Drought will drive you even toward your foe / / 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 (142 pages)

"The IOS Annual volume 23: "Drought Will Drive You Even Toward Your Foe" brings forth studies devoted to a wide array fields and disciplines of the Middle East. The two sections - Ancient Near East and Semitics include six articles. The Ancient Near East contains three articles dealing with the history of Mesopotamia and ancient Syria (Steinkeller; Steinmayer; Cohen), and the second and concluding part of "On Aramaic Loanwords in Neo- and Late Babylonian Texts" (Zadok), which appeared in IOS 21. The Semitic section includes two articles. The first is about metaphors in the Bedouins' Poetry (Cerqueglini). The second is an in-depth review of the past research into the kinship of Afroasiatic linguistic families (Takács)"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Editorial -- ‎Part 1. The Ancient Near East -- ‎Chapter 1. Urukagina's Rise to Power (Steinkeller) -- ‎Chapter 2. Samsuiluna and the Reconquest of Nippur (Steinmeyer) -- ‎Chapter 3. The Statue of Idrimi and the Term mānaḫtu/mānaḫātu (Cohen) -- ‎Chapter 4. On Aramaic Loanwords in Neo- and Late-Babylonian Texts: Morphophonological Classification, Documentary Distribution, General Evaluation, and Conclusions (Part Two) (Zadok) -- ‎Part 2. Semitic Languages and Linguistics -- ‎Chapter 5. The Way to the Rainy Mountains: Semantic Networks of Natural Metaphors in Najdi Poetry (Cerqueglini) -- ‎Chapter 6. The Vocalization of Guttural Consonants in the Secunda and Other Hebrew Traditions (Maurizio).