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JOURNAL OF SEMITIC STUDIES VOLUME XXXVI (1991) INDEX ARTICLES page SuLiMAN BasHEAR, Riding Beasts on Divine Missions. An Examination of the Ass and Camel Traditions 37 Hartmut Boszin, Uber eine bisher unbekannte Europaische Bezeugung des Terminus ‘Karsan? im 16. Jahrhundert 259 NorMan Caper, The Qarra’ and the Arabic Lexicographical Tradition 297 JAN JoosTEN, The Syntax of haberakah ‘ahat hi’ laka ‘abi (Gen. 27:38acx) 207 M.C.A. Macponatp, HU 501 and the Use of s3 in Taymanite 12 A.R. MruarD, Frederick Fyvie Bruce, F.B.A. Yosu1 Mucuiki, The Unidentified God PMY in Phoenician Texts H.J. Potorsxy (transl. by Ropert D. HoBERMAN), Modern Syriac Conjugation B. Topp Lawson, Note for the Study of a Shi‘ Qur’an GEERT JAN VAN GELDER, Musawir al-Warraq and the Begin- nings of Arabic Gastronomic Poetry A.H. Matutas ZAHNISER, The Word of God and the Apostles- hip of ‘Isa. A Narrative Analysis of Al ‘Imran (3): 33-62 77 Mauro Zonta, Nemeriana Syriaca: New Fragments from the Missing Syriac Version of De Natura Homines 223 REVIEWS Enrico Acquaro, Louis Godart, Federico Mazza and Domenico Musti (eds.), Momenti Precoloniali nel Mediterraneo Antico. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (VRONWY HANKEY) 149 Julia Ashtiany, T.M. Johnstone, J.D. Latham, R.B. Serjeant and G. Rex Smith (eds.), ‘Abbasid Belles-Lettres (The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature) (HILARY KILPATRICK) 37° Sergio Baldi, A First Ethnolinguistic Comparison of Arabic Loan- words Common to Hausa and Swahili (ALAN S. Kaye) 142 379 Hans M. Barstad, A Way in the Wilderness. The ‘Second Exodus’ in the Message of Second Isaiah (BARNABAS LINDARS) Theodore A. Bergren, Fifth Ezra. The Text, Origin and Early History (Trwotny H. Lim) [Bible], The Revised English Bible, F.F. BRUCE [C.E. Bosworth (tr.)], The History of al-Tabari, vol. XXX, The “Abbasid Caliphate in Equilibrium. The Caliphate of Masa al-Hadt and Haran al-Rashid A.D. 785-809|A.H. 169-193 (AMIKAM ELAD) Mark Zvi Brettler, God is King: Understanding an Israelite Meta- phor (BARNABAS LINDARS) G.J. Brooke (ed.), Temple Scroll Studies (DEVORAH DIMANT) Peggy L. Day, An Adversary in Heaven: Satan in the Hebrew Bible (Joun Day) John Edward, The Jews in Christian Europe, 1400-1700 (BRIAN PULLAN) Claude Gilliot, Exégése, langue et théologie en Islam. L’exégese coranique de Tabari (A. Rippin) Daniel Gimaret, Les noms divins en Islam (JOHN BuRTON) David M. Golomb with the assistance of Susan T. Hollis, ‘Working with No Data’: Semitic and Egyptian Studies presented to Thomas O. Lambdin (A.H.W. Curtis) [G.R. Hawting (tr.)], The History of al-Tabari, vol. XX. The Collapse of Sufyanid Authority and the Coming of the Marwanids (D.E.P. Jackson) W. Heinrichs (ed.), Studies in Neo Aramaic (RUDOLF Macucn) Martin Hinds and Hamdi Sakkout, Arabic Documents from the Ottoman Period from Qasr Ibrim (GEOFFREY KHAN) Robert D. Hoberman, The Syntax and the Semantic of Verb Morphology in Modern Aramaic (BRUNO Po1zaT) Bo Holmberg (ed.), A Treatise on the Unity and Trinity of God by Israel of Kashkar (d. 872) (DAviD THOmas) Danielle Jacquart and Frangoise Micheau, La médecine arabe et lOccident médiéval (OLIVER KAHL) John Kampen, The Hasideans and the Origin of Pharisaism (GEORGE BROOKE) Geoffrey Khan, Studies in Semitic Syntax (A.F.L. BEESTON) Lillian R. Klein, The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Judges (BARNABAS LINDARS) [Gareth Lloyd Jones, (tr.)], Robert Wakefield, On the Three Languages (1524) (J. ENocH PowELL) 380 Gordon H. Matties, Ezekiel 18 and the Rhetoric of Moral Discourse (TERENCE COLLINS) Shelomo Morag, Vocalised Talmudic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, Vol. 