Journal of Semitic Studies 63/2

Volume 63 Issue 2 October 2018 Articles Biblical Hebrew Bal and Privative Negation Ambjörn Sjörs How was the dageš in Biblical Hebrew Pronounced and Why is it There? Geoffrey Khan 'And they shall Beat their Swords into…Scrapers': Two Case Studies in the Vocabulary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Emmanuel Mastey Islām – Midrashic Perspectives on a Quranic Term Menahem Kister Automatic Extraction of Quranic Lexis Representing Two Different Notions of Linguistic Salience: Keyness and Prosodic Prominence Claire Brierley; Majdi Sawalha; Tajul Islam ; James Dickins; Eric Atwell Was Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq the Author of the Arabic Translation of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia? Evidence from the Arabic Translations of the Hippocratic Aphorisms and the Syriac Lexicons of Bar Bahlul and Bar 'Ali Samuel G Barry Changes in Jewish Attitudes Towards the Arabic Language During the Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries Shraybom-Shivtiel Shlomit Reviews Veysel Donbaz, Middle Assyrian Texts from Assur at the Eski Şark Eserleri Müzesi in Istanbul Nicholas Postgate Gregorio del Olmo Lete, Estudios de lingüística ugarítica: una selección Wilfred G E Watson Jeremy M. Hutton and Aaron D. Rubin (eds), Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Perspectives on Philological & Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Jo Ann Hackett André Lemaire Hans Rechenmacher (ed.), In Memoriam Wolfgang Richter Holger Gzella Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi (eds), Leadership, Social Memory and Judean Discourse in the Fifth-Second Centuries BCE David G Firth M.V. Fox, Proverbs: An Eclectic Edition with Introduction and Textual Commentary Johann Cook Dominic S. Irudayaraj, Violence, Otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63:1-6: The Trampling One Coming from Edom Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer Jonathan Gibson, Covenant Continuity and Fidelity: A Study of Inner-Biblical Allusion and Exegesis in Malachi George Athas Max Roglund, Haggai and Zechariah 1-8: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text Jacques E J Boulet Troy D. Cudworth, War in Chronicles: Temple Faithfulness and Israel's Place in the Land Jon W Boling Ronald Hendel, Steps to a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible Eugene Ulrich Uzzi Ornan, Diqduq ha-pe w-ha-?ozen (Grammar of Mouth and Ear) Miri Bar-Ziv Levy Patricia Crone, The Qur'ānic Pagans and Related Matters: Collected Studies in Three Volumes Robert Hoyland Mordechai Akiva Friedman, A Dictionary of Medieval Judeo-Arabic in the India Book Letters from the Geniza and Other Texts Avihai Shivtiel Norbert Nebes, Der Tatenbericht des Yiṯa''amar Watar bin Yakrubmalik aus Ṣirwāḥ (Jemen). Zur Geschichte Südarabiens im frühen 1. Jahrtausend vor Christus Alessandra Avanzini Juliane Müller, Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin: Das Kitāb al-Aġḏiya wa-l-ašriba des Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī Oliver Kahl Richard J. Davey, Coastal Dhofari Arabic, A Sketch Grammar Roberta Morano Short Notes Philip R. Davies, The History of Ancient Israel: A Guide for the Perplexed Adrian H W Curtis Dolores Kamrada, Heroines, Heroes and Deity: Three Narratives of the Biblical Heroic Tradition David G Firth Tedros Abraha, Gädlä Abunä Yonas Zä-Bur: Eritrean Saint of the 15th Century Michael A Knibb Books Received Books Received