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Book SynopsisThe IOS Annual Volume 21: “Carrying a Torch to Distant Mountains”, brings forth cutting-edge studies devoted to a wide array of fields and disciplines of the Middle East. The three sections—the Ancient Near East, Semitic Languages and Linguistics, and Arabic Language and Literature—include sixteen articles. In the Ancient Near East section are studies devoted to Babylonian literature (Gabbay and Wasserman; Ayali-Darshan), history (Cohen and Torrecilla), and language (Zadok). The Semitic Languages and Linguistics section contains discussions about comparative Semitics—Egyptian and Modern South Arabic (Borg; Cerqueglini), Aramaic dialects (Khan; Stadel), Palestinian Arabic (Arnold; Procházka), and Tigre and Ethiosemitic languages (Voigt). The final section of Arabic Language and Literature is devoted to ʿArabiyya and its grammarians (Dror, Versteegh, Sheyhatovitch, Kasher, and Sadan).
Table of ContentsEditorial Part 1 The Ancient Near East 1 “I Am Carrying a Torch to the Faraway Mountains”: An Old Babylonian Bilingual Personal Prayer and Its Textual Transmission Uri Gabbay and Nathan Wasserman 2 The Campaign against the Suteans and the Project in The Land of Mukiš: A Consideration of Letters RSO 23 28–36, and 39 from the House of Urtenu in Ugarit Yoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla 3 The Editorial Technique of Resumptive Repetition: The Cosmogony and the Anthropogony in Enūma Eliš Noga Ayali-Darshan 4 On Aramaic Loanwords in Neo- and Late-babylonian Texts: Introduction and Semantic-Topical Taxonomy (Part One) Ran Zadok Part 2 Semitic Languages and Linguistics 5 Phonological Peculiarities of Palestinian Folksongs Werner Arnold 6 Is Old Egyptian dp.t, ‘Ship’, a Bronze Age Afroasiatic Isogloss? An Etymological and Archaeological Vignette Alexander Borg 7 Ancient Egyptian Words in Modern South Arabian Languages Letizia Cerqueglini 8 Remarks on the Christian Neo-aramaic Dialect of Shaqlawa Geoffrey Khan 9 The Arabic Dialects of the Jezreel Plain and the Hula Valley (Galilee): Grammatical Notes, Remarks on Linguistic Contact, and Texts Stephan Procházka 10 The Loss of the Infinitive and Its Replacement by the Imperfect in Christian Palestinian Aramaic Christian Stadel 11 Some Remarks about Laryngeal Rules in Tigre Rainer M. Voigt Part 3 Arabic Language and Literature 12 Cognitive Verbs as a Strategy for Expressing Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in the Qurʾān Yehudit Dror 13 Redundance and Suppression According to Sībawayhi and al-Farrāʾ Kees Versteegh 14 The Term fāʾida in Pragmatic and Rhetorical Discussions by Arab Grammarians Beata Sheyhatovitch 15 How (Not) to Read Pedagogical Grammars of Arabic: The Case of the Subjunctive Mood Almog Kasher 16 Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on the Structure of the Adverbial Accusative of Cause and Purpose (al-mafʿūl lahu) According to Arabic Grammarians Arik Sadan Index
