IOS Annual Volume 21. “Carrying a Torch to Distant Mountains”

Yoram Cohen, Ph.D. (2003), Harvard University, is Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. He has published four monographs on Hittite society, scribal schools at Emar, wisdom literature, and omen literature, in addition to multiple studies on Bronze Age Syria. Amir Gilan, Ph.D. (2009), Leipzig University, is Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has written extensively on Hittite history, literature, and religion, including Formen und Inhalte althethitischer historischer Literatur (Texte der Hethiter 29, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2015). Letizia Cerqueglini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Pisa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, is Lecturer of Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She has published monographs and articles on Semitic languages, cognition, and culture, including Object-based Selection of Spatial Frames of Reference in aṣ-Ṣāniʕ Arabic (Pisa University Press, 2015). Beata Sheyhatovitch, Ph.D. (2016), Tel Aviv University, is Lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. She has published a monograph on the distinctive terminology in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī and articles on the medieval Arabic linguistic tradition.

• EditorialPart 1 The Ancient Near East1 “I Am Carrying a Torch to the Faraway Mountains”: An Old Babylonian Bilingual Personal Prayer and Its Textual TransmissionUri Gabbay and Nathan Wasserman2 The Campaign against the Suteans and the Project in The Land of Mukiš: A Consideration of Letters RSO 23 28–36, and 39 from the House of Urtenu in UgaritYoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla3 The Editorial Technique of Resumptive Repetition: The Cosmogony and the Anthropogony in Enūma ElišNoga Ayali-Darshan4 On Aramaic Loanwords in Neo- and Late-babylonian Texts: Introduction and Semantic-Topical Taxonomy (Part One)Ran ZadokPart 2 Semitic Languages and Linguistics5 Phonological Peculiarities of Palestinian FolksongsWerner Arnold6 Is Old Egyptian dp.t, ‘Ship’, a Bronze Age Afroasiatic Isogloss? An Etymological and Archaeological VignetteAlexander Borg7 Ancient Egyptian Words in Modern South Arabian LanguagesLetizia Cerqueglini8 Remarks on the Christian Neo-aramaic Dialect of ShaqlawaGeoffrey Khan9 The Arabic Dialects of the Jezreel Plain and the Hula Valley (Galilee): Grammatical Notes, Remarks on Linguistic Contact, and TextsStephan Procházka10 The Loss of the Infinitive and Its Replacement by the Imperfect in Christian Palestinian AramaicChristian Stadel11 Some Remarks about Laryngeal Rules in TigreRainer M. VoigtPart 3 Arabic Language and Literature12 Cognitive Verbs as a Strategy for Expressing Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in the QurʾānYehudit Dror13 Redundance and Suppression According to Sībawayhi and al-FarrāʾKees Versteegh14 The Term fāʾida in Pragmatic and Rhetorical Discussions by Arab GrammariansBeata Sheyhatovitch15 How (Not) to Read Pedagogical Grammars of Arabic: The Case of the Subjunctive MoodAlmog Kasher16 Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on the Structure of the Adverbial Accusative of Cause and Purpose (al-mafʿūl lahu) According to Arabic GrammariansArik SadanIndex