqotri becomes available to the Semitological scholarship. The language is spoken by ca. 100.000 people inhabiting the island Soqotra (Gulf of Aden, Yemen). Soqotri is among the most archaic Semitic languages spoken today, whereas the oral literature of the islanders is a mine of deeply original motifs and plots. Texts appear in transcription, English and Arabic translations, and an Arabic-based native script. Philological annotations deal with grammatical, lexical and literary features, as well as realia. The Glossary accumulates all words attested in the volume. The Plates provide a glimpse into the fascinating landscapes of the island and the traditional lifestyle of its inhabitants.Trade ReviewWe have here a magnificent book, a masterpiece of linguistic and cultural research, devoted to one of the lesser-known living Semitic languages. - Antoine Lonnet in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 2017.

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Book SynopsisExploring Indigenous writing and literacies across five continents, this volume celebrates the resilience of Indigenous languages. This book makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the contemporary challenges facing Indigenous writing and literacies and argues that innovative and creative ideas can create a hopeful future for Indigenous writing. Contributions following the themes ‘Sketching the Context’, ‘Enhancing Writing’, and ‘Creating the Future’ are concluded with two reflective chapters evidencing the importance of volume’s thesis for the future of Indigenous writing and literacies. This volume encourages the development of research in this area, specifically inviting the international writing research community to engage with Indigenous peoples and support research on the nexus of Indigenous writing, literacies and education.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 Indigenous Writing and Literacies: Perspectives from Five Continents  Coppélie Cocq and Kirk P.H. Sullivan Part 1 Sketching the Context 2 “I’ve Admired Them for Doing so Well”: Where to Now for Indigenous Languages and Literacies?  Nathan John Albury 3 Indigenous Education: Affirming Indigenous Knowledges and Languages from a Turtle Island Indigenous Scholar’s Perspective: Pikiskēwinan (Let Us Voice)  Laara Fitznor 4 Literacy Proficiency among Students in Aotearoa-New Zealand: Why the Gap between Māori and Pākehā?  Dean Sutherland Part 2 Enhancing Writing 5 Indigenous Storytelling and Language Learning: Digital Media as Vehicle for Cultural Transmission and Language Acquisition  James Barrett and Coppélie Cocq 6 Enhancing Information Accessibility and Digital Literacy for Minorities Using Language Technology—the Example of Sámi and Other National Minority Languages in Sweden  Rickard Domeij, Ola Karlsson, Sjur Moshagen and Trond Trosterud Part 3 Creating the Future 7 Teachers, Textbooks, and Orthographic Choices in Quechua: Bilingual Intercultural Education in Peru and Ecuador  Nancy H. Hornberger and Nicholas Limerick 8 Researching Writing Development to Support Language Maintenance and Revitalization Design and Methodological Challenges  Hanna Outakoski, Eva Lindgren, Asbjørg Westum and Kirk P.H. Sullivan 9 Indigenous Literacy in South Africa: an Argument for Psycholinguistically Responsive Teaching  Mark de Vos Part 4 Reflections 10 A Coda and a Preface  Shelley Stagg Peterson 11 Education is Not Sufficient—Exploring Ways to Support and Research Indigenous Writing and Literacies  Kirk P.H. Sullivan, Virginia Langum and Coppélie Cocq Index

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Book SynopsisModeling Biblical Language presents articles with some of the latest scholarship applying linguistic theory to the study of the Christian Bible. The contributors are all associated with the McMaster Divinity College Linguistic Circle, a collegial forum for presenting working papers in modern linguistics (especially Systemic Functional Linguistics) and biblical studies. The papers address a range of topics in linguistic theory and the Hebrew and Greek languages. Topics include linguistic model building, temporality and verbal aspect, Greek lexical semantics and Hebrew-Greek translation, appraisal and evaluation theory, metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and Greek clausal structure. These various areas of linguistic exploration contribute generally to the interpretation and analysis of the Old and New Testaments, as well as to linguistic theory proper.Trade Review"This volume informs readership of some recent developments in linguistics and demonstrates how these developments may provide a more nuanced understanding of biblical texts. The essays are helpful in identifying particular linguistic patterns, discourses, and structures that can be used as supportive exegetical tools." Svetlana Khobnya, Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2017Table of ContentsModeling Biblical Language: An Introduction, Stanley E. Porter, Gregory P. Fewster, and Christopher D. Land I. Modeling Language 1. Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Greek Language: The Need for Further Modeling, Stanley E. Porter 2. Aspect and Aktionsart Once Again, Francis G. H. Pang 3. Relative Temporal Ordering: Discourse Temporality in the Greek of the New Testament, Jeffrey Reber II. Modeling the Languages of the Hebrew Bible 4. Appraisal Theory and the Ideology of Judges 6, Mary L. Conway 5. Sam(p)son’s Advent: Comparative Discourse Analysis of Judges 13 in Hebrew and Greek, Anthony Pyles 6. Yahweh as Shepherd-King in Ezekiel 34: A Linguistic-Literary Analysis of Metaphors of Shepherding, Beth M. Stovell II. Modeling the Language of the Greek New Testament 7. Jesus before Pilate: A Discourse Analysis of John 18:33–38, Christopher D. Land 8. Towards a Model of Functional Monosemy: A Study of Creation Language in Romans, Gregory P. Fewster 9. An Intertextual Discourse Analysis of Romans 9:30–10:13, Xiaxia E. Xue 10. Reconsidering the Meaning and Translation of Πνευματικός and Πνεῦμα in the Discourse Context of 1 Corinthians 12–14, Hughson T. Ong 11. Metaphor Analysis with Some Help from Corpus Linguistics: Contextualizing ‘Root’ Metaphors in Colossians and Ephesians, Gregory P. Fewster 12. Language as Negotiation: A Functional Linguistic Model for Ideological Criticism with Application to James 2:1–13, Zachary K. Dawson 13. Meaning in Bulk: The Greek Clause Complex and 1 Peter 1:3–12, Benjamin B. Hunt

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Book SynopsisMultimodality in Higher Education theorizes writing practices and pedagogy from a multimodal perspective. It looks at the theoretical and methodological uptake of multimodal approaches in a range of domains in Higher Education, including art and design, architecture, composition studies, science, management accounting and engineering. Changes in the communication landscape have engendered an increasing recognition of the different semiotic dimensions of representation. Student assignments require increasingly complex multimodal competencies and Higher Education needs to be equipped to students with these texts. Multimodality in Higher Education explores the changing communication landscapes in Higher Education in terms of spaces and texts, as well as new processes of production and creativity in the new media.

