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Journal of Semitic Studies LVI/2 Autumn 2011 doi: 10.1093/jss/fgs033 © The author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester. All rights reserved. JOURNAL OF SEMITIC STUDIES VOLUME LVI (2012) INDEX ARTICLES Alexander ANDRASON, “Cognitive Foundations of the Old Babylonian Iparras Jelle BRUNING, ‘Yasuf b. Ibrahim b. Al-Daya (3"4/9" c.): A Study into his Life and Works’ Dorit GOTTESFELD, “Women Painting: Use of Colour in the Works of Raja’ Bakriyya’ Oliver KAHL, “The Prolegomena to Sabir Ibn Sahl’s Small Dispensatory Yoo-ki KIM, “The Origin of the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Construct’ George KiRAZ, ‘Old Syriac Graphotactics’ Aaron KOLLER, “Diachronic Change and Synchronic Readings: Midrashim on Stative Verbs and Participles’ Dan LEVENE and J.N. Forpb, “For Ahata-de-’abuh daughter of Imma”, Two Aramaic Incantation Bowls in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (VA 2414 and VA 2426)’ Andrew MarRSHAM, “The Pact (amdna) between Mu‘awiya ibn Abi Sufyan and ‘Amr ibn al-‘As (656 or 658 CE): “Documents” and the Islamic Historical Tradition’ Alessandro MENGOZZI, “That I might speak and the ear listen to me!”: On Genres in Traditional Modern Aramaic Literature’ E.J. REVELL, “The Occurrence of Pausal Forms’ Zeyad AL-SALAMEEN AND Hani FALAHAT, “Two New Nabataean Inscriptions from Wadi Misa, with Discussion of Gaia and the Marzéa Khalid SinDawiI, “Tell your Cousin to Place a Ring on his Right Hand and Set it with a Carnelian”: Notes on Wearing the Ring on the Right Hand among Shi'ites’ Zahia SMaIL SALHI and Abeer ABBaSI, ‘Astrology between Poetics and Politics in the Abbasid Period: Abd al-‘Ala’ al-Ma‘arri as Case Study’ REVIEWS Lorenzo D’ALFONSO, Yoram COHEN and Dietrich SURENHAGEN (eds), The City of Emar among the Late Bronze Age Empires. History, Land- scape, and Society: Proceedings of the Konstanz Emar Conference, 25.— 26.04. 2006 (W.G.E. WATSON) Amine BEYHOM, Théories de l'Echelle et Pratiques Mélodiques chez les Arabes — Une approche Systématique et Diachronique: Tome I, Théories Gréco-Arabes de Kindi a Tiisi (Richard DUMBRILL) Judith M. BLaiR, De-Demonising the Old Testament (Bob BECKING) Joseph BLENKINSOPP, Judaism the First Phase: The Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins ofJ udaism (Zev FARBER) Alejandro F. Botta, The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach (Baruch A. LEVENE) Scott N. CALLAHAM, Modality and the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute (T. MURAOKA) John J. COLLINs, Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Alison SCHOFIELD) Patricia DUTCHER-WALLS (ed.), The Family in Life and in Death: The Family in Ancient Israel: Sociological and Archaeological Perspectives (Walter J.H oUsTON) Helmut FREYDANK and Barbara FELLER, Mittelassyrische Rechtsurkunden und Verwaltungstexte, VIII (Salvatore GASPA) Adam GACEK, Arabic Manuscripts: a Vademecum for Readers (Paul AUCHTERLONIE) Andreas GORKE and Gregor SCHOELER, Die dltesten Berichte iiber das Leben Muhammads: Das Korpus ‘Urwa ibn az-Zubair (Harry MUNT) Dougias J. GREEN, “7 Undertook Great Works”: The Ideology of Domestic Achievements in West Semitic Royal Inscriptions (Roger TOMES) C.G. HABERL, The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr (Matthew MORGENSTERN) Charles G. HABERL (ed.), Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (Zygmunt FRAJZYNGIER) Getatchew HAILE, Melaku TEREFE, Roger M. RUNDELL, Daniel ALEMU and Steve DELAMARTER Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Volume 1, Codices 1-105, Magic Scrolls 1-134; Steve DELAMARTER and Melaku TEREFE, Ethiopian Scribal Practice 1: 460 Plates for the Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (Michael KNIBB) Barbara JANDL, Altsiidarabische Inscriften auf Metall (Alessandra AVANZINI) Philip Peter JENSON, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah: A Theological Commentary (Russell Earl FULLER) Lily KAHN, The Verbal System in Late Enlightenment Hebrew (Steven E. FASSBERG) Fabian KAs, Die Mineralien in der arabischen Pharmakognosie: Eine Konkordanz zur mineralischen Materia medica der klassischen arabischen Heilmittelkunde nebst iiberlieferungsgeschichtlichen Studien (Oliver KAHL) Tarsee Li. The Verbal System of the Aramaic of Daniel: An Explanation in the Context of Grammaticalization (Edward M. COOK) Edward LiPINskI, Resheph: A Syro-Canaanite Deity (W.G.E. WATSON) Tyler D. MAYFIELD, Literary Structure and Setting in Ezekiel (Michael A. LYONS) Ronny Meyer, Das Zay: Deskriptive Grammatik einer Ostguragesprache (Athiosemitisch); Ronny MEYER, Wolane: Descriptive Grammar of an East Gurage Language (Ethiosemitic) (Aaron D. RUBIN) Harald Morzk! with Nicolet BOECKHOFF-VAN DER VOorRT and Sean ANTHONY, Analysing Muslim