To the Madbar and Back Again

Studies in the Languages, Archaeology, and Cultures of Arabia Dedicated to Michael C.A. MacDonald
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35612-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 92, 714 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1202 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

Michael C.A. Macdonald is one of the great names of Arabian Studies. He pioneered the field of Ancient North Arabian and made invaluable contributions to the history of Arabia and the nomads of the Near East, their languages, and their scripts. This volume gathers thirty-two innovative contributions from leading scholars in the field to honor the career of Michael C.A. Macdonald, covering the languages and scripts of ancient Arabia, their history and archaeology, the Hellenistic Near East, and the modern dialects and languages of Arabia. The book is an essential part of the library of any who study the Near East, its languages and its cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nehmé, Laïla

Al-Jallad, Ahmad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Research of M.C.A. Macdonald
Publications of M.C.A. Macdonald
Tabula Gratulatoria
Tables and Figures
Contributors

Epigraphy and Philology

1 Les artisans et professions «?libérales?» dans le domaine nabatéen
Laila Nehmé

2 Anmerkungen zum safaitischen und althebräischen Onomastikon
Walter W. Müller

3 Safaitic Prayers, Curses, Grief and More from Wadi Salhub—North-Eastern Jordan
Hani Hayajneh

4 Notes on ?wb in Safaitic
Chiara Della Puppa

5 Traditional Music or Religious Ritual? Ancient Rock Art Illumined by Bedouin Custom
Ali Al-Manaser

6 The Formularies and Their Historical Implications: Two Examples from Ancient South Arabian Epigraphic Documentation
Alessandra Avanzini

7 Ancient South Arabian Graffiti from Shabathan (Governorate of al-Bay?a?, Yemen)
Alessia Prioletta

8 Schreiben, meißeln, Fehler machen. Zur Funktion von Schrift im öffentlichen Raum im antiken Südarabien
Peter Stein

9 The Phonemes ? and ? in the Dadanitic Inscriptions
Fokelien Kootstra

10 Dadanitic Inscriptions from Jabal al-Khraymat (Mada?in ?ali?)
María del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacón Díez

11 Un sanctuaire de montagne?: Mushannaf
Maurice Sartre

12 Un pasteur et un soldat?? Deux inscriptions grecques d’?époque romaine à l’?est du Jabal ?awran
François Villeneuve

13 Méharistes et cavaliers romains dans le désert jordanien
Pierre-Louis Gatier

14 Goras, sanglier ou jeune lion (ou onagre)??
Jean-Baptiste Yon

15 A Lead Syriac Protective Talisman
Sebastian Brock

16 Two New Arabic Inscriptions: Arabian Castles and Christianity in the Umayyad Period
Robert Hoyland

17 The Etymology of ?atta
Ahmad al-Jallad

18 Are Libyco-Berber Horizontal ? and Vertical h the Same Sign?
Marijn van Putten

Archaeology, History and Religion

19 The Outer Wall of Tayma? and Its Dating to the Bronze Age
Arnulf Hausleiter

20 Pottery from the “Midianite Heartland”? On Tell Kheleifeh and Qurayyah Painted Ware. New Evidence from the Harvard Semitic Museum
Marta Luciani

21 A Caravan Merchant Family of ‘Antioch on the Chrysorhoas’. A Glimpse of Hellenistic Gerasa as a Caravanserai
Ina Kehrberg(-Ostrasz)

22 The Visit of Malik bin Mu?awiyah, King of Kindah and Ma??ig to the Himyarite King Šammar Yuhar?iš in Ma?rib
Mohammed Maraqten

23 Der rituelle Umzug des Yada??il ?ari? nach ?irwa?
Norbert Nebes

24 Sedentism of Arabs in the 8th–4th Centuries BC
Israel Eph?al

25 Reflections on Arab Leadership in Late Antiquity
Greg Fisher

26 A Paradise in the Desert: Iram at the Intersection of One Thousand and One Nights, Quranic Exegesis, and Arabian history
Orhan Elmaz

27 Mourning for the Dead and the Beginning of Idolatry in the Kitab al-A?nam and the Spelunca Thesaurorum—an Unknown Parallel to Surat at-Taka?ur (Q102)?
Konstantin M. Klein

28 Temple Inscriptions and “the Death of the God(s)”
John F. Healey

29 ‘The Conception of Jesus’
Hannah M. Cotton Paltiel

Modern Dialects and Tribes

30 Drink Long and Drink in Peace: Singing to Livestock at Water in Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman
Miranda J. Morris and Salim ?Awa??? Ahmad al-Sha?ri

31 South Arabian Sibilants and the S?er?¯t s~ ~ š Contrast
Alex Bellem and Janet C.E. Watson

32 Was There a “Bedouinisation of Arabia? Probably Not, at Least in the Way It Has so Far been Portrayed
William Lancaster and Fidelity Lancaster

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laila Nehmé, Ph.D. (1994) University of Paris I, is Director of Research at the CNRS since 2014. She received a knighthood in the Ordre National du Mérite, in 2010. She works on the development of Nabataean writing in Arabic scripture, and is compiling a corpus of Nabatéo-Arabic Texts (4th-5th centuries) on which she carries out paleographic and linguistics analyses.

Ahmad Al-Jallad, Ph.D. (2012) Harvard University, is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University. He has published on the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, the history of Arabic, and on the epigraphy of Ancient North Arabia, including An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions (Brill, 2015).