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JOURNAL OF SEMITIC STUDIES VOLUME XLII (1997) INDEX ARTICLES R.P. BUCKLEY, The Early Shiite Ghulah ADRIAN GULLY, Arabic Linguistic Issues and Controversies of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries ANDRAS HAMORI, Mutanabbi’s Painted Mosques SIMON HopkINs, On the Construction sméh L-gabra’, ‘the name of the man’ in Aramaic ORIN D. GENSLER, Reconstructing Quadriliteral Verb Inflection: Ethiopic, Akkadian, Proto-Semitic. ALASDAIR LIVINGSTONE, An Early Attestation of the Arabic Definite Article ALASDAIR LIVINGSTONE, The Akkadian Word for Barley: A Note from the Schoolroom WILLIAM McKane, Micah 2:1—5: Text and Commentary JOSEPH NaveEH, A Syriac Amulet on Leather IAIN PROVAN, The End of (Israel’s) History? K.W. Whitelam’s The Invention of Ancient Israel: A Review Article MARK SOUTHERN and ANDREW G. VAUGHN, Where Have all the Nasals Gone? nC > CC in North Semitic DEVIN J. STEWART, Impoliteness Formulae: The Cognate Curse in Egyptian Arabic EDWARD ULLENDORFF, A Swiss Polyglot Lutz WIEDERHOLD, Blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad and his Companions (sabb al-rasiil, sabb al-sahabah): The Introduction of the Topic into Shafi Legal Literature and its Relevance for Legal Practice under Mamluk Rule REVIEWS Glenda Abramson and Tudor Parfitt (eds), Jewish Education and Learning (DAVID CESARANI) Samir Abu-Absi, Chadian Arabic (ALAN S. KAYE) Philip Alexander and Alexander Samely (eds), Artefact and Text: The Re-Creation of Jewish Literature in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts (MARGARETE SCHLUTER) Ludwig Ammann, Vorbild und Vernunft: Die Regelung von Lachen und Scherzen im mittelalterlichen Islam (OLIVER KAHL) John M.G. Barclay, Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323BCE-117CE) (PAUL TREBILCO) D.R.G. Beattie and M.J. McNamara (eds), The Aramaic Bible: Targums in their Historical Context (D.M. STEC) Malachi Beit-Ari¢é and R.A. May, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library: A Supplement of Addeda and Corrigenda to Volume I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue) (STEFAN C. REIF) Amnon Ben-Tor (ed.), The Archaeology ofA ncient Israel, ur. R. Green- berg (Kay PRAG) Joseph Blenkinsopp, Sage, Priest and Prophet: Religious and Intellectual Leadership in Ancient Israel (KATHERINE J. DELL) Walter R. Bodine, Discourse Analysis of Biblical Literature: What it is and What it Offers (Wilfred G.E. WATSON) Gerrit Bos, bn al-Jazzar on Forgtfulness and its Treatment: Critical Edi- tion of the Arabic Text and the Hebrew Translations with Commentary and Translation into English (OLIVER KAHL) Vermondo Brugnatelli (ed.), Sem Cam Iafet (W.G.E. WATSON) John Burton, An Introduction to the Hadith (JOHN A. NAWAS) Pierre Cachia, An Overview of Modern Arabic Literature (HILARY KIL- PATRICK) Kevin J. Cathcart (ed.), The Edward Hincks Bicentenary Lectures (PETER W. Coxon) Daniel Crecelius ad “Abd al-Wahhab Bakr (trs and eds), A/-Damur- dash’is Chronicle of Egypt 1688-1755: al-Durra al-Musana fi Akhbar al-Kinana (SHMUEL MOREH) Alan D. Crown, Reinhard Pummer and Abraham Tal (eds), A Com- panion to Samaritan Studies (LESTER L. GRABBE) Farhad Daftary (ed.), Mediaeval Isma‘ili History and Thought (PETER JACKSON) Eryl W. Davies, Numbers (PHILIP JENSON) K. Dévény, T. Ivany and A. Shivtiel, Proceedings of the Colloquium on Arabic Lexicology and Lexicography (CALL) Part One (CLIVE HOLES) Manfried Dietrich, Oswald Loretz and Joaquin Sanmartin, The . Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU: Second, Enlarged Edition) (DENNIS PARDEE) 472 N.S. Doniach and A. Kahane, The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary (AVIHAI SHIVTIEL) 429 Aron Dotan and Abraham Tal (eds), Studies in Hebrew Language: In Memory of Elizer Rubinstein (STEVEN FASSBERG) 426 Olivier Durand, /ntroduzione ai dialetti arabi (MARTINE VANHOVE) 202 Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi, Social Life in North-West Arabia between the Sixth Century BC and the Second Century AD (NABIL I. KHAIRY) 430 Richard M. Frank, AL-Ghazali and the Ash‘arite School (JAwiD A. MOJADDEDI) 140 Andreas Fuchs, Die Inschrifien Sargons II. aus Khorsabad (H.W.F SAGGs) 137 Hartmut Gese, Alttestamentliche Studien (JOHN BARTON) 143 H.A.R. Gibb and C.F. Beckingham (trs and eds) The Travels of Ibn Battuta A.D. 1325-1354, Volume IV (C. EDMUND BOSWORTH) 141 Yitzhak D. Gilat, Studies in the Development of the Halakha (SIMEON Lowy) 162 Mireille Hadas-Lebel, Histoire de la langue hébraique: des origines a l'époque de la Mishna (JOHN ELWOLDE) 369 Wael B. Hallaq, Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam (ROBERT GLEAVE) 188 Jutta Hausmann, Studien zum Menschenbild der dlteren Weisheit: (Spr 10ff) (R.N. WysRAy) 393 C.T.R. Hayward (ed. and tr.) Jerome’s Hebrew Questions on Genesis (JAMES C. VANDERKAM) 160 Jehoash Hirshberg, Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine (1880- 1948) (MALCOLM MILLER) Mervyn Hiskett, The Course of Islam in Africa (C. EDMUND BOSWORTH) Clive Holes, Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions and Varieties (MAR- TINE VANHOVE) Jibrail S. Jabbur, The Bedouin and the Desert: Aspects of Nomadic Life in the Arab East (G. REX SMITH) William Johnstone (ed.), William Robertson Smith: Essays in Reassessment (WALTER J. HOUSTON) Barry Alan Jones, The Formation of the Book of the Twelve: A Study in Text and Canon (A. GELSTON) F. Stanley Jones, An Ancient Jewish Christian Source on the History of Christianity: Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions 1.27-71 (RICHARD BAUCKHAM) Isaac Kalimi, Zur Geschichtsschreibung des Chronisten: Literarisch-his- toriographische Abweichungen der Chronik von ihren Paralleltexten in den Samuel- und Kénigsbiichern (PET B. DIRKSEN) 473 Giinter Krahl, Wolfgang Reuschel and Eckerhard Schulz, Lehrbuch des modernen Arabisch, Neue Ausgabe (AVIHAI SHIVTIEL) Paul Kraus, Alchemie, Ketzerei, Apokryphen im frithen Islam: Gesam- melte Aufsdtze (OLIVER KAHL) Rella Kushelevsky, Moses and the Angel of Death (RicHARD BAUCKHAM David J. Lane, The Peshitta of Levicitus (ALISON SALVESEN) Jacob Lassner, Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam (G.R. HAWTING) Simon Lauer and Hanspeter Ernst (eds), Zempelkult und Tempelzer- storung (70n. Chr.): Festschrift fiir Clemens Thoma (LESTER L. GRABBE) Richard I. Lawless, From Ta‘iz to Tyneside: An Arab Community in the North-East ofE ngland during the Early Twentieth Century (FRED HAL- LIDAY) Alain Le Boulluec (ed.), La Controverse religieuse et ses formes (SEBAS- TIAN BROCK) Michael Lecker, Muslims, Jews and Pagans: Studies on Early Isalmic Medina (PATRICIA CRONE) Wolf Leslau, Gurage Studies: Collected Articles (DAVID APPLEYARD) Lynn R. LiDonnici, The Epidaurian Miracle Inscriptions: Text, Trans- lation and Commentary (J.L. NORTH) Norbert Lohfink, Theology of the Pentateuch: Themes of the Priestly Narrative and Deuteronomy (WALTER MOBERLY) Muhsin Mahdi, The Thousand and One Nights (EVA SALLIS) J.G. McConville and J.G. Millar, Time and Place in Deuteronomy (PHILIP JENSON) William S. Morrow, Scribing the Center: Organization and Redaction in Deuteronomy 14 :1—17:13 (ANDREW MAYES) Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman (eds), History of Islamic Philosophy, Volumes | and II (JAwID MOjADDED!) Jacob Neusner, Androgynous Judaism: Masculine and Feminine in the Dual Torah (NINA L. COLLINS) Albrecht Noth and Lawrence I. Conrad, The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source-Critical Study (HUGH KENNEDY) David Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe, Volume II: The City of Rome (PAUL TREBILCO) Saul M. Olyan, A Thousand Thousands Served Him: Exegesis and the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism (C.R.A. MORRAY-JONES) FA. Pennachietti, // Ladrone e il Cherubino: Dramma Liturgico Cris- tiano Orientale in Siriaco a Neoarmaico (SEBASTIAN BROCK) 474 David L. Petersen, Zechariah 9-14 and Malachi: A Commentary (RICHARD COGGINS) Kenneth E. Pomykala, The Davidic Dynasty Tradition in Early Judaism: Its History and Significance for Messianism (GtORGE J. BROOKE) Rosemary Quiring Zoche, Arabische Handschriften, Volume III (G. REx SMITH) Raji