{"product_id":"to-the-madbar-and-back-again-studies-in-the-languages-archaeology-and-cultures-of-arabia-dedicated-to-michael-c-a-macdonald-9789004356122","title":"To the Madbar and Back Again: Studies in the languages, archaeology, and cultures of Arabia dedicated to Michael C.A. Macdonald","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210740687191,"sku":"9789004356122","price":144.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-the-madbar-and-back-again-studies-in-the-languages-archaeology-and-cultures-of-arabia-dedicated-to-michael-c-a-macdonald-9789004356122","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}