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Old Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic : some reflections on language history [PDF]
, 2010 Aramaic is not among the oldest Semitic languages in a strictly chronological sense, but among those languages which are still spoken today, it has the longest continuous written tradition.
Jastrow, Otto
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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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Aksum and the Bible: Old Assumptions and New Perspectives
Aethiopica, 2019 The Aksumite Bible, as a cultural product of Late Antiquity, is still relatively obscure. Thus, in spite of the most recent advances in the field of Ethiopian studies—notably, the new radiocarbon dating of Gärima I and Gärima III Gospels—old scholarly ...
Pierluigi Piovanelli
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Language and identity in the Assyrian diaspora [PDF]
, 2001 published or submitted for publicationis peer ...
McClure, Erica F.
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Time to Proficiency in Young English Learners and Factors That Affect Progress
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 695-729, June 2025.Abstract We investigated the time it takes 54,146 English learners (ELs) to attain English proficiency as they progressed from age 5 to 11 on average (Kindergarten through fifth grade in the United States). We also examine to what extent the time‐to‐proficiency estimate is affected by child‐internal and child‐external factors, including primary ...
Xiaowan Zhang, Paula Winke
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New Inscriptions in Aramaic/Early Syriac and Greek from the Cemeteries of Edessa
Anatolia Antiqua, 2020 An editio princeps of new inscriptions in Aramaic/Early Syriac andGreek from the Cemeteries of ...
Desreumaux, Alain, Jacques Paul +4 more
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Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 815-832, October 2024.Abstract This essay attempts to address a simple question: what does it mean to hear God? So much hangs upon learning something about hearing God: revelation, salvation, formation, vocation and mission, for example. What is the relationship then between hearing and knowing God?
Graham Ward
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Lebanese Phoenicianism: Rebutting Anthony Smith's Ethno‐Symbolism
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 118-128, September 2024.Abstract Examining national awakening in early twentieth‐century Lebanon tests the validity of Anthony D. Smith's ethno‐symbolism, which argues that modern national movements arise from older or ancient ethnic cores, which Smith calls ethnies. Since ethno‐symbolism contradicts Eric Hobsbawm's notion of an “invented tradition,” contrasting Smith with ...
Alexander Maxwell, David Hannah
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Between typology and diachrony : some formal parallels in Hebrew and Maltese [PDF]
, 2007 Hebrew and Maltese are obliquely related members of the Semitic language family. Past comparative research inspired by Bible translation highlighted in atomistic fashion a number of common traits in these two languages.
Borg, Alexander
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Perspectives from comparisons of the Hebrew l-suffix with the Shona h-suffix features
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 The ethical dative or dativus ethicus is a feature used with certain verbs in Biblical Hebrew, which, however, has continued to pose difficulties to grammarians as to its syntactic and semantic references.
Godwin Mushayabasa
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