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The Literature of Ancient Sumer
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 54.99Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs, and love poetry, provides a stimulating insight into the world's first urban civilization. Written in clear, accessible English, these translations are the most comprehensive collection... more...
Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 41.95This new edition of Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf has been revised and updated to make learning this variety of Arabic easier and more enjoyable than ever before Specially written by an expert for self-study and classroom use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to spoken Arabic of the Gulf, together with an introduction to... more...
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 25.95Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place,... more...
Arabic Dialectology
BRILL 2009; US$ 166.00This book offers a fresh look at Arabic data in a collection of thought-provoking, new articles written by some of the best known scholars in the field. The contributors discuss topics in historical, social and spatial dialectology focusing on Arabic data investigated within modern analytical frameworks. more...
Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts
BRILL 2007; US$ 216.00Comprises an analysis of 112 divine epithets occurring in the alphabetic cuneiform texts from Ras Shamra and Ras Ibn Hani. This study of the divine epithets in the Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform texts from Ras Shamra and Ras Ibn Hani provides a new and comprehensive analysis of the epithets of the individual Ugaritic deities. more...
Approaches to Arabic Linguistics
BRILL 2007; US$ 390.00Covers Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic grammar. more...
The Grammar of Perspective
BRILL 2008; US$ 189.00Taking a functional-typological approach, this work argues that the Sumerian conjugation prefixes, in their primary function, constitute a system of grammatical voice, in which the active voice is set against the middle voice. These prefixes are, in turn, represented by heavy and light markers that differ with respect to focus and emphasis. more...
Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art
BRILL 2006; US$ 177.00Offering an analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings, this book addresses poetry dueling as a performative and compositional device, and explores the complex linkages between this tradition and other genres of Arabic poetry. more...
A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 29.70With scrupulous attention to landmark poetic texts and to educational and critical discourse in early 20th-century Palestine, Miryam Segal traces the emergence of a new accent to replace the Ashkenazic or European Hebrew accent in which almost all modern Hebrew poetry had been composed until the 1920s.... more...
The World's Oldest Literature
BRILL 2010; US$ 287.00To propagate the invention of writing, the Sumerians established scribal schools which preserved and transmitted the accumulated wisdom of the past, usually in poetic form. The literature thus created has been studied by the author for half a century. This title assembles his conclusions that are important for biblicists. more...









