27.3850, TOC: Journal of Semitic Studies 61 / 2 (2016)

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:51:33
From: Carolyn Napolitano [Carolyn.Napolitano at oup.com]
Subject: Journal of Semitic Studies Vol. 61, No. 2 (2016)

Publisher:	Oxford University Press
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Journal Title:  Journal of Semitic Studies 
Volume Number:  61 
Issue Number:  2 
Issue Date:  2016 

Main Text:  

Journal of Semitic Studies
Read Volume 61 Issue 2 online now at http://bit.ly/2bwZQA9 

Articles:

Whence Come Direct Object Markers in Northwest Semitic?
by Humphrey H. Hardy II
299-318 

Rereading the Inscriptions of the ‘Throne of Astarte’ and the Sidonian Obelisk
by Edward Lipiński
319-325 

The Development of Predicates with Prepositional Subjects in Hebrew
by Uri Mor and Na’ama Pat-El
327-346 

Burning Issues: mlk revisited
by Anthony J. Frendo
347-364 

The Meaning of Hebrew [image unavailable]
by A.A. Macintosh
365-387 

The Syntax of the Legal Metaphor in Hosea 2:4
by Stephen C. Russell
389-402 

The Fabulist’s Art: Some Brief Remarks on Solomon’s Lions (1 Kings 10:18-20)
With a Minor Reception History
by Daniel James Waller
403-411 

‘To Hear and to Accept’: A Word-Pair in the Tell Fakhariyah Bilingual
Inscription
by Laura Quick
413-429

Between Polis and Imperium: The Early Rabbinic Concept of Mĕdînâ
by Joshua I. Weinstein
431-448 

An Addition to The Christian-Palestinian Aramaic Literary Corpus: Logos XV of
Abba Isaiah of Scetis
by Alin Suciu
449-461

The Emergence of the Holy Man in Early Islamic Mysticism: The Myrtle in a
Muslim Woman’s Dream and its Late Antique Echoes
by Sara Sviri
463-495

Possible Midrashic Sources in Muqātil b. Sulaymān’s Tafsīr
by Haggai Mazuz
497-505

The Origin of the Neo-Aramaic Verb dʕr ‘To Return’ and its Cognates: A New
Proposal
by Hezy Mutzafi
507-525 

Reviews:

Dennis Pardee, The Ugaritic Texts and the Origins of West-Semitic Literary
Composition
Reviewed by Adrian H.W. Curtis

Moshe Bar-Asher, Studies in Classical Hebrew
Reviewed by Gary A. Rendsburg

Tania Notarius, The Verb in Archaic Biblical Poetry: A Discursive,
Typological, and Historical Investigation of the Tense System
Reviewed by Wilfred G.E. Watson

Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Historisches und biblisches Israel. Drei Überblicke zum
alten Testament
Reviewed by Philip R Davies

Dan Levene, Jewish Aramaic Curse Texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia: “May
These Curses Go Out and Flee”
Reviewed by Charles G. Häberl

Ra‘anan Boustan, Martha Himmelfarb and Peter Schäfer (eds), Hekhalot
Literature in Context: Between Byzantium and Babylonia
Reviewed by Annelies Kuyt

Ehud Krinis, God's Chosen People: Judah Halevi's Kuzari and the Shī‘ī Imām
Doctrine
Reviewed by Diana Lobel

Dean Phillip Bell (ed.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Jewish Studies
Reviewed by Daniel Garner

Denis Nosnitsin, Churches and Monasteries of Tǝgray: A Survey of Manuscript
Collections
Reviewed by Michael A. Knibb

Hezy Mutzafi, Comparative Lexical Studies in Neo-Mandaic
Reviewed by Charles Häberl

Eric Vallet, L’Arabie Marchande. Etat et Commerce sous les Sultans Rasūlides
du Yémen
Reviewed by G. Rex Smith

Ahmad Al-Jallad, An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions
Reviewed by G. Rex Smith

Vitaly Naumkin (corpus ed.) and Leonid Kogan (volume ed.), Corpus of Soqotri
Oral Literature
Reviewed by G. Rex Smith

Fabian Käs, Al-Maqrīzīs Traktat über die Mineralien: Kitāb al-Maqāṣid
al-saniyyah li-ma‘rifat al-aǧsām al-ma‘diniyyah
Reviewed by Oliver Kahl

Short Notices:
Terrance R. Wardlaw Jr, Elohim within the Psalms: Petitioning the Creator to
Order Chaos in Oral-Derived Literature
Reviewed by Wilfred G.E. Watson

W. Dennis Tucker Jr, Constructing and Deconstructing Power in Psalms 107-150
Reviewed by Wilfred G.E. Watson

Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford (ed.), The Shape and Shaping of the Book of Psalms:
The Current State of Scholarship
Reviewed by Wilfred G.E. Watson

Aaron D. Hornkohl, Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Language of the Book
of Jeremiah: The Case for a Sixth-Century Date of Composition
Reviewed by Jarod Jacobs

Read now at http://bit.ly/2bwZQA9

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Ling & Literature
                     Syntax
                     Translation

Subject Language(s): Akkadian (akk)
                     Aramaic, Official (arc)
                     Hebrew (heb)

Language Family(ies): Northwest Semitic
                      Semitic 
                      West Semitic 

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