Journal of Semitic Studies 69/1

New issue alert         Most Read in Linguistics   Discover highlights from Oxford University Press' portfolio of linguistics books and journals. Find out what your peers are reading with free access to selected articles and chapters for a limited time. Read now           Volume 69 Issue 1   Spring 2024       Articles         A Note on the Safaitic Calendar     Ahmad Al-Jallad       On the Etymology of Biblical Hebrew טֶרֶם Ṭɛrɛm 'before, not yet'     Ambjörn Sjörs       The Non-Triliteral Theory of Verbal Morphology of the Karaite Joseph IBN Nūḥ     Joshua Dachman       Verbal system and poetics in the works of Yehuda Ha-Lewi     Barbara Gryczan       Several Genizah Fragments of Saadya Gaon's Translation of the Pentateuch Copied by Yedutun ben Levi     Tamar Zewi, Amir Ashur     A donation list from Elephantine: Judaean and Non-Judaean onomastic characteristics from the Persian period in Egypt     Mitka R Golub       'A great star falls'—cometology in Syriac language and literature     Stefanie Rudolf       There's Something Bad in the Packs: A Vernacular Aramaic Phrase in al-Ṭabarī's and al-Masʿūdī's Histories?     Georg Leube, Charles G Häberl       Narrative verbal forms in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects     Geoffrey Khan       The Girl in the Ape's House: A folktale in a North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic variety of Urmiya, Russia     Alexey Lyavdansky, Kirill Kozhanov, Maria Ovsjannikova     'Unorthodox' Usages of the Term xabar in the Early Arabic Grammatical Tradition     Almog Kasher       The Morphosyntax of Objects to Participles in the Qurʾān     Marijn van Putten       Oral Reading Traditions and Scriptural Hermeneutics: The Exegetical Significance of the Pausal Systems in the Hebrew Bible and the Qurʾān     Tareq Moqbel       The Evolution of Morpho-Syntactic Mood in Arabic: A View from early Christian Arabic Gospel Manuscripts     Phillip W Stokes       The Silence of the Bride: A Fatimid marriage contract on silk     Reem Alrudainy, Mathieu Tillier, Naïm Vanthieghem       The Sufi Writing Tradition in Arabic     Arin Salamah-Qudsi       Berber Influence on Arabic Form IX in North Africa     Lameen Souag       Epenthesis and vowel intrusion in Central Dhofari Mehri     Janet C E Watson, Gisela Tomé Lourido, Abdullah al-Mahri       The Christian Arabic dialect of Mērgī     Qasim Hassan       On the Acoustics of Emphasis in Central Mount Lebanon Lebanese     Georges Sakr       Ruʾūs al-Jibāl Arabic in Context: A Proposal for an Expanded Typology of Southeastern Arabian Dialects     Mark Daniel Shockley       Yesterday and the Day Before in Semitic     Aaron D Rubin       Valentina Grasso, Pre-Islamic Arabia: Politics, Cults and Identities during Late Antiquity: A Review Article     Ahmad Al-Jallad       Book Reviews         Daniel James Waller, The Bible in the Bowls: A Catalogue of Biblical Quotations in Published Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Magic Bowls     Anne Burberry       Maciej Klimiuk, Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork – Community – Change     Wiktor Gębski       Otto Jastrow, Der arabische Dialekt der Christen von Kaʿbīye (Diyarbakir)     Stephan Procházka       Enam Al-Wer, Uri Horesh, Bruno Herin, Arabic Sociolinguistics     Catherine Miller       Endalew Assefa, Descriptive Grammar of Ezha: A Gurage Language of Ethiopia (Ethio-Semitic)     Aaron D Rubin