Telling of olden kings / / edited by Yoram Cohen [and four others].

• Superior document: The IOS Annual
• TeilnehmendeR: Cohen, Yoram, 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The IOS Annual
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 pages)

"The IOS Annual volume 22: "Telling of Olden Kings" brings forth studies devoted to a wide array fields and disciplines of the Middle East. The three sections - Ancient Near East, Semitics and Arabic Language and Literature include nine articles. The Ancient Near East section is devoted exclusively to the late period of ancient Near Eastern history - Neo-Babylonian Mesopotamia and the Achaemenid Empire (Da Riva and Novotny; Levavi; Tavernier and Azzoni; Zadok). The Semitic section includes three articles dealing with contact between various languages of the Semitic language group and between Semitic languages and dialects and other language groups (Castagna; Cerqueglini; Klimiuk and Lipnicka). The Arabic section contains two articles (Khoury; Yavor)"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Editorial -- ‎Part 1. The Ancient Near East -- ‎Chapter 1. A Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II from Uruk in the Collection of David and Cindy Sofer, London, Displayed in the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem (Da Riva and Novotny) -- ‎Chapter 2. On the Use of Personal Names in Neo-Babylonian Epistolography (Levavi) -- ‎Chapter 3. Scribal Confusion in Aramaic Renderings of Iranian Anthroponyms: A Preliminary Study (Tavernier and Azzoni) -- ‎Chapter 4. The Scribes of Borsippa in the First Millennium BC: A Preliminary Survey (Zadok) -- ‎Part 2. Semitic Languages and Linguistics -- ‎Chapter 5. Etymological Investigations on Jibbali/Śḥerέt Anthroponyms (Castagna) -- ‎Chapter 6. Early Sabaic/Gəʿəz Shared Lexical Stock: Retentions, Innovations and Loanwords (Cerqueglini) -- ‎Chapter 7. The Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary Remarks (Klimiuk and Lipnicka) -- ‎Part 3. Arabic Language and Literature -- ‎Chapter 8. Elements of Folktales in Modern Arabic Poetry-The First Half of the 20th Century (Khoury) -- ‎Chapter 9. From a Canaanite Prostitute to an Israelite Wo/Man: On the Metamorphoses of Rahab in Early Muslim Tradition (Yavor).