The IOS Annual Volume 23: “Drought Will Drive You Even Toward Your Foe”

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The IOS Annual volume 23: “Drought Will Drive You Even Toward Your Foe” brings forth studies devoted to a wide array fields and disciplines of the Middle East. The two sections – Ancient Near East and Semitics include six articles. The Ancient Near East contains three articles dealing with the history of Mesopotamia and ancient Syria (Steinkeller; Steinmayer; Cohen), and the second and concluding part of “On Aramaic Loanwords in Neo- and Late Babylonian Texts” (Zadok), which appeared in IOS 21. The Semitic section includes two articles. The first is about metaphors in the Bedouins' Poetry (Cerqueglini). The second is a study of the vocalization of guttural consonants in the Secunda (Maurizio)

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Yoram Cohen, Ph.D. (2003), Harvard University, is Professor of Assyriology and the Ancient Near East at Tel Aviv University. He has published four monographs on Hittite society, scribal schools at Emar, wisdom, 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 (2015).

Nathan Wasserman, Ph.D. (1993), The Hebrew University, is Professor of Assyriology at the Hebrew University. He specializes in Akkadian literature of the Old Babylonian period. He has published six monographs on the literature, history, and grammar of the Old Babylonian period.

Letizia Cerqueglini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Pisa/Ben-Gurion University, is Senior Lecturer of Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She has published monographs and articles on Semitic languages, cognition, and culture, including Space and Time in aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic. A Cross-Generational Study (2022).

Beata Sheyhatovitch, Ph.D. (2016), Tel Aviv University, is Senior Lecturer of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. She has published a monograph on the distinctive terminology in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī and articles on the medieval Arabic linguistic tradition.
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Part 1 The Ancient Near East



1 Urukagina’s Rise to Power
 Piotr Steinkeller

2 Samsuiluna and the Reconquest of Nippur
 Nathan Steinmeyer

3 The Statue of Idrimi and the Term mānaḫtu/mānaḫātu
 Yoram Cohen

4 On Aramaic Loanwords in Neo- and Late-Babylonian Texts: Morphophonological Classification, Documentary Distribution, General Evaluation, and Conclusions (Part Two)
 Ran Zadok

Part 2 Semitic Languages and Linguistics



5 The Way to the Rainy Mountains: Semantic Networks of Natural Metaphors in Najdi Poetry
 Letizia Cerqueglini

6 The Vocalization of Guttural Consonants in the Secunda and Other Hebrew Traditions
 Isabella Maurizio

Scholars of the Middle East, Afroasiatic and Semitic languages, ancient Near East, ancient Egypt, history and culture of the Mediterranean, literature, and religion.
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