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How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from
western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented
and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the
Arabic language? The studies in this volume, the proceedings of a
scholarly conference, address different aspects of this question.
They include discussions of the religious concepts found in Arabia
in the centuries preceding the rise of Islam, which reflect the
presence of polytheism and of several varieties of monotheism
including Judaism and Christianity. Also discussed at length are
the complexities surrounding the way languages of the Arabian
Peninsula were written in the centuries before and after the rise
of Islam-including Nabataean and various North Arabian dialects of
Semitic-and the gradual emergence of the now-familiar Arabic script
from the Nabataean script originally intended to render a dialect
of Aramaic. The religious implications of inscriptions from the
pre-Islamic and early Islamic centuries receive careful scrutiny.
The early coalescence of the Qur'an, the kind of information it
contains on Christianity and other religions that formed part of
the environment in which it first appeared, the development of
several key Qur'anic concepts, and the changing meaning of certain
terms used in the Qur'an also form part of this rich volume.
Akkadian, a Semitic language attested in writing from 2600 BCE
until the first century CE, was the language of Mesopotamia for
nearly three millennia. This volume examines the language from a
comparative and historical linguistic perspective. Inspired by the
work of renowned linguist John Huehnergard and featuring
contributions from top scholars in the field, Be l Lisa ni
showcases the latest research on Akkadian linguistics. Chapters
focus on a wide range of topics, including lexicon, morphology,
word order, syntax, verbal semantics, and subgrouping. Building
upon Huehnergard's pioneering studies focused on the identification
of Proto-Akkadian features, the contributors explore linguistic
innovations in the language from historical and comparative
perspectives. In doing so, they open the way for further
etymological, dialectical, and lexical research into Akkadian. An
important update on and synthesis of the research in Akkadian
linguistics, this volume will be welcomed by Semitists, Akkadian
language specialists, and scholars and students interested in
historical linguistics. In addition to the editors, the
contributors to this volume include Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Oyvind
Bjoru, Maksim Kalinin, N. J. C. Kouwenberg, Sergey Loesov, Jacob J.
de Ridder, Ambjoern Sjoers, Michael P. Streck, and Juan-Pablo Vita.
Upon its publication in 2002, Josef Tropper’s Altäthiopisch:
Grammatik des Gəˁəz mit Übungstexten und Glossar was quickly
recognized as the best modern grammar of Classical Ethiopic in any
language. Now Eisenbrauns makes Tropper’s grammar available for
the first time in English, in this revised and expanded edition by
Josef Tropper and Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee. Gəˁəz literature is
diverse and of major importance for the study of early
Christianity, Judaism, and the history of eastern Africa. The
language of this rich literature, however, has been difficult to
access until now. Designed to help language learners acquire
competency with the script from the start, Classical Ethiopic
provides a comprehensive treatment of Gəˁəz grammar, with
detailed chapters on the language’s writing system, phonology,
morphology, morphosyntax, and syntax. Numerous example sentences
illustrate the grammatical concepts discussed, and each example is
presented in Ethiopic script, transliteration, and English
translation. The grammar concludes with an appendix presenting
sample texts to be used as exercises, an English-Gəˁəz glossary,
and an updated bibliography that takes into account the
developments that have occurred in the study of Gəˁəz in the
nearly two decades since Tropper’s original publication.
Appropriate for the classroom and for independent study, Classical
Ethiopic is sure to become the standard reference in English for
the study of the language.
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