Monday, April 28, 2025

Il Quartiere degli Artigiani a Calvatone. Gli scavi di Maria Teresa Grassi 2005/2013

Lorenzo Zamboni
Università degli Studi di Milano
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/cisalpinestudies.140  

Il volume è il risultato di anni di ricerche dirette da Maria Teresa Grassi nel vicus di Calvatone-Bedriacum. Tra il 2005 e il 2013 l’Università di Milano ha infatti indagato un settore dell’insediamento romano dove sono emersi i resti di un complesso produttivo posto tra due quartieri residenziali. I capitoli illustrano le evidenze principali di scavo e una selezione dei contesti e delle classi di materiali più significativi per ricostruire la vita e l’abbandono di un panificio del I secolo d.C. nel più ampio quadro dell’urbanistica del vicus e del popolamento della Cisalpina romana.

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Letture dell’antico, mito di Roma e retoriche antisemite in epoca fascista

Laura Mecella (a cura di)
Università degli Studi di Milano
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8419-2561
Marco Cuzzi (a cura di)
Università degli Studi di Milano
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9218-7559
Paolo Zanini (a cura di)
Università degli Studi di Milano
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2436-6085  
Accademici della GIL sfilano a torso nudo sugli spalti del Foro Mussolini, 17.03.1940. Foto: Archivio Storico Istituto Luce.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/scrittidistoria.176  

Il volume raccoglie gli atti di un convegno tenutosi presso il Dipartimento di Studi Storici dell’Università di Milano e realizzato nell’ambito del progetto PRIN 2017 Studiosi italiani di fronte alle leggi razziali (1938-1945): storici dell’an­ti­­chità e giuristi. Attraverso un serrato dialogo tra specialisti di varia formazione, l’incontro mirava principalmente ad enucleare gli intricati legami tra l’uso (o meglio, l’abuso) politico della storia antica da parte del fascismo e le aberrazioni teoriche che condus­se­ro alla for­mu­la­zione del Manifesto degli scienziati razzisti, con specifica attenzione al tema dell’antisemitismo. Pur nella diversità degli approcci, i saggi presentati concorrono a chiarire la duplice prospettiva attraverso cui l’eredità del mondo antico venne saldata alla questione razziale: da un lato, l’affannosa ricerca di radici illustri per l’antisemitismo moderno; dall’altro, la pretestuosa affermazione della primazia della razza italica, in virtù del suo glorioso passato, sulle nazioni concorrenti. Un lavoro corale che speriamo possa contribuire a una più profonda interpretazione della humus culturale in cui, in Italia, allignò l’esiziale germe del razzismo.

 

In copertina: Accademici della GIL sfilano a torso nudo sugli spalti del Foro Mussolini, 17.03.1940. Foto: Archivio Storico Istituto Luce

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Newly Open Access Journal: Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie (ZOrA)

Ansehen Bd. 16 (2023): Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie

Die Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie (ZOrA) enthält ausführliche und grundlegende Beiträge zu den neuesten internationalen Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Archäologie der Levante, Mesopotamiens und der Arabischen Halbinsel und möchte zudem überregionale Forschungsperspektiven stärker in den Vordergrund rücken. Das Publikationsorgan steht allen AutorInnen offen, die zur Archäologie und Geschichte der genannten Regionen beitragen möchten. Angenommen werden insbesondere „Synthesen". Zudem steht die ZOrA allen DAI-Projekten als Organ auch für ihre 'Berichte aus laufender Forschung' offenAktuelle Ausgabe

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DEIR EL-BAHARI XI: THE SOUTHERN ROOM OF AMUN IN THE TEMPLE OF HATSHEPSUT. vol.2 STUDIES OF DECORATION AND RITUAL FUNCTION

DEIR EL-BAHARI XI: THE SOUTHERN ROOM OF AMUN IN THE TEMPLE OF HATSHEPSUT. vol.2 STUDIES OF DECORATION AND RITUAL FUNCTION
Katarzyna Kapiec

386 pages, 
IKŚiO PAN/HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, Warsaw – Wiesbaden 2024

DE ISBN 978-3-447-12187-3 Dodaj do projektu Citavi wg ISBN
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

40 anni di scavi, ricerche e attività dell’Università degli Studi di Milano a Tarquinia: atti del convegno in omaggio a Maria Bonghi Jovino, Tarquinia 17-18 set-tembre 2022

Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni (a cura di)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5340-5082  

