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ReligionsIn this contribution, I contend that the divine “spirit, wind” was conceived as moist, wet, and vaporous in nature in ancient Israel and Mesopotamia. I adduce support for this view from biological reality and from a number of biblical and cuneiform texts
Scott B. Noegel
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Open Linguistics, 2015 Based on a corpus coming from the Turfan oasis (in present-day Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China) and consisting of Christian Middle Iranian literature in several languages (Middle Persian, Syriac and Sogdian) and scripts (East Syriac, Pahlavi and ...
Barbati Chiara
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Studia Ceranea, 2021 This article is devoted to the image of a social situation in the eastern parts of the Byzantine Empire during the 5th–7th century, which is to be found in the East Christian hagiographical texts. They cannot be treated as a completely reliable source of
Zofia A. Brzozowska
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Differences in Research Abstracts written in Arabic, French, and English [PDF]
English Studies at NBU, 2020 The proliferation of publications, mainly the digital ones, makes it necessary to write well-structured abstracts which help readers gauge the relevance of articles and thus attract a wider readership.
Abdelmajid Bouziane +1 more
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Kurdish as a Stateless Language in the U.S. [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2021 This article discusses the status of Kurdish as a stateless language in the U.S. By using intersectionality as the theoretical framework, the article argues that the educational structures of power converge, at Kurds home countries and abroad, to create ...
Haidar Khezri
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Lenguaje, 2021 In this paper we suggest that linguistic features can show traces of the frequency and intensity of social interactions between indigenous peoples. We focus on peoples of the alluvial fan of the Pilcomayo River (South American Chaco), and analyze first ...
María Belén Carpio +2 more
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Integrating Content and English-Language Learning in a Middle Eastern Information Technology College: Investigating Faculty Perceptions, Practices and Capabilities [PDF]
InSITE Conference, 2016 The expanding role of English as an international lingua franca has had considerable effects on higher education (HE) provision around the world. English has become the medium of choice for African HE, and its position as a medium of instruction in the Europe and Asia is strengthening (Coleman, 2006; HU, 2009). English-medium tertiary education is also
Norman Williams +2 more
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Terminological synonyms in Czech and English sports terminologies [PDF]
Linguistica Pragensia, 2016 The following paper deals with the concept and typology of terminological synonyms in English and Czech, focusing on the official sport terms codified in English and/or Czech dictionaries.
Michaela Cocca +3 more
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Weights and Measurement Units in Khotanese [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2019 . Introduction There is not much information about the weights and measurement units that were used by Iranian people in ancient Iran. In the surviving texts of ancient Iranian languages, we do not find a lot of words that refer to weighing and measuring,
مجید طامه
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Wawasan: Jurnal Ilmiah Agama dan Sosial Budaya, 2023 This research investigates the usage of the terms Allah, Al-Ilah, and Allahumma in the Christian-Muslim Middle Eastern context before the 9th century AD. The aim of this study is to trace the historical development and theological implications of these terms within Arabic-speaking Christian and Muslim communities.
Susanti Embong Bulan +3 more
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