An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions
Title | An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions PDF eBook |
Author | Ahmad Al-Jallad |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 2015-03-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004289828 |
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The volume covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains an appendix of over 500 inscriptions and an annotated dictionary. The grammar is based on a corpus of 33,000 Safaitic inscriptions.
A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions
Title | A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions PDF eBook |
Author | Ahmad Al-Jallad |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2021-01-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004400427 |
A dictionary of the Safaitic inscriptions, containing more than 1400 lemmata.
Camels in the Biblical World
Title | Camels in the Biblical World PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Heide |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2021-07-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 164602169X |
Camels are first mentioned in the Bible as the movable property of Abraham. During the early monarchy, they feature prominently as long-distance mounts for the Queen of Sheba, and almost a millennium later, the Gospels tell us about the impossibility of a camel passing through a needle’s eye. Given the limited extrabiblical evidence for camels before circa 1000 BCE, a thorough investigation of the spatio-temporal history of the camel in the ancient Near and Middle East is necessary to understand their early appearance in the Hebrew Bible. Camels in the Biblical World is a two-part study that charts the cultural trajectories of two domestic species—the two-humped or Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) and the one-humped or Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius)—from the fourth through first millennium BCE and up to the first century CE. Drawing on archaeological camel remains, iconography, inscriptions, and other text sources, the first part reappraises the published data on the species’ domestication and early exploitation in their respective regions of origin. The second part takes a critical look at the various references to camels in the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels, providing a detailed philological analysis of each text and referring to archaeological data and zoological observations whenever appropriate. A state-of-the-art evaluation of the cultural history of the camel and its role in the biblical world, this volume brings the humanities into dialogue with the natural sciences. The novel insights here serve scholars in disciplines as diverse as biblical studies, (zoo)archaeology, history, and philology.
Semitic Languages in Contact
Title | Semitic Languages in Contact PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Butts |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 453 |
Release | 2015-09-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004300155 |
Semitic Languages in Contact contains twenty case studies analysing various contact situations involving Semitic languages. The languages treated span from ancient Semitic languages, such as Akkadian, Aramaic, Classical Ethiopic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Ugaritic, to modern ones, including languages/dialects belonging to the Modern Arabic, Modern South Arabian, Neo-Aramaic, and Neo-Ethiopian branches of the Semitic family. The topics discussed include writing systems, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. The approaches range from traditional philology to more theoretically-driven linguistics. These diverse studies are united by the theme of language contact. Thus, the volume aims to provide the status quaestionis of the study of language contact among the Semitic languages. With contributions from A. Al-Jallad, A. Al-Manaser, D. Appleyard, S. Boyd, Y. Breuer, M. Bulakh, D. Calabro, E. Cohen, R. Contini, C. J. Crisostomo, L. Edzard, H. Hardy, U. Horesh, O. Jastrow, L. Kahn, J. Lam, M. Neishtadt, M. Oren, P. Pagano, A. D. Rubin, L. Sayahi, J.Tubach, J. P. Vita, and T. Zewi.
Muḥammad and His Followers in Context
Title | Muḥammad and His Followers in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Ilkka Lindstedt |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2023-10-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004687130 |
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki Library.The book surveys and analyzes changes in religious groups and identities in late antique Arabia, ca. 300-700 CE. It engages with contemporary and material evidence: for example, inscriptions, archaeological remains, Arabic poetry, the Qurʾān, and the so-called Constitution of Medina. Also, it suggests ways to deal with the later Arabic historiographical and other literary texts. The issue of social identities and their processes are central to the study. For instance, how did Arabian ethnic and religious identities intersect on the eve of Islam? The book suggests that the changes in social groups were more piecemeal than previously thought.
The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Title | The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia PDF eBook |
Author | Ahmad Al-Jallad |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2022-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004504273 |
This book approaches the religion and rituals of the pre-Islamic Arabian nomads using the Safaitic inscriptions. Unlike Islamic-period literary sources, this material was produced by practitioners of traditional Arabian religion; the inscriptions are eyewitnesses to the religious life of Arabian nomads prior to the spread of Judaism and Christianity across Arabia. The author attempts to reconstruct this world using the original words of its inhabitants, interpreted through comparative philology, pre-Islamic and Islamic-period literary sources, and the archaeological context.
Cultural Heritage
Title | Cultural Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Hani Hayajneh |
Publisher | LIT Verlag |
Pages | 868 |
Release | 2023-03-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3643962525 |
Human heritage is an endless mine of knowledge, skills, ethos and accomplishments, which visualize and examine the power of human creativity and innovation throughout the history. The contributions cast an insight into the human psyche to perceive its Weltanschauung, and its way of thinking and making artefacts associated with knowledge, existence and identity in the context of other existing systems in the world. They demonstrate the diversity of topics as well as the state-of-the art of interdisciplinary approaches that participants of the Humboldt-Kolleg use in their research on cultural heritage, and confirm, once again, that the strengths of the Alexander von Humboldt Network should be celebrated and honoured. The present volume invites us to seek more novel research approaches that aim towards an understanding of the complex nature of human inheritance.