The IOS annual. / Volume 21, : Carrying a torch to distant mountains / / Yoram Cohen [and three others] editors.

• Superior document: Israel Oriental Studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Cohen, Yoram, 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Israel oriental studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (473 pages)

This volume includes studies devoted to Babylonian literature, history and language and discussion about comparative Semitics-Egyptian and Modern South Arabic, Aramaic dialects, Palestinian Arabic and Tigre and Ethiosemitic languages. --Publisher

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Ancient Near East. "I am carrying a torch to the faraway mountains": an Old Babylonian bilingual personal prayer and its textual transmission / Uri Gabbay and Nathan Wasserman -- The campaign against the Suteans and the project in the Land of Mukiš: a consideration of Letters RSO 23 28-36, and 39 from the House of Urtenu in Ugarity / Yoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla -- The editorial technique of resumptive repetition: the cosmogony and the anthropogony in Enum̄a Eliš / Noga Ayali-Darshan -- On Aramaic loanwords in Neo- and Late-Babylonian texts: introduction and semantic-topical taxonomy (part one) / Ran Zadok -- Part 2: Semitic languages and linguistics. Phonological peculiarities of Palestinian folksongs / Werner Arnold / Is Old Egyptian dp.t, "Ship", a Bronze Age Afroasiatic isogloss? An etymological and archaeological vignette / Alexander Borg -- Ancient Egyptian words in modern south Arabian languages / Letizia Cerquedlini -- Remarks on the Christian Neo-aramaic dialect of Shaqlawa / Geoffrey Khan -- The Arabic dialects of the Jezreel Plain and the Hula Valley (Galilee): grammatical notes, remarks on linguistic contact, and texts / Stephan Procházka -- The loss of the infinitive and its replacement by the imperfect in Christian Palestinian Aramaic / Christian Stadel -- Some remarks about Laryngeal rules in Tigre / Rainer M. Voigt -- Part 3: Arabic language and literature. The use of cognitive verbs as a strategy for expressing subjectivity and intersubjectivity in the Quraʼān / Yehudit Dror -- Redundance and suppression according to Sībawayhi and al-al-Farrāʼ / Kees Versteegh -- The term Fāʼida in pragmatic and rhetorical discussions by Arab grammarians / Beata Shyhatovitch -- How (not) to read pedagogical grammars of Arabic: the case of the subjunctive mood / Almog Kasher -- Syntactic and semantic constraints on the structure of the adverbial accusative of cause and purpose (al-mafuʻūl lahu) according to Arabic grammarians / Arik Sadan.