Semitic studies in honour of Edward Ullendorff /

Semitic studies in honour of Edward Ullendorff /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 367 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Italian
German
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; 47
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 47.
Subject:
Semitic philology.
Semitic philology.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12480905
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Varying Form of Title:Semitic studies in honor of Edward Ullendorff
Other authors / contributors:Ullendorff, Edward.
Khan, Geoffrey.
ISBN:9047415752
9789047415756
9004148345
9789004148345
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Restrictions unspecified
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Chiefly in English with one contribution in Italian and one in German.
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Summary:This is a Festschrift volume for the British Semitist Edward Ullendorff. It contains papers written by leading scholars in the fields of Semitic philology and Near Eastern history and literature. The contributions are wide-ranging, including linguistic studies of Ethiopian Semitic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek, also papers on ancient Near Eastern, biblical, Islamic and Ethiopian history and papers on Amharic and Modern Hebrew literature.
Other form:Print version: Semitic studies in honour of Edward Ullendorff. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005
Standard no.:10.1163/9789047415756
Table of Contents:
  • Semitic triradicalism and the biradical question / Gideon Goldenberg
  • Reflexes of *qatl forms in Geʻez / John Huehnergard
  • The decay of qattala/qātala in Geʻez / Andrezej Zaborski
  • Definite markers in modern Ethiopian Semitic languages / David L. Appleyard
  • Is neo-Aramaic a Semitic language? / Simon Hopkins
  • Some parallels in linguistic development between Biblical Hebrew and neo-Aramaic / Geoffrey Khan
  • The dativus ethicus in medieval Judaeo-Arabic / Joshua Blau
  • Form x of the verb in the Arabic dialects of eastern Arabia / Clive Holes
  • A Christian tradition of Hebrew vocalisation in medieval England / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
  • The script of Taiman / Giovanni Garbini
  • Venezia e Livorno nella toponomastica Araba / Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti
  • The etymology of anthrōpos : a suggestion / James Barr
  • Eheu, fugaces / Raphael Loewe
  • More than marginal : Ugarit in its eastern Mediterranean setting / John F. Healey
  • A questionable theory of Egyptian influence on a genre of Hebrew literature / John Emerton
  • Isaiah, Micah and Qumran / Hugh G.M. Williamson
  • Psalm 135(136):25 in a Jewish Greek inscription from Nicaea / Alison Salvesen
  • Dinah in a Syriac poem on Joseph / Sebastian Brock
  • Two notes on the Ethiopic text of Ezekiel / Michael Knibb
  • Die äthiopischen Handschriften der Sammlung Bongarsiana codices / Veronika Six
  • An archaic Amharic poem on condemning wealth and glory / Getatchew Haile
  • Innovation and misoneism during the reign of Emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia (1872-1889) / Richard Pankhurst
  • Towards a biography of Niẓām al-Mulk : three sources from Ibn al-ʻAdīm / C. Edmund Bosworth
  • Jean Juster and the study of Jews under Roman rule / Martin Goodman
  • Dante and modern Hebrew literature / Glenda Abramson
  • Humour in the novels of Peretz Smolenskin / David Patterson.

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