1 (BRUNO CHIESA) Ahmed Moutaouakil, Pragmatic Functions in a Functional Gram- mar of Arabic (ALAN S. Kaye) Milward D. Nelson, The Syriac Version of the Wisdom of Ben Sira Compared to the Greek and Hebrew Materials (ROBERT J. OWENS) Jacob Neusner, Judaism and its Social Metaphors (SAcHA STERN) Benedikt Otzen, Judaism in Antiquity. Political Development and Religious Currents from Alexander to Hadrian (LESTER L. GRABBE) O. Pedersén, Archives and Libraries in the City of Assur. A Survey of the Material from the German Excavations (STEPHANIE DALLEY) Belazel Porten and Ada Yardeni, Textbook of Aramaic Docu- ments from Ancient Egypt. II, Contracts (S.P. Brock) D.S. Powers, Studies in Qur'an and Hadith: the Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance (JOHN BuRTON) W. Randall Garr, Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 B.C.E. (A.R. MILiarb) Stefan C. Reif (ed.), Published Material from the Cambridge Genizah Collections. A Bibliography 1896-1980 (BRUNO CHIESA) Gary A. Rendsburg, Linguistic Evidence for the Northern Origin of Selected Psalms (M1CHAEL GOULDER) Stephen D. Ricks, Lexicon of Inscriptional Qatabanian (A.F.L. BEESTON) Annemarie Schimmel, Islamic Names (C. E>MUND BosworTH) Lester A. Segal, Historical Consciousness and Religious Tradition in Agariah de’ Rossi’s Me’or ’ Einayim (JOANNA WEINBERG) Mohammed Shaheen, The Modern Arabic Short Story: Shabrazad Returns (CATHERINE COBHAM) Irfan Shahid, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century (MauRICE SARTRE) T.A. Sinclair, Eastern Turkey: an Architectural and Archaeological Survey (SEBASTIAN P. BRock) J. Sublet (ed.), Cabiers donomastique arabe 1985-1987 (Davip J. WASSERSTEIN) Al-Suyiti, Sharh maqamat Jalal al-Din al-Suyati (C. Epmunp BosworTH) [H. A. Juynboll (tr.)], The History of al-Tabari, vol. XIII, The 381 Conquest of Iraq, Southwestern Persia, and Egypt (RICHARD KIMBER) Emmanuel Tov, with the collaboration of R.A. Kraft, and a contribution by P.J. Parsons, The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8 Hev XII gr) (The Seiyal Collection I) (N. FERNANDEZ Marcos) Siegbert Uhlig, Athiopische Paléographie (EDWARD ULLENDORFF) Willem Van der Meer and Johannes C. de Moor (eds.), The Structural Analysis of Biblical and Canaanite Poetry ().F. HEALEY) Reiner M. Voigt, Die infirmen Verbaltypen des Arabischen und das Biradikalismus-Problem (WOLFRAM VON SODEN) Bruce K. Waltke and M. O’Connor, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (TERENCE COLLINS) W. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity (A. RIpPIN) é John William Wevers, Notes on the Greek Text of Exodus (ALISON SALVESEN) La Ciudad de Dios (GEORGE J. BROOKE) REVIEWERS Breston, A.F.L., Khan and Ricks BoswortH, C.E., Schimmel and al-Suyati Brock, S.P., Porten and Sinclair Brooke, G.J., La Ciudad de Dios Bruce, F.F., Bzble Burton, J., Gimaret and Powers Curesa, B., Morag and Reif CosHaM, C., Shaheen CoLuins, T., Matties and Waltke Curtis, A.H.W., Golomb Da. ey, S., Pedersén Day, J., Day Drmant, D., Brooke Exap, A., Bosworth FERNANDEZ Marcos, N., Tov GouLpER, M., Rendsburg GrRABBE, L.L., Otzen Hankey, V., Acquaro HEALEY, J.F., Van der Meer Jackson, D.E.P., Hawting KAHL, O., Jacquart Kaye, A.S., Baldi and Moutaouakil 382 Kuan, G., Hinds Kripatrick, H., Ashtiany Kimser, R., Juynboll Lim, T.H., Bergren Linpars, B., Barstad, Brettler and Klein Macucy, R., Heinrichs Miuxiarp, A.R., Randall Garr Owens, R.J., Nelson Porzat, B., Hoberman PowELL, J. Enoch, Lloyd Jones PuLLaNn, B., Edward Rippin, A., Gilliot and Montgomery Watt SALVESEN, A., Wevers SartRE, M., Shahid STERN, S., Neusner Tuomas, D., Holmberg ULLENDor®FF, E., Uhlig Von Sopen, W., Voigt WassersTEIN, D.J., Sublet WEINBERG, J., Segal