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/tarchna.191  

La festa del 17 e 18 settembre 2022 ha rappresentato un momento significativo di collaborazione tra l'Università di Milano, la città di Tarquinia e la comunità scientifica. Questo volume ne raccoglie gli esiti e celebra Maria Bonghi Jovino, professore emerito dell'Università di Milano e cittadina onoraria di Tarquinia, riconosciuta come "eroe fondatore" per la sua ricerca archeologica avviata quarant'anni fa. Il suo lavoro ha posto le basi per una ricerca fortemente caratterizzata in senso interdisciplinare e internazionale, sempre attenta alla sensibilizzazione del pubblico verso l'antica città etrusca. Il volume presenta una ricca panoramica su Tarquinia, spaziando dall'archeologia alla storia, alla religione etrusca, con particolare attenzione a tematiche come l’interdisciplinarità, l’internazionalizzazione e la terza missione, oltre che alla tutela del paesaggio culturale.

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Organizzare il tempo. Fasti e calendari a Roma e nell’Italia romana

Organizzare il tempo. Fasti e calendari a Roma e nell’Italia romana
Federico Russo (a cura di)
Università degli Studi di Milano
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2621-0551 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/consonanze.218

Nel mondo romano, il calendario scandiva i ritmi di una comunità e definiva su base quotidiana i momenti adatti per ciascuna attività, pubblica e privata. Nell’organizzazione dell’anno civico a Roma come nelle comunità locali dell’Italia romana, l’entrata in carica dei magistrati segnava la data d’inizio del nuovo anno e determinava così la sequenza delle occasioni pubbliche e private (in particolar modo di natura religiosa) che si sarebbero celebrate poi durante i dodici mesi successivi e che avrebbero segnato il susseguirsi delle stagioni. Gli studi raccolti in questo volume affrontano, da prospettive diverse e con approccio interdisciplinare, alcuni dei molteplici problemi posti dal calendario romano, affrontando temi come quello relativo alla data, sempre oscillante, dell’inizio dell’anno civico, o alla ricezione, a livello locale, di feste e riti celebrati nella città di Roma, o ancora soffermandosi su alcuni aspetti e rituali delle festività celebrate nel corso dell’anno e sulla loro declinazione letteraria. Si mostrerà in definitiva come l’organizzazione condivisa del tempo rappresentasse un aspetto imprescindibile della vita religiosa e della vita civica di una città.

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L’ imperatore, San Michele Arcangelo e la spada. Dialoghi iconografici e strategie figurative a difesa di Costantinopoli

Andrea Torno Ginnasi
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https://doi.org/10.54103/milanoup.198  

Il volume è dedicato all’origine celeste dell’autorità militare nel mondo bizantino attraverso l’esame del rapporto tra l’imperatore e l’Arcangelo Michele con attenzione per le testimonianze visive e per il loro addentellato ideologico e cerimoniale, con l’obiettivo di delineare i costanti “dialoghi iconografici” tra i due personaggi e di porre in luce le comuni “strategie figurative” adottate per la difesa dell’impero. Il filo conduttore è individuato nella spada, letta non come arma ma quale insegna del potere e simbolo della tutela celeste mediata dall’archistratega, protezione che, in seconda battuta, il sovrano estende ai territori su cui governa. Il volume consta di tre sezioni: la prima è dedicata all’imperatore, la seconda all’arcangelo, mentre la terza pone in dialogo diretto le due figure tramite l’esame delle immagini che esprimono le prerogative tutelari da loro condivise.

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Open Access Journal: Restauro Archeologico

 [First posted in AWOL 26 July 2017, updated (new URL's, host) 27 April 2025]

Restauro Archeologico
ISSN 1724-9686 (print)
ISSN 2465-2377 (online)
Restauro Archeologico (RA­) is a scientific international print and open access journal, issued every six months. RA publishes articles peer-reviewed – in Italian, English, Spanish, French and German, sulla concerning the knowledge, conservation, and valorisation of all endangered, neglected, or ruined architectural structures and aims to focus attention on the methodologies of study and intervention on architectural heritage in archaeological contexts or connected to them.
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November 26, 2024
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

Open Access Journal: Prometheus. Rivista di studi classici

 [First posted in AWOL 8 August 2013, updated 26 April 2025]

