Ahmad al-Jallad is Associate Professor in the Departmentof Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University; his work focuses on the languages and writing systems of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsList of Tables and FiguresBibliographyContributions 1. The History of Arabic through Its Texts2. The Psalm Fragment: Script, Phonology, and Morphology3. Dating and Localizing the Document, Writing System, and Language4. Old Arabic, Middle Arabic, and Old Higazi5. Edition of the Arabic Columns of the Damascus Psalm Fragment Appendix 1 Beyond Arabic in Greek Letters: The Scribal and Translational Context of the Violet Fragment Appendix 2 Pre-Islamic Graeco-Arabic Texts Index

Ahmad al-Jallad is Associate Professor in the Departmentof Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University; his work focuses on the languages and writing systems of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsList of Tables and FiguresBibliographyContributions 1. The History of Arabic through Its Texts2. The Psalm Fragment: Script, Phonology, and Morphology3. Dating and Localizing the Document, Writing System, and Language4. Old Arabic, Middle Arabic, and Old Higazi5. Edition of the Arabic Columns of the Damascus Psalm Fragment Appendix 1 Beyond Arabic in Greek Letters: The Scribal and Translational Context of the Violet Fragment Appendix 2 Pre-Islamic Graeco-Arabic Texts Index

Ahmad al-Jallad is Associate Professor in the Departmentof Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University; his work focuses on the languages and writing systems of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsList of Tables and FiguresBibliographyContributions 1. The History of Arabic through Its Texts2. The Psalm Fragment: Script, Phonology, and Morphology3. Dating and Localizing the Document, Writing System, and Language4. Old Arabic, Middle Arabic, and Old Higazi5. Edition of the Arabic Columns of the Damascus Psalm Fragment Appendix 1 Beyond Arabic in Greek Letters: The Scribal and Translational Context of the Violet Fragment Appendix 2 Pre-Islamic Graeco-Arabic Texts Index