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Journal of Semitic Studies LVIII/2 Autumn 2013 doi: 10.1093/jss/fgr031 © The author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalfof the University of Manchester. All rights reserved. JOURNAL OF SEMITIC STUDIES VOLUME LVIII (2013) INDEX ARTICLES SIAM BHAYRO, ROBERT HAWLEY, GRIGORY KESSEL and PETER E. PORMANN, “The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: Progress, Prospects and Problems’ PETER BEKINS, ‘Non-Prototypical Uses of the Definite Article in Bib- lical Hebrew’ DOMENYK EADEs and MARIA PERSSON, “‘Aktionsart, Word Form and Context: On the Use of the Active Participle in Gulf Arabic Dia- lect’ GEULA ELIMELEKH, ‘Kafkaesque Metamorphosis as Reflected in the Works of Samir Naqqash’ GEOFFREY HERMAN, “The Passion of Shabur, Martyred in the 18" year of Yazdgird with a Fragment of the Life of Mar Aba Catholicos’ JOHN HUEHNERGARD and SAUL M. OLYAN, “The Etymology of Hebrew and Aramaic yl ‘to be able’ SALMAN ILAIYAN and KHALID SINDAWE, “Verb Derivations from the Names of Countries and Peoples in the Middle East and Around the World’ BAHAA’ AMER AL-JUBOURI, ‘An Aramaic Incantation Text’ DANIEL KING, “Grammar and Logic in Syriac (and Arabic)’ TARSEE LI, ‘Syriac Enclitic Pronouns Added to més and =’ ADAM MCCOLLUM, ‘Prolegomena to a New Edition of Eliya of Nisi- bis’s Kitab al-turjuman fi ta‘lim lugat al-suryan’ YIFAT MONNICKENDAM, ‘Articulating Marriage: Ephrem’s Legal Ter- minology and its Origins’ MIKHAL OREN, ‘Interference in Ancient Languages as Evidenced by Governed Prepositions’ David Presor, “The Restricted Semantic Field of Property in Mishnaic Hebrew’ ELIZABETH Ropar, *Wayyigtol as an Unlikely Preterite’ 445 OrTAL-PAZ SAAR, ‘An Incantation Bowl for Sowing Discord’ JANET C.E. WATSON, DOMENYK EADES and MOHAMMED AHMAD AL-MAHRI, ‘Camel Culture and Camel Terminology among the Omani Bedouin’ Davip WILMSEN, ‘Grammaticalization of the Arabic Demonstrative iyya- as a Pronominal Object Marker in Ditransitive Verbs: An Answer to Bravmann’ REVIEWS Daphna ARBEL, J.R.C. COUSLAND and Dietmar NEUFELD, ...And So They Went Out: The Lives ofA dam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story (Brian MURDOCH) Joshua BLAu, Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew: An Intro- duction (J.F. ELWOLDE) F. BRIQUEL CHATONNET, Alain DESREUMAUX and Jacob THEKEPARAMPIL. Receuil des inscriptions syriaques (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles- Lettres). Tome 1. KéralaAmit HARRAK. Receuil des inscriptions syriaques (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). Tome 2. Iraq: Syriac and Garshuni Inscriptions (1. Text; 2. Plates (John F. HEALEY) Anna CONTADINI, A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitab Na't al-Hayawan) in the Ibn Bakhtishia‘ Tradition (Oliver KAHL) Jan Dietricn, Kollektive Schuld und Haftung: Religions- und rechts- geschichtliche Studien zum Siihnekuhritus im Deuteronomium und zu verwandten Texten (Thomas ROMER) A. Joseph EVERSON AND Hyun Chul Paut KIM (eds), The Desert Will Bloom: Poetic Visions in Isaiah (Thomas L. LECLERC) Helmut FREYDANK and Barbara FELLER, Mittelassyrische Rechtsurkunden und Verwaltungstexte, 1X (Salvatore GASPA) Roni HENKIN, Negev Arabic: Dialectal, Sociolinguistic and Stylistic Variation (Alexander MAGIDOW) Robert J.V. HIEBERT (ed.), “Translation is Required’: The Septuagint in Retrospect and Prospect (Jennifer DINES) Jonathan Jacoss, Law, Reason, and Morality in Medieval Jewish Phi- losophy: Saadia Gaon, Bahya ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides (Oliver LEAMAN) Yelena KOLYADA, A Compendium of Musical Instruments and Instru- mental Terminology in the Bible (Richard DUMBRILL) 446 Erkki KOSKENNIEMI and Pekka LINDQVIST, Rewritten Biblical Figures (Anja KLEIN) Renaud J. Kuty, Studies in the Syntax of Targum Jonathan to Samuel (E. VAN STAALDUINE-SULMAN) Daniel R. LANGTON, The Apostle Paul in the Jewish Imagination: A Study of Modern Jewish-Christian Relations (David FOX SANDMEL) Maiménides, Leyes sobre el matrimonio (Hilkot Ishut) del Mishné Tord. Introduccién traduccién y notas por O. Ruiz