The IOS Annual Volume 21. "Carrying a Torch to Distant Mountains"

By Amir Gilan, Edited by Yoram Cohen, Letizia Cerqueglini

The IOS Annual Volume 21: "Carrying a Torch to Distant Mountains", brings forth cutting-edge studies devoted to a wide array of fields and disciplines of the Middle East. The three sections--the Ancient Near East, Semitic Languages and Linguistics, and Arabic Language and Literature--include sixteen articles. In the Ancient Near East section are studies devoted to Babylonian literature (Gabbay and Wasserman; Ayali-Darshan), history (Cohen and Torrecilla), and language (Zadok). The Semitic Languages and Linguistics section contains discussions about comparative Semitics--Egyptian and Modern South Arabic (Borg; Cerqueglini), Aramaic dialects (Khan; Stadel), Palestinian Arabic (Arnold; Proch zka), and Tigre and Ethiosemitic languages (Voigt). The final section of Arabic Language and Literature is devoted to ʿArabiyya and its grammarians (Dror, Versteegh, Sheyhatovitch, Kasher, and Sadan).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900449913X
• ISBN13: 9789004499133
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"