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Book SynopsisTransitions in Writing addresses the experiences of writers as they move between contexts of writing and juggle new and different demands. Spelman Miller and Stevenson bring together research by scholars in a range of settings across the world who approach transition from different standpoints. Transition is often conceived of as a change in setting, coinciding with physical or temporal relocation, such as between stages of an educational or professional career. However, writers also manage more local, micro-level transitions as they move between genres, registers and rhetorical moves to meet the demands of the task. The combination of both macro- and micro-level perspectives on transition offers a novel, broad conception of the types of change a writer encounters, and illustrates a range of methodological approaches appropriate to exploring such transitions.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Transitions in Writing: An Introduction  Kristyan Spelman Miller and Marie Stevenson 1 Transition in Students’ Reading and Writing: The Case of A-Levels to University in the UK  Sally Baker 2 Transitions into Post-Graduate Study: Developing Writers at a British University  Clare Furneaux 3 Crossing the Divide between Writing Cultures  Ellen Krogh 4 Facilitating Non-Native English Speaker Students’ Transition to Writing for the Disciplines: A Study of Learning Transfer  Veronica Ong 5 “They Don’t Want My Opinion Do They?”: Authorial Identity and Transitions into and within Higher Education  Ann Everitt-Reynolds, Moira Maguire and Brid Delahunt 6 Transitioning to Academic Success: Textual Change and Reflexivity in the Writing of International Postgraduate Students  Margaret Kettle and Mary Ryan 7 Writing and Speaking: Children Moving between Modalities  Victoria Johansson, Viktoria Åkerlund and Birgitta Sahlén 8 Crossing the Line: Trading Across Semiotic Systems in the Visual and Performing Arts  Bronwyn James 9 Reflective Writing: A Transitional Space between Theory and Practice  Marie Stevenson, Bronwyn James, Arlene Harvey, Minkang Kim and Eszter Szenes Index

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume investigates com-munity in postcolonial language situations, texts, and media. In actual and imagined communities, membership assumes shared features – values, linguistic codes, geographical origin, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, professional interests and practices. How is membership in such communities constructed, manifested, tested or contested? What new forms have emerged in the wake of globalization, translocation, and digital media? Contributions in linguistic, literary, and cultural studies explore the role of communication, narratives, memory, and trauma in processes of (un)belonging. One section treats communication and the speech community. Here, linguistic contribu-tions investigate the concept of the native speaker in World Englishes, in socio-cultural communities identified by styles of verbal duelling, in diaspora communities, physical and digital, where identification with formerly stigmatized linguistic codes acquires new currency. Divisions and alignments in digital communities are at stake in postcolonial African countries like Cameroon where identification with ex-colonizer and ex-colonized is a hot issue. Finally, discourse communities also exist in such traditional media as newspapers (e.g., the Indian tabloid in English). In a section devoted to narrative and narration, the focus is on literary perspectives – post-colonial memory, trauma, and identity in Caribbean literary works by David Chariandy and Pauline Melville and in Australian Aboriginal fiction; narratives of banditry in colonial India; xenophobia and urban space in South Africa; human–animal community crossings and anthropomorphism in Life of Pi. A third section, on linguistic crossings in transnational music styles in global and Ugandan music industries, examines language, style, and belonging in music cultures. The volume closes with a controversial debate on the agendas of academic/non-academic and postcolonial/Western communities with regard to homophobia in Jamaican dancehall culture. CONTRIBUTORS Eric A. Anchimbe, Susan Arndt, Roman Bartosch, Carolyn Cooper, Daria Dayter, Dagmar Deuber, Tobias Döring, Stephanie Hackert, Caroline Koegler, Stephan Laqué, Andrea Moll, Susanne Mühleisen, Jochen Petzold, Katja Sarkowsky, Britta Schneider, Anne Schröder, Jude Ssempuuma, Robert JC YoungTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures I: ON COMMUNITY Introduction: On Community Formation, Manifestation, and Contestation: Acts of Membership and Exclusion  SUSANNE MÜHLEISEN Community and the Common  ROBERT JC YOUNG II: COMMUNICATION AND THE SPEECH COMMUNITY The Native Speaker in World Englishes: A Historical Perspective  STEPHANIE HACKERT Orality and Literacy in Verbal Duelling: Playing the Dozens in the Twenty-First Century  DARIA DAYTER Prestige Change in Contact Varieties of English in Urban Diaspora Communities  SUSANNE MÜHLEISEN & ANNE SCHRÖDER Diasporic Cyber-Jamaican: Stylized Dialect of an Imagined Community  ANDREA MOLL ’Africa is not a Game’: Constructions of Ex-Colonized and Ex-Colonizer Entities Online  ERIC A. ANCHIMBE The Indian Tabloid in English: What Type of Community Does It Speak To, and How?  DAGMAR DEUBER III: NARRATING ACROSS THE NATION Thuggee: Thornton, Taylor and the Literature of Banditry in Colonial India  TOBIAS DÖRING Haunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant  KATJA SARKOWSKY Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the ‘New’ South Africa  JOCHEN PETZOLD Orientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimara’s Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence  STEPHAN LAQUÉ A ‘furry subjunctive case’ of Empathy: Human–Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary Anthropomorphism  ROMAN BARTOSCH Migration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville’s Short Story “Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water”  SUSAN ARNDT IV: LANGUAGE,STYLE, AND BELONGING INMUSIC CULTURES Community and Language in Transnational Music Styles: Symbolic Meanings of Spanish in Salsa and Reggaetón  BRITTA SCHNEIDER Language Crossings in Transnational Music Cultures: Bottom-Up Promotion of Kiswahili Through the Music Industry in Uganda  JUDE SSEMPUUMA V: COUNTER-ARGUMENT Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation  CAROLYN COOPER At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper’s Keynote Lecture “Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation”  CAROLINE KOEGLER Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe beginning of the Greek revival in the West is generally attributed to the teaching of the Byzantine scholar Manuel Chrysoloras in Florence between 1397 and 1400. Causes, aspects, and consequences of this important cultural phenomenon still need to be analyzed in depth. The essays collected in this volume examine the development of the study of Greek from the fifteenth to the early sixteenth century, reconstructing its spread and impact on early modern literatures, philosophy, and visual arts. An analysis of the methods and tools used to teach and learn Greek sheds light on the complex cultural relationships between Byzantium and the West and enlarges the traditional picture of the Greek revival in early modern Europe. Contributors are: Lilia Campana, Federica Ciccolella, Mariarosa Cortesi, Francesco G. Giannachi, Fevronia Nousia, Kalle Lundahl, Erika Nuti, Denis Robichaud, Antonio Rollo, Luigi Silvano, David Speranzi, and Paola Tomé.Trade Review“For anyone interested in the teaching of Greek in Renaissance Italy, this volume offers a great deal of good new scholarship.” - Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto, emeritus, in: Renaissance Quarterly, 71:2 (Summer 2018), pp. 714-715 “L’esplorazione dei manoscritti prodotti e circolanti in tale cerchia, attualmente conservati in massima parte nel fondo Barocci della Bodleian Library, consente a C. di verificare, tra l’altro, come la pratica didattica del greco in ambito cretese, per quanto aperta alla ricezione di alcune delle novità emerse in Occidente, persistesse nell’alveo della tradizione grammaticale bizantina. Merita, infine, una menzione la bibliografia assai abbondante ed aggiornata raccolta a conclusione del volume, che non mancherà di rappresentare un validissimo sussidio per le ricerche future.” - Marco Barbero, in: Medioevo greco 18 (2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction Editors’ Note 1. The Transmission and Reception of Manuel Moschopulos’ Schedography in the West Fevronia Nousia 2. Study Tools in the Humanist Greek School: Preliminary Observations on Greek-Latin Lexica Antonio Rollo 3. Greek at the School of Vittorino da Feltre Mariarosa Cortesi 4. Greek Studies in Giovanni Tortelli’s Orthographia: A World in Transition Paola Tomè 5. Working with Plotinus: A Study of Marsilio Ficino’s Textual and Divinatory Philology Denis J.-J. Robichaud 6. Praeclara librorum suppellectilis: Cretan Manuscripts in Pietro da Portico’s Library David Speranzi 7. Learning Greek in the Land of Otranto: Some Remarks on Sergio Stiso of Zollino and His School Francesco G. Giannachi 8. Antonio Allegri da Correggio: The Greek Inscription in the Hermitage Portrait Kalle O. Lundahl 9. Teaching Greek in Renaissance Rome: Basil Chalcondyles and His Courses on the Odyssey Luigi Silvano 10. Vettor Fausto (1490-1546), Professor of Greek at the School of Saint Mark Lilia Campana 11. Franciscus Bovius Ferrarensis and Johannes Sagomalas Naupliensis: Teaching Elementary Greek in the Mid-Sixteenth Century Erika Nuti 12. Greek in Venetian Crete: Grammars and Schoolbooks from the Library of Francesco Barocci Federica Ciccolella Bibliography Index of Manuscripts and Archival Materials Index of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisThe Epic of Sumanguru Kante contains the Bamana text and English translation of griot Abdoulaye Sako’s oral narrative of the life of Sumanguru, recorded in 1997 in Koulikoro (Mali), together with explanatory notes, a scholarly introduction, and sections on the Bamana language and musical accompaniment. Sumanguru is a familiar figure within Manding epic oral traditions about ancient Mali. But while these narratives generally focus on Sunjata Keita, Sako’s oral poem is rare in according Sumanguru the central role. In so doing he includes hitherto undocumented episodes relating to Sumanguru’s life and role as the ruler of Soso, the little known state said to have flourished in the western Sudan between the fall of ancient Ghana and rise of ancient Mali.Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction  Stephen P.D. Bulman A Note on the Language and Transcription of the Bamana Text  Valentin F. Vydrine Glossary of Manding Words Transcriptions of the Major Musical Themes That Abdulaye Sako Played on the ngɔ̀ni to Accompany His Performance of the Epic of Sumanguru  Sam Dickey Summary of Contents of the Epic of Sumanguru Banama Text and English Translation of the Epic of Sumanguru by Abdulaye Sako  Valentin F. Vydrine, Amadou Togo and Stephen P.D. Bulman Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe papers in this volume study the relationship between language use and the concept of the “tourist gaze” through a range of communicative practices from different cultures and languages. From a pragmatic perspective, the authors investigate how language constantly adapts to contextual constraints which affect tourism discourse as a strategic meaning-making process that turns insignificant places into desirable tourist destinations. The case studies draw on both, in situ interactions with visitors, such as guided tours and counter information, old and new mediatized genres, i.e. guide books, travelogues, print advertising as well as TV-commercials, service web-sites and apps. Despite the diversity of data, one of the common findings in the volume is that staging the sensory ‘lived’ tourist experience is the lynchpin of all communicative practices. Hence, the use of tourism language reveals itself as the mirror of how ‘people on the move’ continuously enact as ‘tourists’ and ‘places’ are constructed as must-see ‘sights’.

