The IOS Annual Volume 21: âCarrying a Torch to Distant Mountainsâ, brings forth cutting-edge studies devoted to a wide array of fields and disciplines of the Middle East. The three sectionsâthe Ancient Near East, Semitic Languages and Linguistics, and Arabic Language and Literatureâinclude sixteen articles. In the Ancient Near East section are studies devoted to Babylonian literature (Gabbay and Wasserman; Ayali-Darshan), history (Cohen and Torrecilla), and language (Zadok). The Semitic Languages and Linguistics section contains discussions about comparative SemiticsâEgyptian and Modern South Arabic (Borg; Cerqueglini), Aramaic dialects (Khan; Stadel), Palestinian Arabic (Arnold; Procházka), and Tigre and Ethiosemitic languages (Voigt). The final section of Arabic Language and Literature is devoted to Ê¿Arabiyya and its grammarians (Dror, Versteegh, Sheyhatovitch, Kasher, and Sadan).
Yoram Cohen, Ph.D. (2003), Harvard University, is Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. He has published four monographs on Hittite society, scribal schools at Emar, wisdom literature, 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 (Texte der Hethiter 29, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2015).
Letizia Cerqueglini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Pisa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, is Lecturer of Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She has published monographs and articles on Semitic languages, cognition, and culture, including Object-based Selection of Spatial Frames of Reference in aá¹£-á¹¢ÄniÊ Arabic (Pisa University Press, 2015).
Beata Sheyhatovitch, Ph.D. (2016), Tel Aviv University, is Lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. She has published a monograph on the distinctive terminology in Å arḥ al-KÄfiya by Raá¸Ä« l-DÄ«n al-ʾAstarÄbÄá¸Ä« and articles on the medieval Arabic linguistic tradition.
Editorial
Part 1 The Ancient Near East
1 âI Am Carrying a Torch to the Faraway Mountainsâ: An Old Babylonian Bilingual Personal Prayer and Its Textual Transmission
âUri Gabbay and Nathan Wasserman
2 The Campaign against the Suteans and the Project in The Land of MukiÅ¡: A Consideration of Letters RSO 23 28â36, and 39 from the House of Urtenu in Ugarit
âYoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla
3 The Editorial Technique of Resumptive Repetition: The Cosmogony and the Anthropogony in Enūma Eliš
âNoga Ayali-Darshan
4 On Aramaic Loanwords in Neo- and Late-babylonian Texts: Introduction and Semantic-Topical Taxonomy (Part One)
âRan Zadok
Part 2 Semitic Languages and Linguistics
5 Phonological Peculiarities of Palestinian Folksongs
âWerner Arnold
6 Is Old Egyptian dp.t, âShipâ, a Bronze Age Afroasiatic Isogloss? An Etymological and Archaeological Vignette
âAlexander Borg
7 Ancient Egyptian Words in Modern South Arabian Languages
âLetizia Cerqueglini
8 Remarks on the Christian Neo-aramaic Dialect of Shaqlawa
âGeoffrey Khan
9 The Arabic Dialects of the Jezreel Plain and the Hula Valley (Galilee): Grammatical Notes, Remarks on Linguistic Contact, and Texts
âStephan Procházka
10 The Loss of the Infinitive and Its Replacement by the Imperfect in Christian Palestinian Aramaic
âChristian Stadel
11 Some Remarks about Laryngeal Rules in Tigre
âRainer M. Voigt
Part 3 Arabic Language and Literature
12 Cognitive Verbs as a Strategy for Expressing Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in the QurʾÄn
âYehudit Dror
13 Redundance and Suppression According to SÄ«bawayhi and al-FarrÄʾ
âKees Versteegh
14 The Term fÄʾida in Pragmatic and Rhetorical Discussions by Arab Grammarians
âBeata Sheyhatovitch
15 How (Not) to Read Pedagogical Grammars of Arabic: The Case of the Subjunctive Mood
âAlmog Kasher
16 Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on the Structure of the Adverbial Accusative of Cause and Purpose (al-mafʿūl lahu) According to Arabic Grammarians
âArik Sadan
Index
Scholars of the Middle East, Afroasiatic and Semitic languages, ancient Near East, ancient Egypt, history and culture of the Mediterranean, literature, and religion.