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Chrześcijaństwo syryjskie w starożytnościw kontekście powstawania Gemary babilońskiej [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2012
The babylonian judaism, that has formed the babylonian gemara to the mishnah, came into contact mainly with the syriac christianity. The syriac language, which were used there belongs with mandaic and aramaic of the babylonian ...
Andrzej Mrozek
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The Process of Meaning-finding with the Approach of the Etymology of Words "The Meaning of the Word" rahū" in the Quran from View Point of Semitic Languages" [PDF]

پژوهش‌های ترجمه در زبان و ادبیات عربی, 2015
This paper seeks to put forward a new meaning of the word "rahū" in the verse “وَاتْرُکِ الْبَحْرَ رَهْوًا"(44:24). There are two meanings, "calm" and "cloven", mentioned for this word in dictionaries and interpretations of Quran.In this respect, the ...
Javad Asghari
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IN THE FOLDS OF TIME: RASHĪD AL‐DĪN ON THEORIES OF HISTORICITY

History and Theory, Volume 58, Issue 4, Page 20-42, December 2019., 2019
ABSTRACT By focusing on Rashīd al‐Dīn's (d. 718/1318) historiographical oeuvre and here in particular his “History of the World,” this article challenges the usual approach to his Jāmiʿ al‐tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles) and argues that his was a deeply pluralistic enterprise in a world with many centers, tremendous demographic change, high social ...
JUDITH PFEIFFER
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Simeon of Beth Arsham and Barḥadbshabba of Ḥalwān: two views on the “Cause of the foundation of the schools»” [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология
The article presents a comparative analysis of the writings of two Syriac authors belonging to the Church of Persia, who held divergent views on Christology and offered significantly different perspectives on the history of the Schools of Edessa and ...
Evgenii Zabolotnyi
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Fig leaves, bramble thorns and cedars of Lebanon: silent and talking plants in the Bible and beyond

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2016
A number of Hebrew and Aramaic texts in which trees and plants appear as speaking characters are here published in Italian translation: the parable of the trees in Judges 9, a haggadic expansion of Midrash Esther Rabbah upon Esther 5:14, a hymn inserted ...
Alessandro Mengozzi
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Servant Songs: Textual Witnesses [PDF]

Религия, церковь, общество, 2015
The following article looks over the textual witnesses from the co-called Servant songs. This name is used in Bible studies to refer to four texts from the Book of Isaiah (Isa 42:1–4; 49:1–6; 50:4–9; 52:13–53:12), which according to researchers was ...
Cyrill Andreevich von Buettner
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Relics of Syriac Magic: Another Syriac Bowl for Prwkzʿd br Kwmy and a Syriac Incantation Fragment in the British Museum

Folia Orientalia
The contribution features the first editions of two unpublished Syriac incantation texts: a bowl sold at a Christie’s auction in 1974 (present whereabouts unknown), and a fragment of a Syriac bowl housed in the British Museum and not included in the ...
Marco Moriggi
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Yazdandukht and Mar Qardagh: From the Persian martyr acts in Syriac to Sureth poetry on YouTube, via a historical novel in Arabic

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2020
Videos posted on YouTube show how stories of East-Syriac saints have found their way to a popular web platform, where they are re-told combining traditional genres with a culturally hybrid visual representation.
Alessandro Mengozzi
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The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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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
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