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Book SynopsisAtong Texts by Seino van Breugel consists of a collection of 37 glossed, annotated and translated narratives in the Atong language (Tibeto-Burman) of Meghalaya, India, presented in phonemic standard orthography. This testimony of cultural and linguistic heritage of the Atongs, who are members of the Garo Tribe, complements the author’s Grammar of Atong, also published by Brill. Each text is preceded by a systematic literary analysis. The photos in the appendix provide a visual impression of the environment in which the stories are told. This book is of great value to Tibeto-Burmanists, general linguists, discourse analysts and everyone interested in the languages, history and folklore of Northeast-India in general, and Meghalaya in particular.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables, Maps and Photos Abbreviations and Symbols 1 Introduction 2 Methodology of Text Collection 3 Atong Orthography in Relation to Its Phonology and Pronunciation  3.1 Some Important Remarks about the Use of Some Letters in the Orthography  3.2 Allohpony  3.3 The Pronunciation of Double Vowels and Double Consonants  3.4 Glottalisation  3.5 The Phonological Word and Its Stress 4 The Presentation of the Texts 5 Glossing Texts 1 Dabatwari 2 Badri Rongdyng Ha•waimi Ortho 3 Ajot 4 Alsia Raja 5 Pheru aro Magachak 6 Joramigymyn 7 Singho aro Pheru 8 Garo Ha•byri 9 Boba aro Gore 10 Jada 11 Amak aro rukpek 12 Ha•ba 13 Ram nemcha 14 Khem 15 Wai khuruta 16 Phylgym aro Sa•gyrai 17 Nai•nokholthanggaba aro Kynokholthanggaba 18 Do•renggo Wa•dachong 19 Sijyw Durakhal 20 Mongma aro Taw•reksyrup 21 Naweng aro Kumiri 22 Haratgaba Bil 23 Ketketa Bura 24 Pheru aro Gorial 25 Paranggaba Sa•banthai 26 Ja•bek Rymna 27 Amak aro Pheru 28 Thengthonmynggymyn 29 Amakmu Saphaw 30 Kyrynggaba Matsa 31 Amak aro Khu•sum 32 Amak aro Chengchengmachok 33 Magachak aro Rukwak 34 Abu Chakkhen 35 Te•ew Re•enggaba Gawi 36 Nokchi Ang Dyngdang Mu•chiba 37 Bandimynggymyn Appendix of Photos References Index

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Book SynopsisRobert L. Rankin was a seminal figure in late 20th and early 21st centuries in the field of Siouan linguistics. His knowledge, like the papers he produced, was voluminous. We have gathered here a representation of his work that spans over thirty years. The papers presented here focus on both the languages Rankin studied in depth (Quapaw, Kansa, Biloxi, Ofo, and Tutelo) and comparative historical work on the Siouan language family in general. While many of the papers included have been previously published, one third of them have never before been made public including a grammatical sketch and dictionary of Ofo and his final paper on the place of Mandan in the larger Siouan family.

