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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

The meaning of hebraistic terms as expressed in biblical Greek

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The term Hebraisti, a non-Greek expression written in Greek letters and found in both the Old and New Testament Scriptures, has been consistently shown to refer specifically to the Hebrew language. In contrast, the term Suristi is used to denote Aramaic.
Muner Dalimana, Paulus S. Purwoko, David Ming, Kristian Sugiyarto   +3 more
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Language and identity in the Assyrian diaspora [PDF]

, 2001
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McClure, Erica F.
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The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
wiley   +1 more source

Translating the field

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey
Borut Telban, Ute Eickelkamp
wiley   +1 more source

Letters of Kings about Votive Offerings, The God of Israel and the Aramaic Document in Ezra 4:8–6:18

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2008
Building on Bill’s Arnold’s thesis that the presence of Aramaic in Ezra presents a shift in perspective to an external point of view, Joshua Berman has theorized that Ezra 4:8—6:18 presents a narrator who is speaking from a gentile point of view as ...
Andrew E. Steinmann
doaj   +1 more source

Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives in Neo-Aramaic. Towards the creation of a simple determiner

RiCognizioni, 2014
This paper focuses on the grammaticalization of adnominal demonstratives towards simple determiners in Neo-Aramaic, a dialectal cluster belonging to the Semitic family.
Fabio Gasparini
doaj   +1 more source

Proposal to add the Samaritan alphabet to the BMP of the UCS [PDF]

, 2008
This is a proposal to encode the Samaritan script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The script was published in Unicode Standard version 5.2 in October 2009. Samaritan is used to write Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic. It is
Everson, Michael, Shoulson, Mark
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 240-256, March 2026.
Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
wiley   +1 more source

Proposal for encoding the Palmyrene script in the SMP of the UCS [PDF]

, 2010
This is a proposal to encode the Palmyrene script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. Palmyrene was published in Unicode Standard version 7.0 in June 2014.
Everson, Michael
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