Journal of Semitic Studies 64/2

Volume 64 Issue 2 October 2019 Articles The Short-Form of the Phoenician First-Person, Independent Pronoun Reassessed Charles W Loder Blessings in the Phoenician and Luwian Inscriptions of Azatiwada Schade Aaron A Re-Examination of D-H-M in the Meṣad ḤAshavyahu Ostracon (KAI 200) Sonja Noll Bound Pronominal Objects in Biblical Hebrew: Clarification and Critique Ethan Jones Where Does 'Ayyē Come From? Proclisis and Affix Pleonasm in the Biblical Hebrew Interrogatives 'Ē and 'Ayyē Benjamin Kantor Two Instances of Language Contact in Isaiah 45:14 Samuel Boyd A New Perspective on the Syriac Hwayt Qāṭēl in a Non-Past Context Lidia Napiórkowska La Formation Des Conjugaisons Passives En Syriaque Emmanuel Aïm Conceptualization of the Morpheme and the Distinction Between Verbs and Nouns in Traditional Hebrew Grammars Yehonatan Wormser The Function of 'aṮmāhā in Genesis Rabbah Einav Fleck The Hebrew Translations of Euclid's Elements By Moses IBN Tibbon and by Jacob Ben Makhir–A Study of Differences in Book I Ofer Elior Elegy and Nasīb in the Ancient Arabic QAṢīda: The Unique Structure of an Elegy by Ibn Muqbil Ali Ahmad Hussein 'The Lord': An Apology for the Muslim Faith from the Island of Soqotra1 Issa Gum'an Ad-Da'rhi; Leonid Kogan; Dmitry Cherkashin The Wandering Palestinian as Reflected in the Novel Imra'at Al-Risāla by The Palestinian Writer Rajā' Bakriyya Dorit Gottesfeld The Evolution of the Rajaz Meter in Modern Arabic Poetry, Al-Rajaz Poem as Narrative Poetry, as Reflected in the Works of Ṣalāḥ 'ABD AL-Ṣabūr Shibi Maysoon Fuad A Note on 'Arabic' Kahl Oliver Reviews Andrew Knapp, Royal Apologetic in the Ancient Near East Jonathan Robker Brian R. Doak, Phoenician Aniconism in Its Mediterranean and Ancient Near Eastern Contexts Anthony J Frendo J. Cornelis de Vos and Hermut Löhr (eds) with the assistance of Juliane Ta Van, "You Shall Not Kill": The Prohibition of Killing in Ancient Religions and Cultures Anthony J Frendo Lester L. Grabbe, Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? Adrian H W Curtis Barbara Green, David's Capacity for Compassion: A Literary-Hermeneutical Study of 1–2 Samuel Benjamin J M Johnson Ming Him Ko, The Levite Singers in Chronicles and Their Stabilising Role Mika Pajunen Katell Berthelot, In Search of the Promised Land? The Hasmonean Dynasty Between Biblical Models and Hellenistic Diplomacy Doron Mendels Jessica M. Keady, Vulnerability and Valour: A Gendered Analysis of Everyday Life in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities Jutta Jokiranta N.A. Pedersen, R. Falkenberg, J.M. Larsen and C. Leurini, The Old Testament in Manichaean Tradition: The Sources in Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, New Persian, and Arabic Matthew Goff Ortal-Paz Saar, Jewish Love Magic. From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages Alessia Bellusci Harald Motzki, Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn sḥāq's Life of the Prophet and Early Qurāān Exegesis: A Study of Early Ibn Abbās Traditions Pavel Pavlovitch Laïla Nehmé and Ahmad al-Jallad (eds), To the Madbar and Back Again: Studies in the Languages, Archaeology, and Cultures of Arabia Dedicated to Michael C.A. Macdonald Wagner Esther-miriam Short Notes Donna Laird, Negotiating Power in Ezra-Nehemiah Charlotte Hempel Lizbeth S. Fried, Ezra: A Commentary Yigal Levin