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Book SynopsisIn The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān, Nasser studies the transmission and reception of the Qurʾānic text and its variant readings through the work of Ibn Mujāhid (d. 324/936), the founder of the system of the Seven Eponymous Readings of the Qurʾān. The overarching project aims to track and study the scrupulous revisions the Qurʾān underwent, in its recited, oral form, through the 1,400-year journey towards a final, static, and systematized text. For the very first time, the book offers a complete and detailed documentation of all the variant readings of the Qurʾān as recorded by Ibn Mujāhid. A comprehensive audio recording accompanies the book, with more than 3,500 audio files of Qurʾānic recitations of variant readings.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Chapter 1: Preliminaries. The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān Chapter 2: Survival of the fittest 2.1: The Irregular readings of the Canonical Readings 2.2: Sixty-Six Problematic Transmissions in Ibn Mujāhid’s Kitāb al-Sabʿa Chapter 3: Ḥadīth and Qurʾān rijāl criticism Chapter 4: Orality revisited. The Written Transmission of Qirāʾāt 4.1: The Regional Codices 4.2: Early different forms of Qirāʾāt transmission Chapter 5: The Nature of the Qurʾānic variants 5.1: Standardization of Arabic and the Qurʾānic text through the principles of Qurʾānic recitation (uṣūl al-Qirāʾa) 5.2: The individual variants (farsh) of the Qurʾān Conclusion and future research Bibliography

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Book SynopsisResearch that focuses on holograph, autograph and authorial manuscripts in Arabic handwritten script has been casual, although these manuscripts raise important and varied questions. In this volume nine contributions and case studies are gathered that address theoretical issues and convey different, disruptive perspectives. A particularly important subject of this book is the identification of an author’s handwriting.Trade Review“This is an important volume and a giant step forward in the research on Arabic manuscripts.” Jan Just Witkam, Leiden University Institute of Area Studies (lias), Leiden in: Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 12, Issue 2 (April 2022).Table of ContentsPreface List of Authors' Handwritings Appearing on the Cover Image List of Figures List of Diagrams and Tables List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction 2 Comment reconnaître un autographe parmi les papyrus littéraires grecs? L’ exemple du P. Oxy. 74.4970  Marie-Hélène Marganne 3 Arabic Holographs: Characteristics and Terminology  Adam Gacek 4 “Bi-khaṭṭ muʾallifihi” … Vraiment?! L’ apport de l’ analyse judiciaire d’ écritures à l’ étude des manuscrits arabes  Élise Franssen 5 Maqriziana XV: The Characteristics of al-Maqrīzī’s Handwriting  Frédéric Bauden 6 The Art of Copying: Mamlūk Manuscript Culture in Theory and Practice  Elias Muhanna 7 The Holograph Notebooks of Akmal al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Mufliḥ (d. 1011/1603)  Kristina Richardson 8 Al-ʿAynī’s Working Method for His Chronicles: Analysis of His Autographical Manuscripts  Nobutaka Nakamachi 9 Textual Criticism on of the Manuscripts of Ibn Khaldūn’s Autobiographical Manuscripts  Retsu Hashizume 10 Les safīnas yéménites  Julien Dufour and Anne Regourd List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Names Index of Places Index of Technical Terms

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Book SynopsisIn Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading, Professor Kin Bunkyō surveys the history of reading technologies referred to as kundoku 訓讀 in Japanese, hundok in Korean and xundu in Mandarin. Rendered by the translators as ‘vernacular reading’, these technologies were used to read Literary Sinitic through and into a wide variety of vernacular languages across diverse premodern East Asian civilizations and literary cultures. The book’s editor, Ross King, prefaces the translation with an essay comparing East Asian traditions of ‘vernacular reading’ with typologically similar reading technologies in the Ancient Near East and calls for a shift in research focus from writing to reading, and from ‘heterography’ to ‘heterolexia’. Translators are Marjorie Burge, Mina Hattori, Ross King, Alexey Lushchenko, and Si Nae Park.Table of ContentsEditors’ Preface  Vernacular Reading in the Sinographic Cosmopolis and Beyond Author’s Preface to the English Edition Acknowledgements List of Figures Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction  1 Buying Tickets at the Station  2 A Ticket Gate  3 Sinographic Expressions in East Asia  4 “Vernacular Reading”: The Kundoku Phenomenon in the Sinographic Cultural Sphere 1 Reading Literary Sinitic—kundoku “Vernacular Reading” in Japan  1 What Is Kundoku?  2 Kundoku and Chinese Translations of Buddhist Sutras  3 The Ideological Context of kundoku  4 The Initial Stage of Kundoku: From the Early Nara to the Mid-Heian Periods  5 Kundoku in the Period of Maturity: From the Mid-Heian to Insei Periods (ca. 10th to 12th Centuries CE)  6 New Developments in Kundoku: From the Kamakura to Early Modern Periods  7 Kundoku since the Meiji Period 2 Vernacular Reading in East Asia  1 Hundok on the Korean Peninsula  2 Hundok in Silla and Kokunten in Japan  3 Ideological Background of hundok on the Korean Peninsula  4 Vernacular Reading Phenomena on the Periphery of China  5 Vernacular Reading Phenomena in China 3 Writing in Literary Sinitic: The Diverse World of Literary Sinitic in East Asia  1 The World of Poetry in East Asia  2 The Diversity of Literary Sinitic 4 Concluding Thoughts: The East Asian Literary Sinitic Cultural Sphere  1 A Diverse Range of Ways to Pronounce Sinographs  2 A Diverse Range of Ways to Read Literary Sinitic  3 A Diverse Range of Literary Sinitic Inscriptional Styles  4 Literary Sinitic Inscriptional Style and Social Class  5 East Asian Literary Sinitic Cultural Sphere 5 Epilogue Bibliography Index of Named Individuals Index of Texts Cited Index and Glossary of Terms

