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Book SynopsisMichael C.A. Macdonald is one of the great names of Arabian Studies. He pioneered the field of Ancient North Arabian and made invaluable contributions to the history of Arabia and the nomads of the Near East, their languages, and their scripts. This volume gathers thirty-two innovative contributions from leading scholars in the field to honor the career of Michael C.A. Macdonald, covering the languages and scripts of ancient Arabia, their history and archaeology, the Hellenistic Near East, and the modern dialects and languages of Arabia. The book is an essential part of the library of any who study the Near East, its languages and its cultures.
Table of ContentsThe Research of M.C.A. Macdonald Publications of M.C.A. Macdonald Tabula Gratulatoria Tables and Figures Contributors Epigraphy and Philology 1 Les artisans et professions « libérales » dans le domaine nabatéen Laila Nehmé 2 Anmerkungen zum safaitischen und althebräischen Onomastikon Walter W. Müller 3 Safaitic Prayers, Curses, Grief and More from Wadi Salhub—North-Eastern Jordan Hani Hayajneh 4 Notes on ḥwb in Safaitic Chiara Della Puppa 5 Traditional Music or Religious Ritual? Ancient Rock Art Illumined by Bedouin Custom Ali Al-Manaser 6 The Formularies and Their Historical Implications: Two Examples from Ancient South Arabian Epigraphic Documentation Alessandra Avanzini 7 Ancient South Arabian Graffiti from Shabathān (Governorate of al-Bayḍāʾ, Yemen) Alessia Prioletta 8 Schreiben, meißeln, Fehler machen. Zur Funktion von Schrift im öffentlichen Raum im antiken Südarabien Peter Stein 9 The Phonemes ẓ and ṭ in the Dadanitic Inscriptions Fokelien Kootstra 10 Dadanitic Inscriptions from Jabal al-Khraymāt (Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ) María del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 11 Un sanctuaire de montagne : Mushannaf Maurice Sartre 12 Un pasteur et un soldat ? Deux inscriptions grecques d’ époque romaine à l’ est du Jabal Ḥawrān François Villeneuve 13 Méharistes et cavaliers romains dans le désert jordanien Pierre-Louis Gatier 14 Goras, sanglier ou jeune lion (ou onagre) ? Jean-Baptiste Yon 15 A Lead Syriac Protective Talisman Sebastian Brock 16 Two New Arabic Inscriptions: Arabian Castles and Christianity in the Umayyad Period Robert Hoyland 17 The Etymology of Ḥattā Ahmad al-Jallad 18 Are Libyco-Berber Horizontal ṯ and Vertical h the Same Sign? Marijn van Putten Archaeology, History and Religion 19 The Outer Wall of Taymāʾ and Its Dating to the Bronze Age Arnulf Hausleiter 20 Pottery from the “Midianite Heartland”? On Tell Kheleifeh and Qurayyah Painted Ware. New Evidence from the Harvard Semitic Museum Marta Luciani 21 A Caravan Merchant Family of ‘Antioch on the Chrysorhoas’. A Glimpse of Hellenistic Gerasa as a Caravanserai Ina Kehrberg(-Ostrasz) 22 The Visit of Mālik bin Muʿāwiyah, King of Kindah and Maḏḥiǧ to the Himyarite King Šammar Yuharʿiš in Maʾrib Mohammed Maraqten 23 Der rituelle Umzug des Yadaʿʾil Ḏarīḥ nach Ṣirwāḥ Norbert Nebes 24 Sedentism of Arabs in the 8th–4th Centuries BC Israel Ephʿal 25 Reflections on Arab Leadership in Late Antiquity Greg Fisher 26 A Paradise in the Desert: Iram at the Intersection of One Thousand and One Nights, Quranic Exegesis, and Arabian history Orhan Elmaz 27 Mourning for the Dead and the Beginning of Idolatry in the Kitāb al-Aṣnām and the Spelunca Thesaurorum—an Unknown Parallel to Sūrat at-Takāṯur (Q102)? Konstantin M. Klein 28 Temple Inscriptions and “the Death of the God(s)” John F. Healey 29 ‘The Conception of Jesus’ Hannah M. Cotton Paltiel Modern Dialects and Tribes 30 Drink Long and Drink in Peace: Singing to Livestock at Water in Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman Miranda J. Morris and Sālim ʕAwaḏ̣̣ Ahmad al-Shaḥri 31 South Arabian Sibilants and the Śḥerɛ̄t s̃ ~ š Contrast Alex Bellem and Janet C.E. Watson 32 Was There a “Bedouinisation of Arabia? Probably Not, at Least in the Way It Has so Far been Portrayed William Lancaster and Fidelity Lancaster Index
