Journal of Semitic Studies 59/2 Autumn 2014

Journal of Semitic Studies Volume 59 Issue 2 Autumn 2014

Articles

Christo H.J. van der Merwe and Alexander Andrason

Finite infinite? ‘Finite’ Uses of the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute and their Rationale

Mariona Vernet Pons

The Origin of the Name Sepharad: A New Interpretation

Ahmad Al-Jallad

Final Short Vowels in Gə‘əz, Hebrew ’attâ, and the Anceps Paradox

Martin R. Zammit

British Library Add. 14,493: A Very Early Garšūnī Text

Yasin Dutton

Old Light On A New Problem: The Kalāla Verses Revisited

Christopher Melchert

The Life and Works of Al-Nasāʾī

Benyamin Rish

Samīr Naqqāsh in His Writings Challenges Existentialist Philosophers with the Ideas of Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrīʾ

Reviews

Journal of Semitic Studies 59/1

Journal of Semitic Studies Vol. 59/1

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  Aren Wilson-Wright

The Word for ‘One’ in Proto-Semitic

• Bo Isaksson

Clause Linking Strategies in the Narrative and Instructional Discourse of Joseph's Speech in Gen. 45:3–15

• Uri Gabbay

Hebrew Śôm Śekel (Neh. 8:8) in Light of Aramaic and Akkadian

• Robert D. Holmstedt and
 
• Andrew R. Jones

The Pronoun in Tripartite Verbless Clauses in Biblical Hebrew: Resumption for Left-Dislocation or Pronominal Copula?

• Silvia Fazzo and
 
• Mauro Zonta

Towards a Textual History and Reconstruction of Alexander of Aphrodisias's Treatise On the Principles of the Universe

• Sean W. Anthony

Further Notes on the Word Ṣibgha in Qurʾān 2:138

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• Vltaly Naumkin, 
• Leonid Kogan, 
• Dmitry Cherkashin, 
• Aḥmad ʿĪsā ad-Daʿrhī, 
• and ʿĪsa Gumʿān Ad-Daʿrhī

Two Archaic Poetic Compositions in Soqotri: 1905–1981–2012

• Sabrina Bendjaballah and
 
• Philippe Ségéral

The Phonology of ‘Idle Glottis’ Consonants in the Mehri of Oman (Modern South Arabian)

Journal of Semitic Studies 58/2

Journal of Semitic Studies Volume 58 Issue 2 Autumn 2013

Articles

Peter Bekins: Non-Prototypical Uses of the Definite Article in Biblical Hebrew

Ortal-Paz Saar: An Incantation Bowl for Sowing Discord

Yifat Monnickendam: Articulating Marriage: Ephrem's Legal Terminology and its Origins

Adam McCollum: Prolegomena to a New Edition of Eliya of Nisibis's Kitāb al-turjumān fī ta'līm luġat al-suryān 

Geula Elimelekh: Kafkaesque Metamorphosis as Reflected in the Works of Samīr Naqqāsh

Domenyk Eades and Maria Persson: Aktionsart, Word Form and Context: On the Use of the Active Participle in Gulf Arabic Dialects

Salman Ilaiyan and Khalid Sindawi: Verb Derivations from the Names of Countries and Peoples in the Middle East and Around the World

Reviews

Journal of Semitic Studies 58/1

Volume 58 Issue 1 Spring 2013

Articles

Mikhal Oren:

Interference in Ancient Languages as Evidenced by Governed Prepositions

John Huehnergard and Saul M. Olyan

The Etymology of Hebrew and Aramaic Ykl ‘to be able’

Elizabeth Robar

Wayyiqol as an Unlikely Preterite

David Prebor

The Restricted Semantic Field of Property in Mishnaic Hebrew

Bahaa Amer Al-Jubouri

An Aramaic Incantation Text

Tarsee Li

Syriac Enclitic Pronouns Added to  and 

Daniel King

Grammar and Logic in Syriac (and Arabic)

Geoffrey Herman

The Passion of Shabur, Martyred in the 18th year of Yazdgird with a Fragment of the Life of Mar Aba Catholicos

Siam Bhayro, Robert Hawley, Grigory Kessel, and Peter E. Pormann

The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: Progress, Prospects and Problems

David Wilmsen

Grammaticalization of the Arabic Demonstrative Iyyā- as a Pronominal Object Marker in Ditransitive Verbs: An Answer to Bravmann

Domenyk Eades, Janet C.E. Watson, and Mohammed Ahmad al-Mahri

Camel Culture and Camel Terminology Among the Omani Bedouin

Reviews

Journal of Semitic Studies 57/2

Journal of Semitic Studies Volume 57 Issue 2 Autumn 2012

Articles

E.J. Revell The Occurrence of Pausal Forms

Aaron Koller Diachronic Change and Synchronic Readings: Midrashim on Stative Verbs and Participles¹

Khalid Sindawi ‘Tell your Cousin to Place a Ring on his Right Hand and Set it with a Carnelian’: Notes on Wearing the Ring on the Right Hand among Shī'ites

Alessandro Mengozzi ‘That I might speak and the ear listen to me!’: On Genres in Traditional Modern Aramaic Literature

Zahia Smail Salhi and Abeer Abbasi Astrology between Poetics and Politics in the Abbasid Period: Abū al-‘Alā’ al-Ma'arrī as Case Study

Reviews

Short Notices

Books Received

Index: Journal of Semitic Studies Volume LVI (2012)