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Book SynopsisIn History of the Pauline Corpus in Texts, Transmissions, and Trajectories , Chris S. Stevens examines the Greek manuscripts of the Pauline texts from P46 to Claromontanus. Previous research is often hindered by the lack of a systematic analysis and an indelicate linguistic methodology. This book offers an entirely new analysis of the early life of the Pauline corpus. Departing from traditional approaches, this text-critical work is the first to use Systemic Functional Linguistics, which enables both the comparison and ranking of textual differences across multiple manuscripts. Furthermore, the analysis is synchronically oriented, so it is non-evaluative. The results indicate a highly uniform textual transmission during the early centuries. The systematic analysis challenges previous research regarding text types, Christological scribal alterations, and textual trajectories.Trade Review“The book makes a novel contribution to the discussion by providing a new vantage point from which to compare texts and a new approach for delineating variants.” – Garrick V. Allen, University of Glasgow, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Charts Abbreviations Introduction 1 New Testament Textual Criticism: History and Highlights  1 History of Textual Criticism  2 Textual Criticism during the Early Church  3 Textual Criticism after the Printing Press  4 Conclusion  Excursus: Original Text Form and the Goal of Textual Criticism 2 Contemporary Textual Criticism Methods for New Testament Studies  1 Majority Text  2 Single Text Theory  3 Byzantine Text Form  4 Eclecticism: Reasoned and Thoroughgoing  5 Stemmatics  6 Coherence-Based Genealogical Method  7 Conclusion of History and Methods 3 Method for Direct Evaluation of Textual Uniformity  1 Comparative Methods  2 Definition of a Unit of Variation  3 New Method of Textual Comparison  4 Procedure for the Comparison of Manuscripts: Counting and Numerical Majority 4 Summarized Results of the Textual Examination  1 Romans Summary  2 1 Corinthians Summary  3 2 Corinthians Summary  4 Galatians Summary  5 Ephesians Summary  6 Philippians Summary  7 Colossians Summary  8 1 Thessalonians Summary  9 2 Thessalonians Summary  10 1 Timothy Summary  11 2 Timothy Summary  12 Titus Summary  13 Philemon Summary  14 Conclusion 5 Textual Features Explored and Weighed  1 Surprising Scribal Skill  2 Spelling  3 Scribal Choices and Inconsistencies  4 Brevior Lectio vs. Verbose Additions  5 General Patterns  6 Summary of Highlighted Features  7 Sensible Results out of Nonsense  8 Weighted Conclusion  9 Conclusion 6 Application to Contemporary Research  1 Text Types and Textual Assessment  2 Textual Uniformity  3 Textual Agreement Rates of Other Ancient Texts  4 Textual Agreement Rates in Other Projects  5 P46 and Textual Agreement  6 Summary  7 The Aland’s Figures of Textual Agreement  8 Conclusion 7 Narrative Textual Criticism: Textual Variation Used for Sociohistorical Narratives  1 Background and Development of Narrative Textual Criticism  2 Benefits and Weaknesses of NTC  3 NTC Approach Popularized by Bart Ehrman  4 Ehrman versus the Evidence  5 Summary  6 Conclusion 8 Source and History of the Pauline Corpus  1 Before AD 200  2 Historical Consistency Rather Than Diversity Followed by Recension  3 When Does the Pauline Corpus Originate? Theories of Publication  4 Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1: Textual Analysis of the Pauline Corpus  1 Pauline Corpus: Thirteen Letters  2 Romans: Commentary and Results  3 1 Corinthians: Textual Commentary and Results  4 2 Corinthians: Textual Commentary and Results  5 Galatians: Commentary and Results  6 Ephesians: Commentary and Results  7 Philippians: Commentary and Results  8 Colossians: Commentary and Results  9 1 Thessalonians: Commentary and Results  10 2 Thessalonians: Commentary and Results  11 1 Timothy: Commentary and Results  12 2 Timothy: Commentary and Results  13 Titus: Commentary and Results  14 Philemon: Commentary and Results  15 Statistical Conclusions of the Textual Comparison Appendix 2: Examination of Textual Differences for Christological Tendencies  1 Orthodox Base Position  2 Method of Christological Evaluation  3 Textual Differences Possibly Impacting Christology  4 Citations and Comments by Ehrman  5 Conclusion of Christology Data  6 Key Findings  7 Conclusion Bibliography Modern Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisMany works on linguistic typology deal in some detail with one or more particular grammatical topics without clearly demonstrating how these relate to other categories or construction types. The Essence of Linguistic Analysis by R. M. W. Dixon presents a framework which connects individual topics in a cogent and coherent way, showing their dependencies and locating each in its place within the overall tapestry of a language. A clear distinction is made between semantic roles and syntactic functions. And it is held that the basic constituents of a language are lexical elements. Grammatical items serve to link together lexical units. At every level of analysis, the central units are lexical with grammar providing ancillary indicators.Trade Review"To sum up, as a condensational up-to-date volume, Essence is indeed a mandatory reading for scholars in the field of linguistic typology since it manages to unveil the nature of human language within the wider theoretical framework." ~ Yifan Liu and Sihong Zhang, Hefei University of Technology in Folia Linguistica, (2023, aop)Table of ContentsContents Preface VII Acknowledgements IX Abbreviations X Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Preliminaries  2 The Basic Scheme  3 Semantic Types and Semantic Roles  4 Peripheral Arguments  5 Clauses within Phrases and Clauses within Clauses  6 Free and Bound Pronouns  7 Head of a Verb Phrase  8 Copula Clauses and Verbless Clauses  9 Types of Intransitive Subject, S  10 The Sentence and Above  Commentary and Notes  Preliminary Note  Notes to Sections  References  Index  Books by R. M. W. Dixon