Prometheus: Rivista di studi classici
ISSN 0391-2698 (print)
ISSN 2281-1044 (online)
Fondata da Adelmo Barigazzi nel 1975, la rivista Prometheus si è dedicata programmaticamente alla ricerca scientifica sui testi letterari classici greci e latini, nella convinzione che uno studio analitico e filologicamente approfondito dei testi antichi possa giovare ancora fortemente alla formazione culturale dei giovani della nostra età.
La rivista si richiama alla più genuina tradizione fiorentina degli studi classici, che ebbe in Giorgio Pasquali un grande interprete del mondo antico, maestro impareggiabile di ricerca e di metodo. Si occupa quindi di testi sia greci che latini, considerati espressione di un'unica letteratura in due lingue, e si caratterizza per una vocazione squisitamente critico-testuale ed esegetica.
Ampio spazio viene dato da un lato agli studi sulla tradizione manoscritta, alla costituzione e alla critica del testo e, dall'altro, all'analisi filologica, all'interpretazione e al commento degli scritti, per una loro valorizzazione e comprensione letteraria storicamente inquadrata.

Publication of theis journal ceased after  2023

Current Issue

 Vol 49 2023 XLIX - 2023

Articoli

Lettere di Adelmo Barigazzi a Giorgio Pasquali (in appendice: Barigazzi durante la guerra… e il Diario di Bianca Ceva)
Augusto Guida
5-19
An Unknown Game from Kerameikos
Andreas Katsouris
20-22
Celebrando a Dioniso en las cumbres del Parnaso: las Tíades
Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal
23-44
A Possible New Fragment of Euripides
Konstantine Panegyres
45-46
Cinque note al De Mysteriis di Andocide
Lorenzo Ferroni
47-58
L’Economico di Senofonte tra Giovanni Aurispa e Jean Jouffroy
Michele Bandini
59-70
L’Ettore di Astidamante il Giovane: una tragedia postclassica
Paolo Carrara
71-79
Platone Comico, fr. 199.2 K.-A.
Giacomo Mancuso
80-84
Euforione, fr. 116.3 Lightfoot, e la Prima Guerra Sacra
Enrico Magnelli
85-90
Su un epigramma di Euforione: AP 6.279 = fr. 1 Lightfoot pp. 91-97
Claudia Nuovo
91-97
Akestondas e il libro di pelle nel II sec. a.C. (AP 6.295)
Maria Jagoda Luzzatto
98-104
L’epigramma di Meleagro per Eraclito
Angelo Casanova
105-112
Alle origini della poesia paesaggistica latina: Ennio e il frammento tragico incerto 133-7 R.2-3
Rita Degl’Innocenti Pierini
113-126
Orazio, Serm. 1.4: le credenziali del Satirico
Franco Bellandi
127-144
Erode e i Vangeli dell’infanzia: le questioni aperte
Arnaldo Marcone
145-156
In triduo die festa (Petr. Sat. 45.4): ipotesi sulla data della cena di Trimal¬chione
Laura Bocciolini Palagi
157-167
Il sorriso delle Furie: un’innovazione di Stazio? (con uno sguardo al Prome¬teo di Monti)
Lorenzo Colle
168-178
Un improbabile recupero testuale: vicisti tra Cicerone e Girolamo
Sergio Audano
179-187
Sul testo e i modelli di Aviano, Fab. 3
Giovanni Zago
188-195
L’ultima ambasceria: Simmaco a Milano
Maria Lubello
196-209
Messaggi politici dalle coppie plutarchee Licurgo-Numa e Teseo-Romolo
Paolo Desideri
210-222
La Isla de Crono y los habitantes del Gran Continente: notas críticas a Plu., de facie 941α y 941b-c
Aurelio Pérez Jiménez
223-237
Una correzione in Flegonte di Tralle, De Mir. 144-145?
Giulia Gollo
238-241
Menander and Procopius Caesariensis
Konstantine Panegyres
242-243
Tre note allo Ps.-Scilace
Carlo M. Lucarini
244-249
Dittico Stobeano
Tiziano Dorandi
250-257
Alcune note ad un anonimo proemio bizantino su Agata, la colomba
Augusto Guida
258-260
Su alcuni epigrammi greci di Lattanzio Tolomei
Gabriele Burzacchini
261-268
Bibliografia di Adelmo Barigazzi completa e corretta
Redazione
269-284

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Open Access Monograph Series: Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures

 [First posted in AWOL 26 October 2023, updated 26 April 2025]
 
ISSN Print: 2632-6906
ISSN Digital: 2632-6914
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Cambridge Semitic Language and Cultures is a new book series in collaboration with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. This series includes philological and linguistic studies of Semitic languages, editions of Semitic texts, and studies of Semitic cultures. Titles in the series will cover all periods, traditions and methodological approaches to the field. The editorial board comprises Geoffrey Khan, Aaron Hornkohl, and Esther-Miriam Wagner.

