The IOS Annual Volume 22

"Telling of Olden Kings"
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52678-5
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: The IOS Annual

The 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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Yoram

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cohen, Yoram

Gilan, Amir

Wasserman, Nathan

Cerqueglini, Letizia

Sheyhatovitch, Beata

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial

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/S?er?t Anthroponyms

Giuliano Castagna

6 Early Sabaic/ G???z 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

Über Autor(innen)

Yoram Cohen, Ph.D. (2003), Harvard University, is Professor of Assyriology and the Ancient Near East at Tel Aviv University. He has published four monographs on Hittite society, scribal schools at Emar, wisdom, and omen literature, in addition to multiple studies on Bronze Age Syria.

Amir Gilan, Ph.D. (2009), Leipzig University, is Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has written extensively on Hittite history, literature, and religion, including Formen und Inhalte althethitischer historischer Literatur (2015).

Nathan Wasserman, Ph.D. (1993), The Hebrew University, is Professor of Assyriology at the Hebrew University. He specializes in Akkadian literature of the Old Babylonian period. He has published six monographs on the literature, history, and grammar of the Old Babylonian period.

Letizia Cerqueglini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Pisa/Ben-Gurion University, is Senior Lecturer of Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She has published monographs and articles on Semitic languages, cognition, and culture, including Space and Time in as-Sani' Arabic. A Cross-Generational Study (2022).

Beata Sheyhatovitch, Ph.D. (2016), Tel Aviv University, is Senior Lecturer of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. She has published a monograph on the distinctive terminology in Šarh al-Kafiya by Radi l-Din al-'Astarabadi and articles on the medieval Arabic linguistic tradition.