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture, presenting a view from the Himalayas. The phylogeny of language families, the chronology of branching of linguistic family trees and the historical and modern geographical distribution of language communities inform us about the spread of languages and linguistic phyla. The global distribution and the chronology of spread of Y chromosomal haplogroups appears closely correlated with the spread of language families. New findings on ancient DNA have greatly enhanced our understanding of the prehistory and provenance of our biological ancestors. The archaeological study of past material cultures provides yet a third independent window onto the complex prehistory of our species.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Part 1 Historical Contexts in Which We Live 1 Prehistory and the Present Crossing National and Mythical Boundaries  1 European Identities  2 A Tablet of Unusual Composition  3 A Pieterskerk Skull Migrates to Switzerland  4 Migration and Population Replacement in Prehistoric Europe 2 Evolving Scientific Views of Our Origins As Opposed to Political Projections upon the Prehistoric Past  1 Recent History Can Distort Our Perception of Prehistory  2 Indigenism in India  3 The Aryan Invasion and the Ancient Indian Fatherland  4 Colonial Expansion out of India and into India  5 The Zeal of Jihād and Reconquista Are Brought to the Subcontinent  6 The Continuing Saga of Colonialism 3 A Fascination with Phenotypical Diversity The Manifold Ways in Which We Humans Can Look Beautiful  1 The Rise of Race  2 Enchanted by Human Phenotypical Diversity  3 The Slippery Slope from Physical Anthropology to Racism  4 A Molecular Understanding of Heredity and the Fallacy of Race  5 The Tenacity of Obsolete Labels and the Rise of New Fictions  6 Endogamy and Exclusion vs. Conquest and Élite Dominance  7 Decolonising East Asian Prehistory 4 Chinoiserie Old and New Language Typology with and without Racial Prejudice  1 Spellbound by Language Typology  2 Racist Linguistic Typology vs. Linguistic Relativity  3 Ex Occidente Lux  4 The Creoloid Origins of Chinese  5 Asian Negrito Populations and the Birth of Lexicostatistics  6 Lexicostatistics under the Novel Guise of ‘Phylolinguistics’ Part 2 Episodes of Our Shared Prehistory 5 Beyond the Linguistic Event Horizon The sub-Himalayan Hill Tracts and Adjacent Plains Serve as a Conduit  1 The Rapacious Species  2 The Colonisation of Eurasia  3 Mixing with the Neighbours  4 Walking the Dogs Back to Africa  5 Long Lost Cousins  6 Eastward through the Clement Climatic Corridor  7 Yet Another Wave Washes through the Subcontinent  8 Human Paternal Lineages as Molecular Tracers  9 Paternal Starburst in the Subcontinent  10 Subsequent South Asian Y-Chromosomal Starbursts 6 Holocene Dispersals Genetic Correlates of Major Linguistic Phyla in Eastern Eurasia  1 From the Himalayan Heartland to Hyperborea  2 Austro-Tai Comprises Austronesian and Kradai  3 Older Layers of Peopling Shine through  4 Austroasiatic and para-Austroasiatic  5 Trans-Himalayan and Yangtzean 7 From India to Europe and Back From the Holocene to the Beginnings of Recorded History  1 Dene-Kusunda and beyond Beringia  2 Burushaski and Indo-European  3 The Discovery of the Indus Civilisation  4 The Dravidians and the Indus Civilisation  5 Nihali and Vedda  6 Crossing the Pacific with Coconuts and Sweet Potatoes  7 The Discovery of America  8 Meanderings in the Pacific and Indian Oceans  9 Ancient Culture on the Beautiful Maldives  10 As Bassas de Chagas  11 Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this biography of Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) Asaph Ben-Tov offers a study of a now forgotten yet unusually well documented seventeenth-century orientalist. Gerhard, the son of the famous Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard, is not a towering figure but rather a fascinating representative of the academic culture of his day, especially of seventeenth-century oriental studies. His extant Nachlassallows a close scrutiny of the life and work of an early modern scholar, focussing on his training, travels, the ambitious Harmonia linguarum orientalium (1647) and other works, and the interests he fostered as a professor of history and theology in Jena. It aims to shed light on the broad and understudied field of oriental studies in seventeenth-century Germany.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: A Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist: Its Sources and Significance for Understanding Oriental Studies in Early Modern Germany 1 The Making of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist  1 First Academic Appearances  2 Studying Oriental Languages  3 Studying Ethiopic in Jena  4 Commonplace Learning 2 Early Endeavours  1 His Father’s Editor  2 Inherited Enemies: The Case of Barthold Nihus  3 History  4 Biblical Scholarship and Antiquarianism  5 The Syriac Bible 3 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium  1 Gerhard and the Tradition of Harmonic Linguistics  2 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium (1647)  3 Some Immediate Reactions to the Harmonia  4 Fata libelli 4 Travels in the Republic of Letters  1 Altdorf, Nuremberg, and Regensburg  2 Iter ad mare balticum – A Tour of War-Ravaged Northern Germany (1642)  3 The Grand Tour: Itinerarium Belgicum (1650–1651) 5 Professor of History (1652–1655)  1 Cyrus, Athens, Alexander the Great, and the Mirror of Princes 6 Umbra in luce: A Fragmented World History of Religion  1 Professor of Theology  2 The Armenian, Muscovite, Coptic, and Maronite Churches  3 Armenia (1665)  4 The Muscovites (1665)  5 The Copts (1666) and the Maronites (1668)  6 Beyond Church History  7 Islam  8 Umbra in luce (1667)  9 An Unexpected Prelude: Justinian von Weltz (1621–1668?) and His Mission to the Heathens  10 Shadow, Light, and Penumbra  11 Christian Hoffmann’s Umbra in luce (1667) A Hieroglyphic Farewell  and Concluding Comments Appendix: A Selection of Letters to Gerhard from Hiob Ludolf and Johann Zechendorff in the Gerhardina Collection Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArabs and Arabists contains nineteen selected articles by Alastair Hamilton on the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period. The first essays are on Arabs who visited Europe and gave instruction to Western Arabists, and on Europeans who either visited the Arab (or the Ottoman) world in search of manuscripts and information or who, like Franciscus Raphelengius, Isaac Casaubon and Adriaen Reland, studied it at a distance and remained in the West. These are followed by a section on the actual study of the Arabic language in Europe, and above all the creation of the first Arabic-Latin dictionaries, and another on the European study of Islam and Western translations of the Qur’an.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Part 1: Arabs and Arabists 1 An Egyptian Traveller in the Republic of Letters  Josephus Barbatus or Abudacnus the Copt 2 Michel d’Asquier, Imperial Interpreter and Bibliophile 3 Isaac Casaubon the Arabist  ‘Video Longum Esse Iter’  1 The Apprentice  2 The Method  3 The Centre of a Circle  4 The Arabist  5 Conclusion 4 ‘To Divest the East of All Its Manuscripts and All Its Rarities’  The Unfortunate Embassy of Henri Gournay de Marcheville 5 From East to West  Jansenists, Orientalists, and the Eucharistic Controversy  1 The Embassy in Istanbul  2 Protestant Reactions  3 Eastern Beliefs  4 Conclusion 6 Adrianus Relandus (1676–1718)  Outstanding Orientalist 7 Arabists and Cartesians at Utrecht 8 Pilgrims, Missionaries, and Scholars  Western Descriptions of the Monastery of St Paul from the Late Fourteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century  1 Prosperity to Destitution  2 Revival and Restoration  3 Continuity and Change  4 Scholarly Investigation 9 The Metamorphoses of Georg August Wallin Part 2: Arabic Studies 10 Arabic Studies in Europe  1 The Motives  2 The Grammars  3 The Dictionaries  4 The Schools 11 The Victims of Progress  The Raphelengius Arabic Type and Bedwell’s Arabic Lexicon 12 ‘Nam Tirones Sumus’  Franciscus Raphelengius’s Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (Leiden 1613)  1 Antwerp  2 Leiden  3 Publication  4 Raphelengius’s Arabic Manuscripts  Appendix: Raphelengius’s Arabic Manuscripts in the Leiden University Library 13 Franciscus Raphelengius  The Hebraist and His Manuscripts 14 Abraham Ecchellensis et son ‘Nomenclator Arabico-Latinus’  1 Introduction  2 Ecchellensis lexicologue  3 Les sources du ‘Nomenclator’  4 L’organisation du ‘Nomenclator’  5 Un vocabulaire chrétien  6 Le ‘Nomenclator’ et le Coran  7 Conclusion Part 3: Islam and the Qurʾan 15 The Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe  1 From the Islamic Conquests to the Reformation  2 Parallel Developments: the Protestant North  3 Parallel Developments: the Catholic South  4 Conclusion 16 A Lutheran Translator for the Qurʾan  A Late Seventeenth-Century Quest  1 The Turkish Defeat  2 Competing Translators  3 The Key to Success 17 ‘To Rescue the Honour of the Germans’  Qurʾan Translations by Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century German Protestants 18 The Qurʾan as Chrestomathy in Early Modern Europe 19 After Marracci  The Reception of Ludovico Marracci’s Edition of the Qurʾan in Northern Europe from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first complete study of the relationship between Retranslation and Reception. Although many translation scholars have cited Reception Theory in their work, this is the first systematic study of its relationship to Retranslation. The book starts from the hypothesis that frequent retranslations of the same literary text into the same language may be indicative of its impact in the target culture. The volume encompasses both theory and practical analysis of Retranslation and Reception as mutually dependent concepts. The sixteen chapters relate the translations analysed to their socio-historical contexts in order to assess the impact that they have had on the target culture in terms of the reception of the authors studied, and also explore the relationship that may exist between the appearance of new translations and historical, social or cultural changes.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures 1 Retranslation and Reception – a Theoretical Overview  Susanne M. Cadera and Andrew Samuel Walsh Part 1: Literary Canon and Retranslation 2 Non-retranslation as a Special Case of (Non?-)Reception  Piet Van Poucke 3 Retranslation and Online Reader Response: Le Petit Prince in Turkey in the Twenty-First Century  Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar 4 Canonical Translation and Retranslation. The Example of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis in Spain  Susanne M. Cadera 5 Hendrik Conscience’s The Poor Gentleman and Its Italian Retranslations  Roberto Dagnino Part 2: (Re)translation and (Self-) Censorship 6 Translation and Self-Censorship in Gerald Brenan’s The Face of Spain  Andrew Samuel Walsh 7 (Re) Translating Goethe into Catalan  Montserrat Franquesa Gòdia 8 (Re)translation of Sex-Related Language in the Spanish Versions of J’irai cracher sur vos tombes by Boris Vian  Xavier Bocquier Part 3: Rewriting, Reprinting and Retranslation 9 Dopo il divorzio by Grazia Deledda: Reception, Rewriting, Retranslation  Helena Lozano Miralles 10 Drama Retranslation in Distinct Socio-Political Contexts: Accommodating Lope De Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna for the British Stage  Jorge Braga Riera 11 Retranslations and Their Reception in Context  Adrienn Gulyás 12 The Reception of La coscienza di Zeno (Italo Svevo) in the Spanish Versions of Carlos Manzano (1981–2012). Between Revision and Retranslation  José Luis Aja Part 4: Retitling in Retranslation 13 Good-for-Nothing, Idler or Vagabond? The Spanish Fortunes of Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts by Joseph von Eichendorff  Andrea Schäpers 14 Retranslation of Mario Vargas Llosa’s Bildungsroman La tía Julia y el escribidor: Relaunching and Retitling as a Case in Point  Claudia Cabezón Doty Part 5: Modernizing Retranslations 15 Translating and Retranslating Lobo Antunes: On Both of the English Renditions of Os Cus de Judas  Marisa Mourinha 16 Characterizing Daisy Buchanan in Retranslations of The Great Gatsby: Translator Behavior and Reader Reception  Katinka Zeven and Aletta G. Dorst Index

