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This volume reflects the late Norman Calder's own interests and contributions. It includes articles by scholars who are similarly renowned for their sophisticated and challenging approaches to Arabic and Islamic texts. Also represented are his former students and colleagues working in the field of Rabbinic Studies, which informed his own work.

A fully annotated translation of a manual written in the 12th century AD for the practical use of the Islamic inspector of markets. The manual deals with a variety of professions, and explores ruses and tricks of the trade. The liveliness of description and anecdote and the concern with ordinary people makes for fascinating reading.

The current collective volume consists of more than 600 Hebrew terms in the field of medieval science, especially medicine which do not feature in the current dictionaries of the Hebrew language at all, or in an insufficient way. It is intended to ease the consultation of medieval Hebrew scientific texts in general and medical texts in particular.

This work provides the essential information on twenty-three previously uncatalogued Ethiopic manuscripts in England: fourteen in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University, two in the Cambridge University Library, three in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, and four from the private collection of Dr. Ian MacLennan (London).

A collection of papers from the 2009 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies conference, ranging across Middle Eastern history (both ancient and modern), culture, literature and language.

This volume brings together eight papers presented by a panel on Arabic linguistics at the 14th Italian Meeting of Afroasiatic Linguistics in 2011. They address multiple aspects of classical and colloquial Arabic: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology and lexicography, but also semantics and pragmatics, as well as logic and argumentation.

Quadriliteral verbs in Arabic add a new flexibility to the speakers of Arabic. The basic function of the expansions into quadrilateral verbs is to indicate intensity or repetition of ideas denoted by bi-radical or by triradical verbs. This study explores the procedures of the formation of quadrilateral verbs in Iraqi spoken Arabic.

Targum Jonathan is one of our most important sources for understanding how Jews read, interpreted, and used the Hebrew Bible in Late Antiquity and in subsequent generations. Through a detailed study of the extant medieval manuscripts of Targum Samuel this book explains how and why the text of Targum Jonathan changed over time.

This volume is part of a wider project aiming at mapping the technical medical terminology as it features in medieval Hebrew medical works. The volume covers Hebrew translations of Hippocrates' Medical Aphorisms, one of the most popular medical works in the ancient and medieval world.

This volume traces this history from Justinian-era monastic communities through Sassanid medical academies to the caliphal court at Baghdad by comparing the Syriac and Arabic translations of the Hippocratic Aphorisms, a venerable Greek introduction to the art of medicine, focusing on the work of the famous translator and physician Hunayn ibn Ishaq.

Over forty different features are discussed through a comparison between the 'biblical' scrolls and the other major witnesses to the Hebrew Bible.

Amongst other topics the essays pay attention to the Jewish Targums, to Biblical Studies, to Nabataean matters, to Early Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic, to Syriac sources, to Islamic traditions, and to aspects of Near Eastern archaeology.

This volume includes new analysis of perfectivity in language, showing how the Biblical Hebrew verb forms encode perfectivity and deals with modality within the approach of possible-world-semantics, showing that Biblical Hebrew verb forms encode modality as well.

This volume is the result of collaborative work conducted with a number of native speakers of the languages over several years. The volume presents a comparative cultural glossary of 345 head terms, which are given in the six Modern South Arabian languages.

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.

A major source for the medieval economic and social history of the Yemen in particular and of the Middle East in general. Of relevance to European medieval economic history.

This is the first English translation of the work of fourth-century theologian, Ephrem the Syrian, on the Diatessaron-a text woven from the four Gospels, which predates the earliest-known evidence of the official Syriac translation of the New Testament.

A collection of essays written in honour of Professor G. Rex Smith, arabist, historian, and scholar of the medieval history of the Yemen, on aspects of the pre-Islamic and Islamic history of Arabia and the Yemen written by a group of international scholars.

This volume is the outcome of two workshops held at the University of Salford: Relative clauses and attribution in Semitic (April 18th 2007) and Genitive constructions in Semitic: Comparative and diachronic perspectives (April 7th and 8th 2008).

This volume offers new insights into the origins of formal Jewish prayer, using Dead Sea Scrolls material and related texts. It also looks at the relationship between magic and prayer in Rabbinic thought. Modern Jewish prayer is examined from the point of view of Hasidic traditions and practices and there is a modern re-reading of the Haggadah.

The first full study of the important first century AD Nabataean inscriptions of Mada'in Salih in Saudi Arabia since the turn of the century, this unique and authoritative work incorporates fifty halftone illustrations of tomb inscriptions.

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.

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 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.