Traditions: Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghazi Hadith (Christopher MELCHERT) Scott J. NOEGEL and Gary A. RENDSBURG, Solomon's Vineyard: Literary and Linguistic Studies in the Song of Songs (Frances LANDY) Robert K. RITNER, The Libyan Anarchy: Inscriptions from Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, Translated with an Introduction and Notes (K.A. KITCHEN) Aaron D. RuBIN, The Mehri Language of Oman (Richard Davey) Irfan SHAHID, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Vol. II Part 2: Economic, Social, and Cultural History (C. Edmund Boswortn) Peter STEIN, Die altsiidarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstabchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in Miinchen. Band 1. Die Inschrif- ten der mittel- und spétsabaischen Periode. 1. Teil: Text, 2. Teil: Ver- zeichnisse und Tafeln. Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel Band 5 (Orhan ELMAZ) Hayim BEN YOSEF TAWIL, An Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew. Etymological-Semantic and Idiomatic Equivalents with Supple- ment on Biblical Aramaic (W.G.E. WATSON) 461 Marijke VAN DER VEEN, Consumption, Trade and Innovation: Exploring the Botanical Remains from the Roman and Islamic Ports at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Daniel Martin VARISCO) Royce M. Victor, Colonial Education and Class Formation in Early Judaism: A Postcolonial Reading (Erich S. GRUEN) SHORT NOTES Tedros ABRAHA, / Gadl di Abund Tawéldé-Mdadehn e di Abund Vittore. Edizione del testo etiopico etraduzione Italiana (Michael KNIBB) Selim FERRUH ADALI, The Scourge of God: The Umman-Manda and its Significance in the First Millennium B.C. (D.T. Potts) George BOHAS, Un poéte syriaque contemporain: Hanna Bahnan (Sebastian BROCK) Kevin J. CATHCART (ed.). The Correspondence of Edward Hincks. Volumes 2 (1850-1856) and 3 (1857-1866) (John F. HEALEY) John J. COLLINS and Daniel C. HARLOW (eds), The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (John F. HEALEY) Jennie R. EBELING, Women’s Lives in Biblical Times (Jenni WILLIAMS) Loren R. FISHER, Tales from Ancient Egypt: The Birth of Stories (George J. BROOKE) David FLUSSER, Judaism of the Second Temple Period. Volume 2: The Jewish Sages and Their Literature (George J. BROOKE) Germano GALVAGNO, Sulle vestigia di Giacobbe: Le riletture sacerdotali e post-sacerdotali dellitinerario del patriarc (George J. BROOKE) Baruch HALPERN (ed. Matthew J. ADAMS), From Gods to God: The Dynamics of Iron Age Cosmologies (Walter MOBERLY) Soren HO st, Verbs and War Scroll: Studies in the Hebrew Verbal System and the Qumran War Scroll (George J. BROOKE) TeresaJ .H ORNSBY and Ken STONE (eds), Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship (Susannah CORNWALL) Robert M. KERR, Latino-Punic Epigraphy (Francois BRON) Joel M. LEMON and Kent Harold RICHARDs (eds), Method Matters: Essays on the Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David L. Petersen (George J. BROOKE) M.C.A. MACDONALD, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia (John F. HEALEY) Joseph NAVEH, Studies in West-Semitic Epigraphy: Selected Papers (John F. HEALEY) Raymond F. PERSON JR. The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles: Scribal Works in an Oral World (Graeme AULD) Jason RADINE, The Book ofA mos in Emergent Judah (Hilary MARLOW) Paul L. REDDITT, /ntroduction to the Prophets (Adrian H.W. CurTIS) Henning Graf REVENTLOW, History ofB iblical Interpretation. Volume 1: From the Old Testament to Origen; Volume 2: From Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages; Volume 3: Renaissance, Reformation, Humanism; Volume 4: From the Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century (George J. BROOKE) Carole ROCHE, (ed.), D’Ougarit a Jérusalem. Recueil d'études épigra- phiques et archéologiques offert 4 Pierre Bordreuil (John F. HEALEY) R. SABBAGH, F. AYASH, J. BALTY, F. BRIQUEL CHATONNET and A. DESREUMAUX, Le martyrion Saint-Jean dans la moyenne vallée de l'Euphrate. Fouilles de la Direction Générale des Antiquités 4 Nabgha au nord-est de Jarablus (John F. HEALEY) Francesca STAVRAKOPOLOU and John BARTON (eds), Religious Diver- sity in Ancient Israel and Judah (Walter MOBERLY) Richard C. STEINER, Early Northwest Semitic Serpent Spells in the Pyramid Texts (Matthew MORGENSTERN) Christopher Woops, The Grammar of Perspective: The Sumerian Conjugation Prefixes as a System of Voice (Alasdair LIVINGSTONE) REVIEWERS Auchterlonie, P., Gacek Auld, G., Person Avanzini, A., Jandl Becking, B., Blair Bosworth, C.E., Shahid Brock, S., Bohas Bron, F., Kerr Brooke, G.J., LeMon and Richards, Fisher, Flusser, Galvagno, Holst, Reventlow Cook, E.M., Li Cornwall, S, Hornsby and Stone Curtis, A.H.W., Redditt Davey, R. Rubin Dumbrill, R., Beyhom Elmaz, O., Stein Farber, Z., Blenkinsopp Fassberg, S., Kahn Frajzyngier, Z., Haberl