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Book SynopsisThe Eastern Himalaya holds perhaps the highest levels of ethnolinguistic diversity in all Eurasia, with over 300 languages spoken by as many distinct cultural groups. What factors can explain such diversity? How did it evolve, and what can its analysis teach us about the prehistory of its wider region? This pioneering interdisciplinary volume brings together a diverse group of linguists and anthropologists, all of whom seek to reconstruct aspects of Eastern Himalayan ethnolinguistic prehistory from an empirical standpoint, on the basis of primary fieldwork-derived data from a diverse range of Himalayan Indigenous languages and cultural practices. Contributors are: David Bradley, Scott DeLancey, Toni Huber, Gwendolyn Hyslop, Linda Konnerth, Ismael Lieberherr, Yankee Modi, Stephen Morey, Mark W. Post, Uta Reinöhl, Alban Stockhausen, Amos Teo, and Marion Wettstein .Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures and Maps Introduction: Ethno-linguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya: Diversity and Its Sources  Mark W. Post, Stephen Morey and Toni Huber Part 1 Cultural Practice and Prehistory 2 Reconsidering Zomia from an Eastern Himalayan Perspective  Mark W. Post 3 The Prehistory of Tangsa as Recorded in Traditional Songs and Stories  Stephen Morey 4 Ethnographic Comparison and Pre-history? A Comparison of Chamdam Status Rituals among the Dumi Rai of Eastern Nepal and the Feasts of Merit among the Ao Naga of Northeast India  Marion Wettstein and Alban Stockhausen 5 Principles of Naming in the Eastern Himalaya: What Can They Tell Us about Prehistory?  Yankee Modi 6 Puroik Sago Terminology  Ismael Lieberherr Part 2 Language and Prehistory 7 Phylogeny of Tibeto-Burman from Plants and Animals  David Bradley 8 Pre-modern Language Contact in Nagaland  Amos Teo 9 Locating Kera’a (Idu Mishmi) in Its Linguistic Neighbourhood: Evidence from Dialectology  Uta Reinoehl 10 First Person Pronominals in Kuki-Naga  Scott DeLancey 11 Sound Changes from Proto-South-Central (“Proto-Kuki-Chin”) to Monsang and Their Implications for the Classification of the Northwestern Languages within the South-Central Branch  Linda Konnerth 12 Kurtöp Verbal Morphology in the East Bodish Context: A Case Study in Ethnohistorical Morphosyntax?  Gwendolyn Hyslop

