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Book SynopsisThe IOS Annual volume 22: “Telling of Olden Kings” brings forth studies devoted to a wide array fields and disciplines of the Middle East. The Ancient Near East section is devoted to Neo-Babylonian Mesopotamia and the Achaemenid Empire (Da Riva and Novotny; Levavi; Tavernier and Azzoni; Zadok). The Semitic section includes three articles dealing with contact between various languages of the Semitic language group and between Semitic languages and dialects and other language groups (Castagna; Cerqueglini; Klimiuk and Lipnicka). The Arabic section contains two articles two articles about Modern Iraqi and Egyptian Poetry (Khoury) and the image of Rahav the harlot in early Muslim traditions (Yavor).
Table of ContentsEditorial Part 1 The Ancient Near East 1 A Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II from Uruk in the Collection of David and Cindy Sofer, London, Displayed in the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem Rocío Da Riva and Jamie Novotny 2 On the Use of Personal Names in Neo-Babylonian Epistolography Yuval Levavi 3 Scribal Confusion in Aramaic Renderings of Iranian Anthroponyms: A Preliminary Study Jan Tavernier and Annalisa Azzoni 4 The Scribes of Borsippa in the First Millennium BC: A Preliminary Survey Ran Zadok Part 2 Semitic Languages and Linguistics 5 Etymological Investigations on Jibbali/Śḥerέt Anthroponyms Giuliano Castagna 6 Early Sabaic/ Gǝʿǝz Shared Lexical Stock: Retentions, Innovations and Loanwords Letizia Cerqueglini 7 The Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary Remarks Maciej Klimiuk and Maria Lipnicka Part 3 Arabic Language and Literature 8 Elements of Folktales in Modern Arabic Poetry—The First Half of the 20th Century Jeries Khoury 9 From a Canaanite Prostitute to an Israelite Wo/Man: On the Incarnations of Rahab in Early Muslim Tradition Yolanda Yavor