M. Rammuny and Dilworth B. Parkinson (eds), /ivestigating Arabic: Linguistic, Pedagogical and Literary Studies in Honor of Ernest N. McCarus (YASIR SULEIMAN) Martin Ravndal Hauge, Between Sheol and Temple: Motif; Structure and Function in the I-Psalms (SUSAN GILLINGHAM) Paul L. Redditt, The New Century Bible Commentary: Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi (REX MASON) Rolf Rendtorff, Canon and Theology: Overtures to an Old Testament Theology (JAMES A. SANDERS) William Robertson Smith, Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, Second and Third Series, ed. John Day (WALTER J. HOUSTON) E.1.J. Rosenthal (ed.), Kommentar des Averroes zu Platons Politeia (OLIVER LEAMAN) Martha T. Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor (DaviD Marcus) Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods (HEATHER A. MCKay) Yona Sabar, The Book of Deuteronomy in Neo-Aramaic in the Dialect of the Jewish Community of Zakho, Including Selected Texts in Other Neo-Aramaic Dialects and a Glossary (STEVEN FASSBERG) Philip Sadgrove, Egyptian Theatre in the Nineteenth Century: 1799-1882 (M.M. BADAW1) Said F. Al-Said, Die Personennamen in den mindischen Inschriften: Eine etymologische und lexikalische Studie im bereich der semitischen Sprachen (HATOON A. ALFASSI) Alexander Scheidt, Das Kénigreich von al-Karak in der mamliikischen Zeit aus dem arabischen Geschichtswerk Muhammad Adnan al-Bahit iibersetzt und ausfiihrlich erldutert (CAROLE HILLENBRAND) Brian B. Schmidt, Jsrael’s Beneficent Dead: Ancestor Cult and Necro- mancy in Ancient Israelite Religion and Tradition (DENNIS PARDEE) Madeline Schneider, Mubarak al-Makki: An Arabic Lapicide of the Third/Ninth Century (SHEILA S. BLAIR) Heinz Schreckenberg, Die christlich Adversus-Judaeos-Texte und ihr literarisches und historisches Umfeld (1.-11. Jh.) (DAVID P. EFROYMSON) 475 Maya Shatzmiller, Labour in the Medieval Islamic World (C. EDMUND BOsWORTH) Boaz Shoshan, Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo (SHMUEL MOREH) Marti J. Steussy, Gardens in Babylon: Narrative and Faith in the Greek Legends of Daniel (PHILIP R. Davis) Baaha’ Taher, Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery (DEBBIE COx) Emanuel Tov (ed.), Qumran Cave 4, VIII: Parabiblical Texts, Part 1 (JAMES R. DAVILA) Steven Shaw Tuell, The Law of the Temple in Ezekiel 40-48 (ADRIAN H.W. Curtis) Helga Venzlaff, Al-Hudhud: eine Untersuchung zur kulturgeschicht- lichen Bedeutung des Wiedhopfs im Islam (HANNE SCHONIG) Harold C. Washington, Wealth and Poverty in the Instruction of Amenemope and the Proverbs (FRIEDEMANN W. GOLKA) Steven M. Wasserstrom, Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam (NORMAN A. STILLMAN) Josep Wehrle, Sprichwort und Weisheit: Studien zur Syntax und Seman- tik der tob ... min-Spriiche im Buch der Sprichwérter (FRIEDEMANN W. GOLKA) John William Wevers, Notes on the Greek Text of Genesis (A. VAN DER Kooy) Werner Weinberg (ed.), Essays on Hebrew (LEwis H. GLINERT) Ian Wilson, Out of the Midst of the Fire: Divine Presence in Deuteronomy (WALTER MOBERLY) Christopher J.H. Wright, Walking in the Ways of the Lord: The Ethical Authority of the Old Testament (J.T. WILLIAMS) Mauro Zonta, Un Interprete Ebreo della Filosofia di Galeno: gli scritti filosofici di Galeno nell'opera di Shem Tob ibn Falaquera (RESIANNE FONTAINE) SHORT NOTICES Gary A. Anderson and Michael E. Stone (eds), A Synopsis of the Books ofA dam and Eve (RICHARD BAUCKHAM) Harold Douglas Buckwalter and Mary Keil Shoaff, Guide to the Reference Systems for the Works of Flavius Josephus (GEORGE J. BROOKE) Kenneth M. Craig, Reading Esther: A Case for the Literary Carniva- lesque (JOHN COLDINGAY) Dane R. Gordon, Old Testament in its Cultural, Historical and Religious Context (KATHERINE J. DELL) Bernhard Lang (ed.), Jnternationale Zeitschriftenschau fiir bibelwis- senschaft und Grenzgebiete 40 (GEORGE J. BROOKE) William McKane, A Late Harvest: Reflections on the Old Testament (GEORGE J. BROOKE) Watson E. Mills, The Lutterworth Dictionary of the Bible (GEORGE J. 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