All those Nations : : Cultural Encounters within and with the Near East / / edited by H.L.J. Vanstiphout.

• Superior document: Comers/ICOG Communications ; 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Vanstiphout, H.L.J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Comers/ICOG Communications ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 pages)

This collection of studies treats the theme of cultural (and other) confrontations between different groups (ethnic, or linguistic, or political, or religious…) within the Middle East, but also in some contributions, the types of confrontation between the West and the Middle East.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Reconstruction of Yiddish Colloquial in Winschoten, Wout Jac. van Bekkum
• Delusion of Identification: The Term Madhhab in Arabic Grammatical Tradition, Monique Bernards
• Tatius and Heliodorus in Christian East Syria, Jan N. Bremmer
• Syriac Julian Romance, Jan Willem Drijvers
• Arabic Version of John Chrysostom’s Commentary on Genesis , Adriana Drint
• For Camels, Swords and Nabataeans. A Nabataean Centre in Arabic Sources, Geert Jan van Gelder
• and Persecution: Establishing Church Unity in the Sixth Century, Jan van Ginkel
• Substratum as a Cultured Weapon, Karel Jongeling
• Ezra 15, 28-33 and the Historical Events in the Middle of the Third Century, A.F.J. Klijn
• if from Another World. Narsai’s Memra ‘Bad is the time’, Corrie Molenberg
• 27,21: The Priestly Oracle Urim and Tummim and the History of Reception, Ed Noort
• Early Syriac Reference to Qur’an 112?, Gerrit J. Reinink
• New Textual Witness of the Dialogue Poem “The Cherub and the Repentant Thief” in the university Library, Groningen, Gerrit J. Reinink
• Debate in a Muslim Context: ibn Al-Mahrumas Notes to Ibn Kammuma’s Examination of the Inquiries into the three Faiths , Barbara Roggema
• Twin Tongues. theory, technique, and Practice of Bilingualism in Ancient Mesopotamia, Herman L.J. Vanstiphout
• the Signs, Niek Veldhuis.