This is the first Open Access book series in the field; it combines the high peer-review and editorial standards with the fair Open Access model offered by OBP. Open Access (that is, making texts free to read and reuse) helps spread research results and other educational materials to everyone everywhere, not just to those who can afford it or have access to well-endowed university libraries. Copyrights stay where they belong, with the authors. Authors are encouraged to secure funding to offset the publication costs and thereby sustain the publishing model, but if no institutional funding is available, authors are not charged for publication. Any grant secured covers the actual costs of publishing and is not taken as profit. In short: we support publishing that respects the authors and serves the public interest.

Editorial Board
  • Geoffrey Khan (General Editor)
  • Aaron Hornkohl (Associate Editor)
  • Esther-Miriam Wagner (Associate Editor)
Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures—A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan: Volume 1: Hebrew and the Wider Semitic World - cover image
  • Asian Studies
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • Linguistics
  • Literature

Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures—A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan: Volume 1: Hebrew and the Wider Semitic World

  • Aaron D. Hornkohl
  • Nadia Vidro
  • Janet C.E. Watson
  • Eleanor Coghill
  • Magdalen M. Connolly
  • Benjamin M. Outhwaite
Geoffrey Khan’s pioneering scholarship has transformed the study of Semitic languages, literatures, and cultures, leaving an indelible mark on fields ranging from Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic dialectology to medieval manuscript traditions and linguistic typology. This Festschrift, celebrating a distinguished career that culminated in his tenure (2012–2025) as Regius Professor of Hebrew in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, brings together contributions from a vast and representative array of scholars—retired, established, and up and coming—whose work has been influenced by his vast intellectual legacy.
Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures—A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan: Volume 2: The Medieval World, Judaeo-Arabic, and Neo-Aramaic - cover image
  • Asian Studies
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • Linguistics
  • Literature

Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures—A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan: Volume 2: The Medieval World, Judaeo-Arabic, and Neo-Aramaic

  • Aaron D. Hornkohl
  • Nadia Vidro
  • Janet C.E. Watson
  • Eleanor Coghill
  • Magdalen M. Connolly
  • Benjamin M. Outhwaite
Geoffrey Khan’s pioneering scholarship has transformed the study of Semitic languages, literatures, and cultures, leaving an indelible mark on fields ranging from Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic dialectology to medieval manuscript traditions and linguistic typology. This Festschrift, celebrating a distinguished career that culminated in his tenure (2012–2025) as Regius Professor of Hebrew in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, brings together contributions from a vast and representative array of scholars—retired, established, and up and coming—whose work has been influenced by his vast intellectual legacy.
Two Early Byzantine Bible Manuscripts in Christian Palestinian Aramaic: Codex Climaci Rescriptus II & XI - cover image
  • Archaeology and Religion
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • Linguistics

Two Early Byzantine Bible Manuscripts in Christian Palestinian Aramaic: Codex Climaci Rescriptus II & XI

  • Kim Phillips
Despite the ubiquitous use of Greek by the Christian church of the late antique Southern Levant, many Christians in the region also—or only—spoke Aramaic. Today, this dialect, known as Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA), is relatively sparsely attested in the form of regional inscriptions and, particularly, in the form of vernacular translations of Greek biblical, liturgical and theological texts. These translations survive predominantly as undertexts within palimpsest manuscripts. Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCR) is one of the most important palimpsest manuscript sources for the recovery of CPA texts.
New Words to Old Tunes: Genres and Metrics of Lebanese Zajal Poetry - cover image
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • Literature

New Words to Old Tunes: Genres and Metrics of Lebanese Zajal Poetry

  • Adnan Haydar
New Words to Old Tunes: Genres and Metrics of Lebanese Zajal Poetry introduces the rich tradition of Lebanese oral poetry, offering an in-depth study and analysis of its metrics and genres. It presents a novel framework for the proper scansion of meters and emphasises the previously overlooked roles of musical and poetic stress. It details nearly twenty zajal genres, including popular songs that use zajal metrics, and integrates musical notations and web-streamed audio links to enrich the reader’s experience.
Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabia: Volume 1: Regional Studies - cover image
  • Asian Studies
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • History
  • Literature

Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabia: Volume 1: Regional Studies

  • Janet C.E. Watson
  • Miranda J. Morris
  • Erik Anonby
Traditional livelihoods and the ecosystems that sustain them are dying out around the world. This book is a collection of research on the relationships between people, their environment, their expertise and their languages along the ecologically fragile coasts of the Arabian Peninsula. These studies are the outcome of many years of collaborative fieldwork with local communities in three main regions of southern and eastern Arabia: the Musandam Peninsula, Dhofar and al-Mahrah, and the island of Soqotra. Bringing together oral literature, traditional scientific knowledge, and marine subsistence at the peripheries of the Arabian seaboard, the volume makes a major contribution to the documentation of the indigenous Modern South Arabian languages (MSAL), regional Arabic, and the Kumzari language, as well as to a greater understanding of their speakers’ mastery in harvesting the seas.
The Samaritan Pentateuch: An English Translation with a Parallel Annotated Hebrew Text - cover image
  • Archaeology and Religion
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures

The Samaritan Pentateuch: An English Translation with a Parallel Annotated Hebrew Text

  • Moshe Florentin
  • Abraham Tal
This new translation into English seeks to introduce the reader to the character of the Samaritan version of the Pentateuch, while emphasising the fundamental differences between it and the Masoretic version. The translation is based on a grammatical analysis of each and every word in the text according to its oral pronunciation, informed by examination of the Samaritan translations into Aramaic and Arabic as well as other Samaritan and non-Samaritan sources.
Arabic in Context: Essays on Language, Dialects, and Culture in Honour of Martin R. Zammit - cover image
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • Linguistics

Arabic in Context: Essays on Language, Dialects, and Culture in Honour of Martin R. Zammit

  • Anthony J. Frendo
  • Kurstin Gatt
This Festschrift, Arabic in Context, is a tribute to the remarkable scholarly legacy of the Reverend Professor Martin R. Zammit. It celebrates his extensive contributions to the fields of Semitic Studies, Arabic linguistics, and comparative Semitic philology.
Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew - cover image
  • Archaeology and Religion
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • Linguistics

Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew

  • Aaron D. Hornkohl
According to the standard periodisation of ancient Hebrew, the division of Biblical Hebrew as reflected in the Masoretic tradition is basically dichotomous: pre-exilic Classical Biblical Hebrew (CBH) versus post-Restoration Late Biblical Hebrew (LBH). Within this paradigm, the chronolectal unity of CBH is rarely questioned—this despite the reasonable expectation that the language of a corpus encompassing traditions of various ages and comprising works composed, edited, and transmitted over the course of centuries would show signs of diachronic development. From the perspective of historical evolution, CBH is remarkably homogenous. Within this apparent uniformity, however, there are indeed signs of historical development, sets of alternant features whose respective concentrations seem to divide CBH into two sub-chronolects. The most conspicuous typological division that emerges is between the CBH of the Pentateuch and that of the relevant Prophets and Writings. The present volume investigates a series of features that distinguish the two ostensible CBH sub-chronolects, weighs alternative explanations for distribution patterns that appear to have chronological significance, and considers broader implications for Hebrew diachrony and periodisation and for the composition of the Torah.
Diversity across the Arabian Peninsula: Language, Culture, Nature - cover image
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • History
  • Linguistics

Diversity across the Arabian Peninsula: Language, Culture, Nature

  • Fabio Gasparini
  • Kamala Russell
  • Janet C.E. Watson
This edited volume brings together a diverse and rich set of contributions on the Arabian Peninsula. Ranging from history, field linguistics, and cultural studies these essays address the diversity of languages, ways of life, and natural environments that have marked the region throughout its history.
The Verb in Classical Hebrew: The Linguistic Reality behind the Consecutive Tenses - cover image
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • Linguistics

The Verb in Classical Hebrew: The Linguistic Reality behind the Consecutive Tenses

