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Michael C.A. Macdonald is one of the great names of Arabian Studies. He pioneered the field of Ancient North Arabian and made invaluable contributions to the history of Arabia and the nomads of the Near East, their languages, and their scripts. This volume gathers thirty-two innovative contributions from leading scholars in the field to honor the career of Michael C.A. Macdonald, covering the languages and scripts of ancient Arabia, their history and archaeology, the Hellenistic Near East, and the modern dialects and languages of Arabia. The book is an essential part of the library of any who study the Near East, its languages and its cultures.

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Author:   Laila Nehme ,  Ahmad Al-Jallad
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   92
Weight:   1.266kg
ISBN:  

9789004356122

ISBN 10:   9004356126
Pages:   714
Publication Date:   07 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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The Research of M.C.A. Macdonald Publications of M.C.A. Macdonald Tabula Gratulatoria Tables and Figures Contributors Epigraphy and Philology 1 Les artisans et professions â ¯liberalesâ ¯ dans le domaine nabateen â Laila Nehme 2 Anmerkungen zum safaitischen und althebraischen Onomastikon â Walter W. Muller 3 Safaitic Prayers, Curses, Grief and More from Wadi Salhub-North-Eastern Jordan â Hani Hayajneh 4 Notes on hwb in Safaitic â Chiara Della Puppa 5 Traditional Music or Religious Ritual? Ancient Rock Art Illumined by Bedouin Custom â Ali Al-Manaser 6 The Formularies and Their Historical Implications: Two Examples from Ancient South Arabian Epigraphic Documentation â Alessandra Avanzini 7 Ancient South Arabian Graffiti from Shabathan (Governorate of al-Baydaʾ, Yemen) â Alessia Prioletta 8 Schreiben, meisseln, Fehler machen. Zur Funktion von Schrift im offentlichen Raum im antiken Sudarabien â Peter Stein 9 The Phonemes z and t in the Dadanitic Inscriptions â Fokelien Kootstra 10 Dadanitic Inscriptions from Jabal al-Khraymat (Madaʾin Salih) â Maria del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacon Diez 11 Un sanctuaire de montagneâ ¯: Mushannaf â Maurice Sartre 12 Un pasteur et un soldatâ ¯? Deux inscriptions grecques d'â ¯epoque romaine a l'â ¯est du Jabal Hawran â Francois Villeneuve 13 Meharistes et cavaliers romains dans le desert jordanien â Pierre-Louis Gatier 14 Goras, sanglier ou jeune lion (ou onagre)â ¯? â Jean-Baptiste Yon 15 A Lead Syriac Protective Talisman â Sebastian Brock 16 Two New Arabic Inscriptions: Arabian Castles and Christianity in the Umayyad Period â Robert Hoyland 17 The Etymology of Hatta â Ahmad al-Jallad 18 Are Libyco-Berber Horizontal t and Vertical h the Same Sign? â Marijn van Putten Archaeology, History and Religion 19 The Outer Wall of Taymaʾ and Its Dating to the Bronze Age â Arnulf Hausleiter 20 Pottery from the Midianite Heartland ? On Tell Kheleifeh and Qurayyah Painted Ware. New Evidence from the Harvard Semitic Museum â Marta Luciani 21 A Caravan Merchant Family of `Antioch on the Chrysorhoas'. A Glimpse of Hellenistic Gerasa as a Caravanserai â Ina Kehrberg(-Ostrasz) 22 The Visit of Malik bin MuÊ¿awiyah, King of Kindah and MadhiG to the Himyarite King Sammar YuharÊ¿is in Maʾrib â Mohammed Maraqten 23 Der rituelle Umzug des Yadaʿʾil Darih nach Sirwah â Norbert Nebes 24 Sedentism of Arabs in the 8th-4th Centuries BC â Israel EphÊ¿al 25 Reflections on Arab Leadership in Late Antiquity â Greg Fisher 26 A Paradise in the Desert: Iram at the Intersection of One Thousand and One Nights, Quranic Exegesis, and Arabian history â Orhan Elmaz 27 Mourning for the Dead and the Beginning of Idolatry in the Kitab al-Asnam and the Spelunca Thesaurorum-an Unknown Parallel to Surat at-Takatur (Q102)? â Konstantin M. Klein 28 Temple Inscriptions and the Death of the God(s) â John F. Healey 29 `The Conception of Jesus' â Hannah M. Cotton Paltiel Modern Dialects and Tribes 30 Drink Long and Drink in Peace: Singing to Livestock at Water in Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman â Miranda J. Morris and Salim Ê Awaḍ̣ Ahmad al-Shahri 31 South Arabian Sibilants and the ShereÌ t sÌ ~ s Contrast â Alex Bellem and Janet C.E. Watson 32 Was There a Bedouinisation of Arabia? Probably Not, at Least in the Way It Has so Far been Portrayed â William Lancaster and Fidelity Lancaster Index

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Laila Nehme, Ph.D. (1994) University of Paris I, is Director of Research at the CNRS since 2014. She received a knighthood in the Ordre National du Merite, in 2010. She works on the development of Nabataean writing in Arabic scripture, and is compiling a corpus of Nabateo-Arabic Texts (4th-5th centuries) on which she carries out paleographic and linguistics analyses. Ahmad Al-Jallad, Ph.D. (2012) Harvard University, is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University. He has published on the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, the history of Arabic, and on the epigraphy of Ancient North Arabia, including An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions (Brill, 2015).

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