Author: Robert R. Duke
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433107894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles.

Author: Jack Tannous
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. Largely agrarian and illiterate, Christians often called "the simple" outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's history

Author: Yoram Cohen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004499148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473

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The IOS Annual Volume 21. “Carrying a Torch to Distant Mountains” brings forth cutting-edge studies devoted to a wide array of fields and disciplines of the Middle East, from the beginning of civilization to modern times.

Author: Yifat Monnickendam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110857033X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Ephrem, one of the earliest Syriac Christian writers, lived on the eastern outskirts of the Roman Empire during the fourth century. Although he wrote polemical works against Jews and pagans, and identified with post-Nicene Christianity, his writings are also replete with parallels with Jewish traditions and he is the leading figure in an ongoing debate about the Jewish character of Syriac Christianity. This book focuses on early ideas about betrothal, marriage, and sexual relations, including their theological and legal implications, and positions Ephrem at a precise intersection between his Semitic origin and his Christian commitment. Alongside his adoption of customs and legal stances drawn from his Greco-Roman and Christian surroundings, Ephrem sometimes reveals unique legal concepts which are closer to early Palestinian, sectarian positions than to the Roman or Jewish worlds. The book therefore explains naturalistic legal thought in Christian literature and sheds light on the rise of Syriac Christianity.

Author: Aaron D. Rubin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004370021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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This groundbreaking study examines the historical development of the Semitic languages from the point of view of grammaticalization, the linguistic process whereby lexical items and constructions lose their lexical meaning and serve grammatical functions.

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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1054

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Category : Catholic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1000

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Author: Michael Sokoloff
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872341
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Since the Middle Ages, lexographies of Talmudic and other rabbinic literature have combined in one entry Babylonian, Palestinian, and Targumic words from various periods. Because morphologically identical words in even closely related dialects can frequently differ in both meaning and nuance, their consolidation into one dictionary entry is often misleading. Scholars now realize the need to treat each dialect separately, and in A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Michael Sokoloff provides a complete lexicon of the dialect spoken and written by Jews in Palestine during the Byzantine period, from the third century C.E. to the tenth century. Sokoloff draws on a wide range of sources, from inscriptions discovered in the remains of synagogues and on amulets, fragments of letters and other documents, poems, and marginal notations to local Targumim, the Palestinian Midrashim and Talmud, texts addressing religious law (halacha), and Palestinian marriage documents (ketubbot) from the Arabic period. Many of these sources were unavailable to previous lexographers, who based their dictionaries on corrupt nineteenth-century editions of the rabbinic literature. The discovery of new manuscripts in both European libraries and the Cairo Geniza over the course of the twentieth century has revolutionized the textual basis of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic. Each entry in A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic is divided into six parts: lemma or root, part of speech, English gloss, etymology, semantic features, and bibliographic references. Sokoloff also includes an index of all cited passages. This major reference work, updated to reflect the publication of new texts over the last decade, will both provide students and scholars with a tool for an accurate understanding of the Aramaic dialect of Jewish Palestinian literature of the Byzantine period and help Aramaist and Semitic linguists to see the relationship between this dialect and others, especially the contemporary dialects of Palestine.

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Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Devoted exclusively to the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs. A forum for study of the region and peaceful resolution to the conflict, analysis of current developments in the peace process, the latest historical scholarship, and cultural and societal trends.