Journal of Semitic Studies 71/1 (2026)

Volume 71, Issue 1, Spring 2026   View issue

Short Notes     The Dhofari/South-East Arabian Inscription KME 48: Some remarks on a Modern South Arabian Anthroponym Giuliano Castagna and Letizia Cerqueglini

Articles     Genizah Fragment Possibly Copied by Moshe B. Levi Ha-Levi and Its Version of Saadya's Introduction to the Tafsīr and Gen. 1:1–3:5 Tamar Zewi and Amir Ashur Disseminating Medical Knowledge from the East: Two new Judaeo-Syriac fragments from the Cairo Genizah Anna Cherkashina Aramaic Reflexes of the Semitic Ḏ̣/Ṣ̂*: A Study in Ancient Polyphony, Ugaritic Phonology & Arabic Dialectology Martin Luther Chan Bridging the Gaps: A New Jewish Aramaic Incantation Bowl and Its Parallels Ohad Abudraham Borrowed adjectival inflection in the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects Eleanor Coghill Non-Urmi North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic varieties in the village of Urmiya, Russia: Distinctive features of phonology and morphology Maria Ovsjannikova and others When did Faṣīḥ become Qabīḥ? Rehabilitating Classical phonological and morphological features Marijn van Putten Late Judaeo-Arabic Poems of Ibn Mi‹mār—an Unknown 17th century Humourist(?) Rachel Hasson Non-Future Uses of the Particle ġādi in Moroccan Arabic Simone Bettega The Low Vowel Insertion Rule After Gutturals (AKA The Gahawa-Syndrome): Types, Synchronic Distribution, Diachronic Developments and The Rule's Role in Bedouin-Type Arabic Stephan Procházka Dialectology of Rabbinic Hebrew: Idiomatic Expressions of Death Emmanuel Mastey Palestinian Amoraic Hebrew—A Living Vernacular? Yehonatan Wormser From Prepositions to Causal Conjunctions: An Incomplete Change Process in the Emergence Period of Modern Hebrew Yael Reshef On the Apparent Co-occurrence of the Definite Article and the Possessive Pronominal Suffix in Modern South Arabian and Ṭuroyo Lutz Edzard

Review Articles     Notes on the History of the Aramaic Verb Sergey Loesov and Maksim Kalinin Scribal Interference and Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew in the Wake of Aaron D. Hornkohl's Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew Channan Ariel

Reviews     Moshe Florentin and Abraham Tal, The Samaritan Pentateuch: An English Translation with a Parallel Annotated Hebrew Text Timothy Lee Kim Phillips, Two Early Byzantine Bible Manuscripts in Christian Palestinian Aramaic: Codex Climaci Rescriptus II & XI Laurent Capron William C. Young, The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors: Explaining the Non-human Names of Arab Kinship Groups. 3 Vols. 178.1, 178.2-1, 178.2-2 James Bejon Dotan Arad and Esther-Miriam Wagner, 'Wisdom and Greatness in One Place': The Alexandrian Trader Moses ben Judah and His Circle Jane Hathaway Hector M. Patmore, Hindy Najman, Stefan Schorch, Jeroen Verrijssen, and Hanneke van der Schoor (eds), Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions Kim Phillips Roey Schneider, The Semitic Sibilants: Correspondences and Discrepancies Ola Wikander Janet C. E Watson, Moranda J Morris, and Erik Anonby (eds), Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabia, Volume 1: Regional Studies. Aharon Geva-Kleinberger Frendo, Anthony J., and Kurstin Gatt, (eds), Arabic in Context: Essays on Language, Dialects, and Culture in Honour of Martin R. Zammit. Slavomír Čéplö Assaf Bar-Moshe, Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic: An Introductory Textbook Wiktor Gębski