{"product_id":"the-ios-annual-volume-21-carrying-a-torch-to-distant-mountains-9789004499133","title":"The IOS Annual Volume 21. “Carrying a Torch to Distant Mountains”","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210833289559,"sku":"9789004499133","price":144.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ios-annual-volume-21-carrying-a-torch-to-distant-mountains-9789004499133","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}