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A Diachronic and Areal Perspective on Subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
This thesis provides a diachronic and areal perspective on subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA), tracing its development from Late Antiquity to the present. The first two chapters outline the aim and scope of the thesis and also provide an introduction to the development of Syriac and NENA verbal forms; the use of punctuation ...
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Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq [PDF]
This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews.
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The complexity of the relationship of vocalisation signs of Semitic pointing systems
This article has a few goals. The first goal is to discover the development of Semitic pointing systems such as Babylonian Hebrew (both simple and complex), Tiberian Hebrew, Palestinian Hebrew, Samaritan Hebrew, Syriac (both Western [Jacobite] and ...
Philip Suciadi Chia
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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 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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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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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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