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Yathrib Jews’ Language(s): A Study Based on Authentic Ḥadiṯs
A controversial topic of research was the language of the Jews of Yathrib, this research tries to shed light on the controversial issue. Muslim and non-muslim scholars give different explanations.
Ahlam Sbaihat, Nama' Albanna
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Aramaic in the Gulf:Towards a Corpus
Whereas twenty-five years ago hardly any Aramaic was known from the pre-Islamic Gulf, we now have over twenty inscriptions in Aramaic of varying length and from different Gulf states, plus many coins.
Bin Seray, H., Healey, J. F.; id_orcid
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“Oriental” Churches of Levant and Mesopotamia in Continuing Social Fragmentation
In the present difficult circumstances in the Middle East, the position of the so-called Oriental Churches, which is united by the similarity of the liturgical language, the language of the patristic and historical heritage – Syriac, is indicative.
A. V. SARABIEV
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An Investigation of Refusal Strategies as Used by Bahdini Kurdish and Syriac Aramaic Speakers
For the purpose of achieving a successful communication, issues such as the appropriateness of speech acts and face saving become essential. Therefore, it is very important to achieve a high level of pragmatic competence in speech acts. Bearing this in mind, this study was conducted to investigate the preferred refusal strategies Kurdish and Syriac ...
Dilgash M.Shareef +2 more
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The letter of Mara bar Serapion: the “puzzle” from the Late Antiquity [PDF]
This article is devoted to the study of an important Syriac work, the letter of Mara bar Serapion. Using the methods of literary and rhetorical analysis, the author examines the content and the form of one of the series of paradigms presented in the text,
Sofia Fomicheva
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Syriac lexicon Hasan Bar Bahlul. Volume 3
The massive Syriac-Syriac/Arabic lexicon—actually more an encyclopedia than a mere lexicon—of Bar Bahlul (10th century) is one of two commonly cited Syriac dictionaries from the medieval period, the other being that of Bar Ali.
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Moving Syriac Literature into the Digital Age
The mother tongue of Jesus and his disciples was not Greek or Latin or even Hebrew, but Aramaic, the language of Israel’s Babylonian captors. Aramaic, and in particular the dialect of Syriac, has continued to be spoken by many Christians in the Middle ...
Griffin, Carl
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Relativization in Aramaic-Syriac
This paper is a preliminary approach to relativization in Syriac, which is a dialect of Aramaic, a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic family. This study will concentrate on the morpheme ‘d-’ as a “relative morpheme”.
Skaf, Roula
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A comparative study of Aramaic and Nabataean inscriptions from North-West Saudi Arabia. [PDF]
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al-Theeb, S.A +1 more
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The enigmatic Hebrew word ‘אפים ’ in 1 Samuel 1:5
The Hebrew word ‘אפים’ in Samuel 1:5 presents significant challenges for both ancient translations and modern English translations of the Bible. In ancient texts, the Masoretic text presents ‘אַפָּיִם’ or ‘nostrils’ (face or anger).
Philip S. Chia
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