IOS Annual Volume 22: “Telling of Olden Kings”

Yoram Cohen, Ph.D. (2003), Harvard University, is Professor of Assyriology and the Ancient Near East at Tel Aviv University. He has published four monographs on Hittite society, scribal schools at Emar, wisdom, 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 (2015).Nathan Wasserman, Ph.D. (1993), The Hebrew University, is Professor of Assyriology at the Hebrew University. He specializes in Akkadian literature of the Old Babylonian period. He has published six monographs on the literature, history, and grammar of the Old Babylonian period.Letizia Cerqueglini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Pisa/Ben-Gurion University, is Senior Lecturer of Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She has published monographs and articles on Semitic languages, cognition, and culture, including Space and Time in aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic. A Cross-Generational Study (2022).Beata Sheyhatovitch, Ph.D. (2016), Tel Aviv University, is Senior Lecturer 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 A Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II from Uruk in the Collection of David and Cindy Sofer, London, Displayed in the Bible Lands Museum JerusalemRocío Da Riva and Jamie Novotny2 On the Use of Personal Names in Neo-Babylonian EpistolographyYuval Levavi3 Scribal Confusion in Aramaic Renderings of Iranian Anthroponyms: A Preliminary StudyJan Tavernier and Annalisa Azzoni4 The Scribes of Borsippa in the First Millennium BC: A Preliminary SurveyRan ZadokPart 2 Semitic Languages and Linguistics5 Etymological Investigations on Jibbali/Śḥerέt AnthroponymsGiuliano Castagna6 Early Sabaic/ Gǝʿǝz Shared Lexical Stock: Retentions, Innovations and LoanwordsLetizia Cerqueglini7 The Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary RemarksMaciej Klimiuk and Maria LipnickaPart 3 Arabic Language and Literature8 Elements of Folktales in Modern Arabic Poetry—The First Half of the 20th CenturyJeries Khoury9 From a Canaanite Prostitute to an Israelite Wo/Man: On the Incarnations of Rahab in Early Muslim TraditionYolanda Yavor