Near Eastern and Arabian essays : studies in honour of John F. Healey / edited by George J. Brooke, Adrian H.W. Curtis, Muntasir al-Hamad and G. Rex Smith.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Oxford : Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester, 2018.
  • ©2018
Description
xx, 313 pages : illustrations (some color), map (some color) ; 25 cm.

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Subject(s)
Editor
Honouree
Series
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • The place of Elias Levita's Meturgeman in the history of Targum studies / Philip Alexander
  • 'Crowning the hills': a contribution to the debate about the legacy of Canaan / George J. Brooke
  • North Arabian features in the Nabataean Aramaic inscriptions from Madā'in Sālih: a contact-linguistic analysis / Aaron Michael Butts
  • Communication between Gods and Kings in Phoenician and early Aramaic inscriptions / Kevin J. Cathcart
  • The gleaner woman: A text in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Peshabur / Eleanor Coghill
  • Baal-Berith and El-Berith: some issues arising from Judges 8 and 9 / Adrian H. W. Curtis
  • An additional notebook containing E.H. Palmer's copies of Nabataean inscriptions in the Sinai Peninsula / Graham Davies
  • Huns, Turks and Tatars in Syriac liminal spaces / Mark Dickens
  • A Thamudic inscription by a 'deputy' (*lf) at Humayma / David F. Graf
  • The Gnostic tendencies in human understanding in Ṣūfī literature / Ṣinasi Gündüz
  • Revisiting the Arabic verses of the 'Ain 'Avdat inscription / Muntasir al-Hamad
  • Perspectives on Syriac Christianity in Southern Mesopotamia and the Gulf / Erica C.D. Hunter
  • Remarks on the Hellenistic features in architecture and art in the city of Hatra / Adil al-Jadir
  • Sound symbolism in Neo-Aramaic / Geoffrey Khan
  • Cultural imperialism at the borders of empire: the case of the 'Villa of the Amazons' in Edessa / Emma Loosley
  • Clues to how a Nabataean may have spoken, from a Hismaic inscription / M.C.A Macdonald
  • A Syriac cross from Hatra / Marco Moriggi
  • Writing 'the other': a fear of difference: Strabo and the Nabataeans / Fahad M. Al-Otaibi
  • Reflections on a heart-shaped Pier at Petra / Kay Prag
  • 'Murder most foul' -a report in literary mixed Arabic of the final journey and death of Hermann Burchardt in early twentieth-century Yemen / G. Rex Smith
  • Minaean inscription Jaussen-Savignac 4: a new reading / Solaiman Abdulrahman al-Theeb and Fuad Hassan al-Amer
  • Some observations on commerce and covenant in the Qur'an / Andrew Marsham
ISBN
  • 0198831064
  • 9780198831068
OCLC
1061805149
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