Deploying a bottom up instead of the conventional top down approach, and drawing
extensively on both literary and dialectal Arabic lexical sources, the present glossary�…

Future Thinking in Roman Culture is the first volume dedicated to the exploration of
prospective memory and future thinking in the Roman world, integrating cutting edge�…

The aim of the present study is to collect together all the Nabataean Aramaic-Greek
epigraphic evidence existing in the Middle-East and Oriental Mediterranean areas and�…

This book examines the works of Medieval Muslim philosophers interested in intercultural
encounters and how receptive Islam is to foreign thought, to serve as a dialogical model�…

After one of the longest recorded histories of any language, Akkadian died out sometime
around the turn of the era. 1 It died sufficiently, as we know, that it had to be deciphered by�…

A copper-alloy object bearing an incised Aramaic inscription in lapidary script was found on
the surface, about halfway up the hill of Tul�l Mas 'ud, in the Sharon plain. The object was�…

The phrase “Christianity and Empire” conjures up the perennial relationship between
Christian belief and structures of power that has been responsible for Christianity's political�…

Between the Mediterranean Sea and the Syrian steppe, the area called “Lebanon” in
antiquity included Mount Lebanon itself, along the Phoenician coast, and parallel range of�…

Abstract In Proto-Aramaic, the passive of transitive verbs belonging to all three principal
stems—G, D and C—was formed internally. Some verbs of the G-and D-stems also�…

The present paper offers an analysis of certain Northern Mesopotamian demons attested on
an Aramaic incantation bowl in square script. This object displays at its centre a list of evil�…