Morell y A. Salvatierra Osorio (Guadalupe SEIJAS DE LOS RIOS-ZARZOSA) David MIANO, Shadow on the Steps: Time Measurement in Ancient Israel (Helen R. JACOBUS) John PETERSON, Historical Muscat (Richard DAVEY) David H. Price, Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jew- ish Books (Gareth LLOYD JONES) Elisha QIMRON, The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew Writings: Volume One (Ariel FELDMAN) J.C. Reeves, Prolegomena to a History of Islamicate Manichaeism, Com- parative Islamic Studies (Samuel LIEU) Christopher A. ROLLSTON, Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel: Epigraphic Evidence from the Iron Age (K. Martin HEIDE) L.H. SCHIFFMAN, Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History ofJ udaism (Ariel FELDMAN) Sarah SHECTMAN and Joel S. BADEN (eds), The Strata of the Priestly Writings: Contemporary Debate and Future Directions (Victor H. MATTHEWS) Musa SHAWARBAH, A Grammar of Negev Arabic: Comparative Studies, Texts and Glossary in the Bedouin dialect of the ‘Azazmih Tribe (Alexander MAGIDOW) Hans Ulrich STEYMANS (ed.), Gilgamesch: Ikonographie eines Helden / Gilgamesh. Epic and Iconography (Stephanie DALLEY) Michael E. STONE, Aryeh AMIHAY and Vered HILLEL (eds), Noah and His Book(s) (Ariel FELDMAN) Yasir SULEIMAN, Arabic, Self and Identity: A Study in Conflict and Displacement (Eirlys E. DAVIES) Marcus K.M. Tso, Ethics in the Qumran Community (Matthew GOFF) Raymond WESTBROOK and Bruce WELLS, Everyday Law in Biblical Israel. An Introduction. (Bernard S$. JACKSON) Stefan WENINGER in collaboration with Geoffrey KHAN, Michael P. STRECK and Janet C.E. WATSON (eds), The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook (Ahmad AL-JALLAD) Andreas WETTER, Das Argobba: Eine deskriptive Grammatik der Vari- etdt von Shonke und Tollaha (Aaron D. RUBIN) K. Lawson YOUNGER JR (ed.), Ugarit at Seventy-Five, (Adrian H.W. CURTIS) SHORT NOTES B.D. Biss, Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus (Philip JENSON) John T. FitZGERALD, Fika J. VAN RENSBURG and Herri F. VAN Rooy (eds), Animosity, the Bible and Us: Some European, North Amer- ican, and South African Perspectives (Alex P. JASSEN) Giovanni GARBINI, Dio della terra, Dio del cielo: Dalle religioni semi- tiche al giudaismo e al cristianesimo (Wilfred G.E. WATSON) Alastair G. HUNTER, An Introduction to the Psalms (Adrian H.W. CURTIS) Diana LipTON (ed.), Universalism and Particularism at Sodom and Gomorrah: Essays in Memory of Ron Pirson (Walter J. HOUSTON) Sergio PERNIGOTTI, L’Egitto di Ramesse II tra Guerra e pace (K.A. KITCHEN) Eileen M. SCHULLER and Carol A. Newsom, The Hodayot (Thanks- giving Psalms): A Study Edition of 1QH* (Pieter B. HARTOG) Itamar SINGER, The Calm before the storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the end of the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant (Lindy CREWE) John H. WALTON, Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology (Ronald HENDEL) John W. Watt, Rhetoric and Philosophy from Greek into Syriac (Sebastian BROCK) REVIEWERS Al-Jallad, A., Weninger, Khan, Streck and Watson Brock, S., Watt Crewe, L., Singer Curtis, A.H.W., Hunter, Younger Dalley, S., Steymans Davey, R., Petersen Davies, E.E., Suleiman Dines, J., Hiebert Dumbrill, R., Kolyada Elwolde, J.F., Blau Feldman, A., Stone, Amihay and Hillel, Qimron, Schiffmann Fox Sandmel, D. Langton Gaspa, S., Freydank and Feller Goff, M., Tso Hartog, P.B., Schuller and Newsom Healey, J.F., Briquel Chatonnet, Desreumaux and Thekeparampil, Harrak Heide, K.M., Rollston Hendel, R., Walton Houston, W.J., Lipton Jackson, B.S., Westbrook and Wells Jacobus, H.R., Miano Jassen, A.P., Fitzgerald, van Rensburg and van Rooy Jenson, P. Bibb Kahl, O., Contadini Kitchen, K.A., Pernigotti Klein, A., Koskenniemi and Lindqvist Leaman, O, Jacobs Leclerc, T.L., Everson and Kim Lieu, S., Reeves Lloyd Jones, G., Price Magidow, A., Henkin, Shawarbah Matthews, V.H., Shectman and Baden Murdoch, B., Arbel, Cousland and Neufeld Rémer, T., Dietrich Rubin, A.D., Wetter Seijas De Los Rios-Zarzosa, G., Morell and Osorio van Staalduine-Sulman, E., Kuty Watson, W.G.E., Garbini