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Book SynopsisAn experiment with language. Is it an object cultivated in poetic laboratories where entry is locked for mere mortals? And what do language scholars think about it? Specialists in language and literature studies interested in linguistic innovation and experimental poetry will find answers to these questions in Vladimir Feshchenko’s book. The study investigates various strategies of radical linguistic creativity in Russian and American experimental writing of the 20th century and explores cases of contemporary ‘language-oriented’ and ‘trans-language’ poetry. It is a comparative examination of two national avant-garde cultures, but also a juxtaposition of the relationships that Russian and American avant-garde poetics had with linguistic ideas of their times. The monograph may serve as a wonderful introduction to the entire field of ‘linguistic poetics of the avant-garde’.

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Book SynopsisThis work looks at basic colour terms in Modern Irish by presenting the historical development of these terms since their earliest attestation and in comparison with the other Gaelic languages, namely, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. These terms are analysed based on lexicographical and didactic material, as well as their use in placenames and proverbs, resources with great potential but which have been underused in colour terminology research in general. Its conclusion is the presentation of fieldwork results with native speakers from all major Irish dialects based on their responses to the colours of items in pictures, research which has never been previously conducted, to see whether their use of colour terminology matches that as presented, and to comment on the current state of Irish basic colour terminology.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures General Introduction 1 Theoretical Background  1.1 Introduction  1.2 Pre-modern Research on Colours and Colour Terminology  1.3 Modern Research on Basic Colour Terms  1.4 Research on Goidelic Basic Colour Terms  1.5 Lexicographical Works on the Goidelic Languages from a Diachronic Perspective  1.6 Concluding Remarks 2 An Analysis of Goidelic Basic Colour Terms on the Basis of Lexicographical and Didactic Material  2.1 Introduction  2.2 The Basic Colour Terms  2.3 Common Celtic Basic Colour Terms  2.4 The Historical Period from Old Irish onwards and the Shift in Colour Terminology  2.5 Unsaturated and Semantically Specialised Colour Terms  2.6 Modern Outside Influences  2.7 Concluding Remarks 3 An Analysis of Sayings and Placenames  3.1 Introduction  3.2 Proverbs and Sayings  3.3 Placenames  3.4 Concluding Remarks 4 Fieldwork  4.1 Introduction  4.2 Fieldwork  4.3 Concluding Remarks 5 Conclusions Appendix 1: Pictures Appendix 2: Questionnaire References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume honors the extraordinary scholarship of Prof. Gary A. Rendsburg, whose work and friendship have influenced so many in the last five decades. Twenty-five prominent scholars from the US, Europe, Israel, and Australia have contributed significant original studies in three of Rendsburg’s areas of interest and expertise: Hebrew language, Hebrew Bible, and Hebrew manuscripts. These linguistic, philological, literary, epigraphic, and historical approaches to the study of Hebrew and its textual traditions serve as a worthy tribute to such an accomplished scholar, and also as an illustration how all of these approaches can complement one another in the fields of Hebrew and Biblical Studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface The Publications of Gary A. Rendsburg Part 1 Hebrew Language 1 On Third Person Masculine Plural Pronouns in Hebrew  Steven E. Fassberg 2 Out of the Sweet Came Good: A Study in Semitic Etymology  Edward L. Greenstein 3 Hebraisms in Mandaic  C.G. Häberl 4 The Phasal Narrative Function of Long yiqṭol and weqaṭal in Biblical Hebrew  Geoffrey Khan 5 Windows, Walls, and Terebinths: The -ōn Morph in חַלּוֹנֵינוּ ḥallōnēnū (Jer 9:20) and Beyond  Frank H. Polak 6 On the Biblical Hebrew Preposition min  Aaron D. Rubin 7 Historical Linguistics and Language Change: the Rabbinic Hebrew Deponent  Azzan Yadin-Israel 8 The Etymology and Meaning of Kuntillet ʿAjrud: An Experimental Inquiry  Ziony Zevit Part 2 Hebrew Bible 9 שֵׁדִים šēḏīm: Shades of Difference between ‘Demons’, Deity, and שַׁדַּי šadday  Debra Scoggins Ballentine 10 Greek Eros in Song of Songs 8:6–7  Adele Berlin 11 Month Names in the Bible  Christian M.M. Brady 12 Further Reflections on Egyptian Influences on the Early Hebrews—Priestly Matters  James K. Hoffmeier 13 The Akedah in a Different Voice  Aaron Koller 14 Targum Jonathan in the Critical Apparatus of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta in 1 and 2 Samuel  Craig E. Morrison 15 Hidden Waters: The Sounds of Sinking in the Song of the Sea  Scott B. Noegel 16 Sound Play in the Song of Hannah  Elizabeth Robar 17 Northern Refugees in Jerusalem: The Case of Menaḥem, Son of Yawbana  William M. Schniedewind 18 Transformation and Continuity in Liturgical Poetry: The Case of Psalm 20  Benjamin D. Sommer 19 Two Notes on the Rescue of Moses in Exodus and in the Dura-Europos Synagogue Mural  Jeffrey H. Tigay 20 Isaiah 15:9  H.G.M. Williamson 21 The Joy of Secondary Texts: The “Little Horn” in Masoretic Text and Old Greek Daniel 7–8  Ian Young Part 3 Hebrew Manuscripts 22 Who Wrote Acrostic Signatures in Early Masoretic Bibles? The Case of Ḥananya ha-Levi ben Shelomo  Vincent D. Beiler 23 Christian Scholarship and Jewish Prayer in 13th-Century England: Oxford, MS Arch. Selden A. 3  Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 24 The Curious Case of the Corresponding Colophons in Codex Cairo 3  Benjamin M. Outhwaite 25 A Letter from the Chief of the Samaritans, with a Little Present  Stefan Schorch

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