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Journal of Semitic Studies LV/2 Autumn 2010 doi: 10.1093/jss/fgq055 © The author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester. All rights reserved. JOURNAL OF SEMITIC STUDIES VOLUME LV (2010) INDEX ARTICLES ALEXANDER ANDRASON, “The Akkadian Jprus from the Unidirec- tional Perspective’ GEORGE A. BEVAN and M. BARBARA REEVES, ‘A New Funerary Inscrip- tion from Humayma’ GERRIT Bos, ‘Medical Terminology in the Hebrew Tradition: Shem Tov Ben Isaac, Sefer ha-Shimmush, Book 30° FRANCOISE BRIQUEL CHATONNET and ALAIN DESREUMAUX, ‘A Study and Characterization of the Syro-Malabar Script AARON MICHAEL BuTTS and HUMPHREY HILL Harpy II, ‘A Revised Reading of a Nabataean Inscription from Umm al-Jimal’ PATRICIA CRONE and ADAM SIVERSTEIN, ‘The Ancient Near East and Islam: The Case of Lot Casting’ JAMES DICKINS, ‘Basic Sentence Structure in Sudanese Arabic’ MIRIAM GOLDSTEIN, “Arabic Composition 101” and the Early Develop- ment of Judaeo-Arabic Bible Exegesis’ BAHAA AMER AL-JUBOURI, ‘Nouvelles inscriptions araméennes du temple de Nannay a Hatra’ OLIVER KAHL, “Two Antidotes from the “Empiricals” of Ibn at-Tilmid’ ROBERT S. KAWASHIMA, “Orphaned” Converted Tense Forms in Clas- sical Biblical Hebrew Prose’ SAM LIEBHABER, ‘Rhythm and Beat: Re-evaluating Arabic Prosody in the Light of Mahri Oral Poetry’ EDWARD LIPINSKI, ‘Le Gérondif en Phénicien’ SADOK MASLIYAH, “The Folk Songs of Iraqi Children: Part One’ SADOK MaASLIyah, “The Folk Songs of Iraqi Children: Part Two’ CYNTHIA L. MILLER, “Vocative Syntax in Biblical Hebrew Prose and Poetry: A Preliminary Analysis’ WILLIAM Morrow, ““To Set the Name” in the Deuteronomic Cen- tralization Formula: A Case of Cultural Hybridity’ 629 Tzvi Novick, ‘Naming Normativity: The Early History of the Terms Strat ha-din and Lifnim mii-sirat ha-din’ ABDULRAZZAK PATEL, ‘Language Reform and Controversy in the Nahda: Al-Shartiini’s Position as a Grammarian in Sahm AARON D. RuBIN, “The Development of the Amharic Definite Article and an Indonesian Parallel’ ABDULRAHMAN S. AL SALIMI, ‘Identifying the (Ibadi/Omani) Siyar’ REVIEWS Mariano Gémez ARANDA, Dos Comentarios de Abraham ibn Ezra al Libro de Ester: Edicién critica, traduccion y estudio introductorio (Aaron D. RUBIN) Leora BATNITZKY, Leo Strauss and Emmanual Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (A.H. LESSER) Dérte BESTER, Kérperbilder in den Psalmen (Sue GILLINGHAM) Dvora BREGMAN, The Golden Way: The Hebrew Sonnet during the Renaissance and the Baroque (Arie SCHIPPERS) Billie Jean COLLINS, The Hittites and their World (Charles BURNEY) Edward M. Cook, A Glossary of Targum Onkelos: According to Alexander Sperber’ Edition (Aaron D. RUBIN) Stephanie DALLEY, Esther Revenge at Susa: From Sennacherib to Ahasuerus (Roger TOMES) Timothy EDWARDS, Exegesis in the Targum of the Psalms: The Old, the New, and the Rewritten (David M. STEC) Israel FINKELSTEIN and Amihai MAZar, edited by Brian B. SCHMIDT, The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel (Philip R. Davies) Elizabeth FRoop, Biographical Texts from Ramesside Egypt (Karl JANSEN-WINKELN) Robert GLEAVE, Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrines of the Akhbari Shii School (Andrew J. NEWMAN) Lester GRABBE (ed.), /srael in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron Ila (c. 1250-850 B.C.E.) Volume 1. The Archaeology (Matthew WHINCOP) Karel JONGELING, Handbook of Neo-Punic Inscriptions (Edward LIPINSK!) P.S.F. VAN KEULEN and W.Th. VAN PEURSEN (eds), Corpus Linguistics and Textual History: A Computer-Assisted Interdisciplinary Approach to the Peshitta (Jerome A. LUND) Geoffrey KHAN, Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan (C. Edmund BOsworRTH) Wilfred G. LAMBERT, Babylonian Oracle Questions (Alasdair LiviNG- STONE) Jill MippLemas, The Templeless Age: An Introduction to the History, Literature and Theology of the ‘Exile’ (Ralph W. KLEIN) Khaleel MOHAMMED and Andrew RIPPIN (eds), Coming to terms with the Qur'an. A volume in honor of Professor Issa Boullata (Stefan WILD) John A. Morrow (ed.), Arabic, Islam and the Allah Lexicon: How Language Shapes our Conception of God (Gerhard BOWERING) Christa MULLER-KESSLER, Die Zauberschalentexte in der Hilprecht- Sammlung, Jena und weitere Nippur- Texte anderer Sammlungen (Matthew MORGENSTERN) Ehud Netzer, The Architecture of Herod, the Great Builder (Kay PRAG) Christophe NIHAN, From Priestly Torah to Pentateuch (Calum CARMICHAEL) Robert PHENIX, The Sermons on Joseph of Balai of Qenneshrin: Rhetoric and Interpretation in Fifth Century Syriac Literature (John W. WATT) Peter E. PORMANN (ed.), Rufus of Ephesus: On Melancholy (Oliver KAHL) Kay PraG, Excavations by K. M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967: Volume V. Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem (A. Asa EGER) Shmuel SAFRAI 5”t, Zeev SAFRAI, Joshua SCHWARTZ, and Peter J. TOMSON (eds), The Literature of the Sages, Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages ofR abbinic Literature (Ephraim NISSAN) Avi SAGI, The Open Canon: On the Meaning of Halakhic Discourse (Azzan YADIN) William M. SCHNIEDEWIND and Joel H. HUNT, A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature (Wilfred G.E. WATSON) Andrzej S. TURKANIK, Of Kings and Reigns: A Study of Translation Technique in the Gamma/Gamma Section of 3 Reigns (1 Kings) (J.M. DINES) Rainer VoiGT (ed.), From Beyond the Mediterranean: Aten des 7. Inter- nationalen Semitohamitistenkongresses (VII. ISHaK), Berlin 13, bis 15, Sep- tember 2004 (Aaron D. RUBIN) James W. Warts, Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture (Walter J. HOUSTON) Archie T. WRIGHT, The Origin of Evil Spirits (Philip R. Davies) 631 SHORT NOTES Fiona C. BLACK, The Recycled Bible: Autobiography, Culture, and the Space Between (Philip R. Davies) G. BoccaccINl (ed.), Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: Revisiting the Book of Parables (Maurice CASEY) Mark J. Boba, Daniel K. FALK and Rodney A. WERLINE (eds), Seeking the Favor of God. Volume 1: The Origins of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism; Volume 3: The Impact of Penitential Prayer beyond Second Temple Judaism (George J. BROOKE) Brian A. CATLOS, The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Mus- lims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300 (Anthony John Lappin) Lorenzo DiTomasso, The Dead Sea New Jerusalem Text: Contents and Contexts (Charlotte HEMPEL) Bart D. EHRMAN, Whose Word is It? The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why (George J. BROOKE) Frances FLANNERY, Colleen SHANTZ and Rodney A. WERLINE (eds), Experientia, Volume 1: Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity (George J. BROOKE) Andrew D. Gross, Continuity and Innovation in the Aramaic Legal Tradition (Stephen A. KAUFMAN) Hermann GUNKEL (edited and translated by K.C. Hanson), Jsrael and Babylon: The Babylonian Influence on Israelite Religion (Roger TOMES) Antti LAATO and Jacques VAN RUITEN (eds), Rewritten Bible Recon- sidered: Proceedings of the Conference in Karkku, Finland, August 24-26 2006 (George J. BROOKE) Bernard M. LEVINSON, ‘The Right Chorale’: Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (Walter J}. HOUSTON) Pekka LINDQVIST, Sin at Sinai: Early Judaism Encounters: Exodus 32 (Mila GINSBURSKAYA) Simo PARPOLA, Robert WHITING et al. (eds), Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary (Jonathan TAYLOR) Julius Heinrich PETERMANN, The Great Treasure or Great Book, commonly called “The Book of Adam”, the Mandaeans’ work of Highest Authority (Matthew MORGENSTERN) Melvin K.H. Perers (ed.), X//I Congress of the International Organi- zation for Septuagint and Cognate Studies: Ljubljana, 2007 (George J. BROOKE) Benjamin RICHLER, Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican Library Cata- logue (Renate SMITHUIS) David T. RUNIA and Gregory E. STERLING (eds), The Studia Philonica Annual: Studies ih. Hellenistic Judaism Volume XX.2008 (George J. BROOKE) Seth S. SANDERS (ed.), Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures (Alasdair LIVINGSTONE) James T. SPARKS, The Chronicler’s Genealogies: Towards an Under- standing of 1 Chronicles 1-9 (Brian E. KELLY) Giancarlo TOLONI, La sofferenza del giusto: Giobbe e Tobia a confronto (George J. BROOKE) Sidnie WHITE CRAWFORD, Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times (Ariel FELDMAN) REVIEWERS Bosworth, C.E., Khan Bowering, G., Morrow Brooke, G.J., Boda, Falk and Werline, Ehrman, Flannery, Shantz and Werline, Laato and van Ruiten, Peters, Runia and Sterling, Toloni Burney, C., Collins Carmichael, C., Nihan Casey, M., Boccaccini Davies, P.R., Black, Finkelstein and Mazar, Wright Dines, J.M., Turkanik Eger, A.A., Prag Feldman, A., White Crawford Gillingham, S., Bester Ginsburskaya, M., Lindqvist Hempel, C., DiTomasso Houston, W.J., Levinson, Watts Jansen-Winkeln, K., Frood Kahl, O., Pormann Kaufman, S.A., Gross Kelly, B.E., Sparks Klein, R.W., Middlemas Lappin, A.J., Catlos Lesser, A.H., Batnitzky Lipiriski, E., Jongeling Livingstone, A., Lambert, Sanders Lund, J.A., van Keulen and van Peursen 633