  • Bo Isaksson
The consecutive tenses are fundamental in all descriptions of Classical Hebrew grammar. They are even basic to the textbooks on Biblical Hebrew. Being fundamental in the verbal system, and part of any beginner’s grammar, they pose a serious problem to a linguistic understanding of the verbal system, since grammars describe an alternation of ‘forms’ or ‘tenses’ in double pairs: wayyiqṭol alternates with its ‘equivalent’ qaṭal, and wə-qaṭal alternates with its ‘equivalent’ yiqṭol. This ‘enigma’ in the verbal system is handled in the book by recognising that the alternation of the consecutive tenses with other tenses, in the reality of the text, represents a linking of clauses. The ‘consecutive tenses’ are clause-types with a natural language connective wa- directly followed by a finite verbal morpheme, a type of clause that expressed continuity in the earliest stage of Semitic. The commonly held assumption that there is a special ‘consecutive waw’ is unwarranted. The use of the ‘consecutive’ clause-types in order to express discourse continuity indicates that Classical Hebrew has retained the old unmarked declarative word order of Semitic syntax. Seen in the light of recent research on the Tiberian reading tradition, the ‘consecutive’ wayyiqṭol can be analysed as a retention of the old Semitic past perfective *wa-yaqtul, which was pronounced wa-yiqṭol in Classical Hebrew. The ‘consecutive’ wə-qāṭal (pronounced wa-qaṭal in the classical language) constitutes the result of an internal Hebrew development into a construction (in the sense of Joan Bybee) already foreshadowed in the earliest Northwest Semitic languages. The book understands the ‘consecutive tenses’ as discourse continuity clauses, which typically form chains of main line clauses. Such chains can be interrupted by other types of clauses. This interruption is a clause linking that receives special attention in the interpretation of the Classical Hebrew verbal system. Chapter six presents a regenerated text linguistics founded on the new terminology.
An Annotated Corpus of Three Hundred Proverbs, Sayings, and Idioms in Eastern Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t - cover image
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • Linguistics

An Annotated Corpus of Three Hundred Proverbs, Sayings, and Idioms in Eastern Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t

  • Giuliano Castagna
  • Suhail al-Amri
This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern South Arabian sub-branch of Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.
Roles and Relations in Biblical Law: A Study of Participant Tracking, Semantic Roles, and Social Networks in Leviticus 17-26 - cover image
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  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • Law

Roles and Relations in Biblical Law: A Study of Participant Tracking, Semantic Roles, and Social Networks in Leviticus 17-26

  • Christian Canu Højgaard
Leviticus 17–26, an ancient law text known as the Holiness Code, prescribes how particular persons are to behave in concrete, everyday situations. The addressees of the law text must revere their parents, respect the elderly, fear God, take care of their fellow, provide for the sojourner, and so on. The sojourner has his own obligations, as do the priests. Even God is said to behave in various ways towards various persons. Thus, the law text forms an intricate web of persons and interactions.
Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia - cover image
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  • History

Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia

  • Geoffrey Khan
This volume presents an edition of a corpus of Arabic documents data-ble to the 11th and 12th centuries AD that were discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society at the site of the Nubian fortress Qaṣr Ibrīm (situated in the south of modern Egypt).
A Grammar of the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Gabes - cover image
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A Grammar of the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Gabes

  • Wiktor Gębski
This volume undertakes a linguistic exploration of the endangered Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Gabes, a coastal city situated in Southern Tunisia. Belonging to the category of sedentary North African dialects, this variety is now spoken by a dwindling number of native speakers, primarily in Israel and France. Given the imminent extinction faced by many modern varieties of Judaeo-Arabic, including Jewish Gabes, the study's primary goal is to document and describe its linguistic nuances while reliable speakers are still accessible. Data for this comprehensive study were collected during fieldwork in Israel and France between December 2018 and March 2022.
Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World - cover image
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  • History
  • Literature

Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World

  • Teresa Bernheimer
  • Ronny Vollandt
Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Among the most intriguing are synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other. To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what one can call management of knowledge in a time before our own.
The Standard Language Ideology of the Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians of the ʿAbbasid Period - cover image
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The Standard Language Ideology of the Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians of the ʿAbbasid Period

  • Benjamin Paul Kantor
In the present book we survey six specific characteristics of a ‘standard language ideology’ that appear in both the writings of the Hebrew grammarians who wrote in Judeo-Arabic and the Arabic grammarians during the ʿAbbasid period. Such striking lines of linguistic-ideological similarity suggest that it may not have been only grammatical concepts or literary genres that the medieval Hebrew grammarians inherited from the Arabic grammatical tradition, but a way of thinking about language as well.
Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text - cover image
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  • Linguistics

Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text

  • William A. Ross
  • Elizabeth Robar
This volume is the result of the 2021 session of the Linguistics and the Biblical Text research group of the Institute for Biblical Research, which addresses the history, relevance, and prospects of broad theoretical linguistic frameworks in the field of biblical studies. Cognitive Linguistics, Functional Grammar, generative linguistics, historical linguistics, complexity theory, and computational analysis are each allotted a chapter, outlining the key theoretical commitments of each approach, their major concepts and/or methods, and their important contributions to contemporary study of the biblical text.
The Linguistic Classification of the Reading Traditions of Biblical Hebrew: A Phyla-and-Waves Model - cover image
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The Linguistic Classification of the Reading Traditions of Biblical Hebrew: A Phyla-and-Waves Model

  • Benjamin Paul Kantor
In recent decades, the field of Biblical Hebrew philology and linguistics has been witness to a growing interest in the diverse traditions of Biblical Hebrew. Indeed, while there is a tendency for many students and scholars to conceive of Biblical Hebrew as equivalent with the Tiberian pointing of the Leningrad Codex as it appears in Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), there are many other important reading traditions attested throughout history.
An Introduction to Andalusi Hebrew Metrics - cover image
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An Introduction to Andalusi Hebrew Metrics

  • José Martínez Delgado
Delgado presents his view of Andalusi Hebrew metrics, as encountered in medieval manuals of Arabic and Hebrew metrics and scattered notes in the works of Andalusi Hebrew philologists. Whilst twentieth-century scholars spoke about the adaptation of Arabic metrics to Hebrew, he instead approaches these compositions by Andalusi Jews (10th-13th c.) as Arabic metrics written in Hebrew, thus emphasising how Hebrew poetry of the Andalusi Jews can help us to understand the general evolution of Arabic strophic poetry, and its experimental evolution, which is quite unlike classical and strophic Arabic poetry.
The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew - cover image
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The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew

  • Aaron D. Hornkohl
This volume explores an underappreciated feature of the standard Tiberian Masoretic tradition of Biblical Hebrew, namely its composite nature. Focusing on cases of dissonance between the tradition’s written (consonantal) and reading (vocalic) components, the study shows that the Tiberian spelling and pronunciation traditions, though related, interdependent, and largely in harmony, at numerous points reflect distinct oral realisations of the biblical text.
The Bible in the Bowls: A Catalogue of Biblical Quotations in Published Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Magic Bowls - cover image
  • Archaeology and Religion
  • Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
  • Linguistics

The Bible in the Bowls: A Catalogue of Biblical Quotations in Published Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Magic Bowls

  • Daniel James Waller
The Bible in the Bowls represents a complete catalogue of Hebrew Bible quotations found in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct epigraphic witnesses to the Hebrew Bible from late antique Babylonia, the bowls are uniquely placed to contribute to research on the (oral) transmission of the biblical text in late antiquity; the pre-Masoretic Babylonian vocalisation tradition; the formation of the liturgy and the early development of the Jewish prayer book; the social locations of biblical knowledge in late antique Babylonia and socio-religious typologies of the bowls; and the dynamics of scriptural citation in ancient Jewish magic.
Studies in the Masoretic Tradition of the Hebrew Bible - cover image
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  • Linguistics

Studies in the Masoretic Tradition of the Hebrew Bible

  • Daniel J. Crowther
  • Aaron D. Hornkohl
  • Geoffrey Khan
This volume brings together papers on topics relating to the transmission of the Hebrew Bible from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period. We refer to this broadly in the title of the volume as the ‘Masoretic Tradition’. The papers are innovative studies of a range of aspects of this Masoretic tradition at various periods, many of them presenting hitherto unstudied primary sources.
Diachronic Variation in the Omani Arabic Vernacular of the Al-ʿAwābī District: From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the Present Day - cover image
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Diachronic Variation in the Omani Arabic Vernacular of the Al-ʿAwābī District: From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the Present Day

  • Roberta Morano
In this monograph, Roberta Morano re-examines one of the foundational works of the Omani Arabic dialectology field, Carl Reinhardt’s Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ‘Oman und Zanzibar (1894). This German-authored work was prolific in shaping our knowledge of Omani Arabic during the twentieth century, until the 1980s when more recent linguistic studies on the Arabic varieties spoken in Oman began to appear.
Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini: A Critical Edition with English Translation - cover image
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Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini: A Critical Edition with English Translation

  • David Torollo
This groundbreaking new work is the first full critical edition and English translation of the Hebrew book *Sefer ha-Pardes* [The Book of the Orchard], written at the end of the thirteenth century by the Provençal Jewish author Jedaiah ha-Penini.
Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 1 - cover image
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  • Folklore and Ethnology
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Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 1

