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Biocultural diversity of common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) across Eurasia [PDF]
Little is known about how anthropogenic processes have affected the evolution of tree species with a long‐time‐scale history of human utilization such as common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.). In this study, we evaluated the impact of isolation by distance processes, landscape heterogeneity, and cultural boundaries
Paola Pollegioni +10 more
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The astronomical and calendrical calculations in the 6th Hymn de Crucifixione by Ephrem the Syrian in the old Babylonian, Jewish and Christian context [PDF]
the paper is focused on the astronomical and calendrical lore which the Syriac poet-theologian Ephrem the Syrian abundantly uses in his 6th hymn De crucifixione. In this hymn devoted to the interpretation of three days problem of Jesus’ resurrection, the
Sofia Fomicheva
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A Home for the ‘Wandering Aramean’—In Germany?
Migration to Germany has been a fact of life for the average German since the 1960s. Immigrants started arriving from countries like Turkey, Spain, Greece, or Italy as a post-war labor force was invited to Germany to address workforce shortages.
Elke B. Speliopoulos
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This paper deals with the “collections” of the Meccan Arabic lectionary (Syriac : qeryânâ) or Muhammad’s exegetical activity in it. In several passages of the Meccan lectionary, Muhammad appears as interpreting passages or logia of previous Scriptures ...
Claude Gilliot
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In these papers, the researchers attempt to stand up to the development of the linguistic significance of the individual Abd, relying on the central significance of Aramaic, Syriac, and Hebrew as the Arabic language and the marginal significance of the ...
Leila asadollahi, Massoud Fekri
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A Sureth (Christian North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic) version of an East-Syriac hymn on Simon Magus and Simon Peter in Rome and its late Classical Syriac Vorlage are here published for the first time. The text is part of a small group of hymns on Peter and Rome
Alessandro Mengozzi
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A Sureth Version of the East-Syriac Dialogue Poem of Mary and the Gardener
In the present paper, a Sureth version is published of the dialogue poem of Mary and the Gardener. As a first attempt to reconstruct the history of this text, the poetic version in the vernacular is compared with five manuscript witnesses of the ...
Alessandro Mengozzi
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St Sisinnius’ Legend in Folklore and Handwritten Traditions of Eurasia and Africa (Outcomes and Perspectives of Research) [PDF]
The article presents the main results of a group research entitled “St. Sisinnius’ Legend in Folklore and Written Traditions of the Near East, Balkans, and Eastern Europe” (2017). This research has allowed the discovery and analysis of different versions
Andrey L. Toporkov
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Reconsidering the Semantic Relationships of the Word “al-'Ālamīn” According to Component Analysis Method [PDF]
Questions are being asked about the term “al-'Ālamīn”, which have not yet received reasonable responses; e.g. “why has the root ‘'ilm’ (knowledge) been mentioned for the meanings of ‘peoples of the world’ or ‘worlds’?” Although Muslim philologists have ...
Saeed Shafiee
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Psalm 39 (LXX 38): A Retributive Psalm?
This paper is a contribution to the Festschrift for Prof. Phil Botha. As a teacher in Semitic Languages, he specialised in two corpora: poetry (Hebrew) and more specifically the Psalms, and Syriac, a prominent Aramaic dialect.
Johann Cook
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