Books in the Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement series

A survey of the historical and religious problems involved in the interconnection between the Sabians of the Qu'ran, the Mandaeans of southern Iraq, and the `Sabians' of Harran in northern Mesopotamia.

This volume traces the evolution of Sabaean culture and the Sabaic language. This is the fifth in the series of Supplements to the Journal of Semitic Studies (OUP). These supplements will be published in hardback and sold as books: they will not be available as part of the subscription to the Journal.

This volume is a rich and varied collection of studies by major experts in the field of Jewish biblical interpretation. In exemplary studies covering classical, medieval and modern uses of the Bible, the authors address the issues of Jewish attitudes to, and use of, the Bible through the centuries.

This volume contains a collection of articles that present studies of medieval Karaite texts. The articles in the volume concern primary manuscript sources, the majority of which have not been published so far. They examine various topics in Biblical exegesis and grammar.

These wide-ranging articles by international experts in the field fill some of the lacunae in our knowledge of publishing and printing in the Middle East. The collection, covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present, embraces significant developments throughout the Middle East.

This study is the companion volume to the new Arabic Edition of 'Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti's imposing magnum opus 'Aja'ib al-Athar fi 'l-Tarajim wa-'l-Akhbar (The Marvellous Compositions of Biographies and Events). Moreh has made a rigorous comparison of the entire text as found in the most important manuscripts and in the printed editions.

The Palmyrene tax inscription of 137 CE, published in Russian in 1980, has been largely neglected in subsequent scholarship. Shifman had direct access to the inscription and provides a detailed account of the recovery of the inscription, editing and translating the Greek and Aramaic text, and adding a detailed philological commentary.

The book provides the reader with a translation and analysis of a wide range of rabbinic sources relating to major concepts which influenced the development of Jewish and Christian ideology.

The book gives a special voice to the literay works of al-Tayyib Salih, the Arab writer who has spent most of his life in Britain but still prefers to write in Arabic.