Books in the Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement series

Quadriliteral verbs in Arabic add a new flexibility to the speakers of Arabic. The basic function of the expansions into quadrilateral verbs is to indicate intensity or repetition of ideas denoted by bi-radical or by triradical verbs. This study explores the procedures of the formation of quadrilateral verbs in Iraqi spoken Arabic.

The book forms an important contribution to our knowledge of medieval science and particularly medicine. It provides a critical edition and annotated English translation of a medical treatise written in Arabic by the Jewish philosopher Jacob ben Isaac, a contemporary of the great Maimonides, and puts the text in a historical framework.

A fully annotated translation of a manual written in the 12th century AD for the practical use of the Islamic inspector of markets. The manual deals with a variety of professions, and explores ruses and tricks of the trade. The liveliness of description and anecdote and the concern with ordinary people makes for fascinating reading.

The current collective volume consists of more than 600 Hebrew terms in the field of medieval science, especially medicine which do not feature in the current dictionaries of the Hebrew language at all, or in an insufficient way. It is intended to ease the consultation of medieval Hebrew scientific texts in general and medical texts in particular.

This work provides the essential information on twenty-three previously uncatalogued Ethiopic manuscripts in England: fourteen in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University, two in the Cambridge University Library, three in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, and four from the private collection of Dr. Ian MacLennan (London).

A collection of papers from the 2009 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies conference, ranging across Middle Eastern history (both ancient and modern), culture, literature and language.

This volume brings together eight papers presented by a panel on Arabic linguistics at the 14th Italian Meeting of Afroasiatic Linguistics in 2011. They address multiple aspects of classical and colloquial Arabic: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology and lexicography, but also semantics and pragmatics, as well as logic and argumentation.

This study and edition of nineteenth-century Arabic plays reveals the considerable contribution of the Jewish community to the early development of modern Arabic drama. The plays link The Arabian Nights and Jewish Purim-shpil with the comedies of Moliere and the enlightenment drama of Gotthold Lessing.

This volume reflects the late Norman Calder's own interests and contributions. It includes articles by scholars who are similarly renowned for their sophisticated and challenging approaches to Arabic and Islamic texts. Also represented are his former students and colleagues working in the field of Rabbinic Studies, which informed his own work.

Targum Jonathan is one of our most important sources for understanding how Jews read, interpreted, and used the Hebrew Bible in Late Antiquity and in subsequent generations. Through a detailed study of the extant medieval manuscripts of Targum Samuel this book explains how and why the text of Targum Jonathan changed over time.

This volume is part of a wider project aiming at mapping the technical medical terminology as it features in medieval Hebrew medical works. The volume covers Hebrew translations of Hippocrates' Medical Aphorisms, one of the most popular medical works in the ancient and medieval world.

This volume traces this history from Justinian-era monastic communities through Sassanid medical academies to the caliphal court at Baghdad by comparing the Syriac and Arabic translations of the Hippocratic Aphorisms, a venerable Greek introduction to the art of medicine, focusing on the work of the famous translator and physician Hunayn ibn Ishaq.

Over forty different features are discussed through a comparison between the 'biblical' scrolls and the other major witnesses to the Hebrew Bible.

Amongst other topics the essays pay attention to the Jewish Targums, to Biblical Studies, to Nabataean matters, to Early Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic, to Syriac sources, to Islamic traditions, and to aspects of Near Eastern archaeology.

This volume includes new analysis of perfectivity in language, showing how the Biblical Hebrew verb forms encode perfectivity and deals with modality within the approach of possible-world-semantics, showing that Biblical Hebrew verb forms encode modality as well.

This collection of fifteen essays on biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts, language, and culture is dedicated to Professor Kevin James Cathcart. Contributions to the volume reflect Professor Cathcart's own philological focus and wide-ranging interests in the fields of biblical studies, Semitic philology, and the ancient Near East.

This volume is the result of collaborative work conducted with a number of native speakers of the languages over several years. The volume presents a comparative cultural glossary of 345 head terms, which are given in the six Modern South Arabian languages.

The first full study of the important first century AD Nabataean inscriptions of Mada'in Salih in Saudi Arabia since the turn of the century, this unique and authoritative work incorporates fifty halftone illustrations of tomb inscriptions.

A major source for the medieval economic and social history of the Yemen in particular and of the Middle East in general. Of relevance to European medieval economic history.

This is the first English translation of the work of fourth-century theologian, Ephrem the Syrian, on the Diatessaron-a text woven from the four Gospels, which predates the earliest-known evidence of the official Syriac translation of the New Testament.

A collection of essays written in honour of Professor G. Rex Smith, arabist, historian, and scholar of the medieval history of the Yemen, on aspects of the pre-Islamic and Islamic history of Arabia and the Yemen written by a group of international scholars.

This is the first monograph devoted to the five Syriac Apocryphal Psalms. These include Psalm 151, known from the Septuagint, as well as two Psalms also found in a Hebrew version in a Psalm Scroll from Qumran. These are studied in their relation to the Hebrew and Greek originals. The study includes material from unpublished Syriac manuscripts.

This volume brings together Michael Weitzman's most important contributions to the study of the Hebrew and the Syriac bibles, and the relationship between ancient Judaism and emerging Christianity. This work will be useful to those interested in the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and its versions.

This is the first reliable biography of Mulla Sadra Shirazi that examines his influences and legacy and includes an extensive survey of his work.

This volume offers new insights into the origins of formal Jewish prayer, using Dead Sea Scrolls material and related texts. It also looks at the relationship between magic and prayer in Rabbinic thought. Modern Jewish prayer is examined from the point of view of Hasidic traditions and practices and there is a modern re-reading of the Haggadah.