  • Geoffrey Khan
  • Masoud Mohammadirad
  • Dorota Molin
  • Paul M. Noorlander
This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews.
Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 2 - cover image
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  • Folklore and Ethnology
  • Linguistics
  • Literature

Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 2

  • Geoffrey Khan
  • Masoud Mohammadirad
  • Dorota Molin
  • Paul M. Noorlander
This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews.
The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho - cover image
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  • Folklore and Ethnology
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The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho

  • Oz Aloni
Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community’s oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale.
Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew - cover image
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  • Linguistics

Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew

  • Nick Posegay
This book investigates the theories behind Semitic vocalisation and vowel phonology in the early medieval Middle East, tracing their evolution to identify points of intellectual contact between Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew linguists before the twelfth century.
A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic - cover image
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A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic

  • Esther-Miriam Wagner
This volume is the first linguistic work to focus exclusively on varieties of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Arabic in the Ottoman Empire of the 15th to the 20th centuries, and present Ottoman Arabic material in a didactic and easily accessible way.
Diversity and Rabbinization: Jewish Texts and Societies between 400 and 1000 CE - cover image
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Diversity and Rabbinization: Jewish Texts and Societies between 400 and 1000 CE

  • Gavin McDowell
  • Ron Naiweld
  • Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period.
New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew - cover image
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New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew

  • Aaron D. Hornkohl
  • Geoffrey Khan
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers in the fields of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew that advance the field by the philological investigation of primary sources and the application of cutting-edge linguistic theory. These include contributions by established scholars and by students and early career researchers.
The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands: A Representative of ‘Aǧā’ib Literature in Syriac - cover image
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The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands: A Representative of ‘Aǧā’ib Literature in Syriac

  • Sergey Minov
This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands.
Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic - cover image
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Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

  • Geoffrey Khan
  • Paul M. Noorlander
The papers in this volume represent the full range of research that is currently being carried out on Neo-Aramaic dialects. They advance the field in numerous ways. In order to allow linguists who are not specialists in Neo-Aramaic to benefit from the papers, the examples are fully glossed.
Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg - cover image
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Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg

  • Adang Camilla
  • Bruno Chiesa
  • Omar Hamdan
  • Wilferd Madelung
  • Sabine Schmidtke
  • Jan Thiele
This timely volume presents, for the first time, edited fragments of six texts by adherents of the Muʿtazila, a school of rational theology that emerged in the eighth century CE, including Karaite copies and recensions of works by Muslim authors, notably ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadhānī and ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿīd al-Labbād, as well as original Jewish Muʿtazilī treatises. The collection is concluded by an anonymous Rabbanite refutation of the highly influential polemical tract against Judaism, entitled Ifḥām al-yāhūd.
Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions - cover image
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Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions

  • Aaron D. Hornkohl
  • Geoffrey Khan
This volume brings together papers relating to the pronunciation of Semitic languages and the representation of their pronunciation in written form. The papers focus on sources representative of a period that stretches from late antiquity until the Middle Ages. A large proportion of them concern reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew, especially the vocalisation notation systems used to represent them. Also discussed are orthography and the written representation of prosody.
Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew - cover image
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Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew

  • Shai Heijmans
This volume presents a collection of articles centring on the language of the Mishnah and the Talmud – the most important Jewish texts (after the Bible), which were compiled in Palestine and Babylonia in the latter centuries of Late Antiquity. Despite the fact that Rabbinic Hebrew has been the subject of growing academic interest across the past century, very little scholarship has been written on it in English.
The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1 - cover image
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The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1

  • Geoffrey Khan
This book presents the current state of knowledge of the Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew and a full edition of one of the key medieval sources, Hidāyat al-Qāriʾ ‘The Guide for the Reader’, by ʾAbū al-Faraj Hārūn. There is also an accompanying oral performance of samples of the reconstructed pronunciation by Alex Foreman.
The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 2 - cover image
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The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 2

  • Geoffrey Khan
This book presents the current state of knowledge of the Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew and a full edition of one of the key medieval sources, Hidāyat al-Qāriʾ ‘The Guide for the Reader’, by ʾAbū al-Faraj Hārūn. There is also an accompanying oral performance of samples of the reconstructed pronunciation by Alex Foreman.
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