Syriac Manuscripts from Turfan: Public Worship and Private Devotion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1: Aramaic Studies
7. What to Do About Citing Ambiguity in a Corpus-Specific Lexicon 9
8. The Jewish Recension of a Syriac Version of Aesop’s Fables 61
9. Syriac Manuscripts from Turfan: Public Worship and Private Devotion 77
10. Greek Imperatives and Corresponding Expressions in Christian Palestinian Aramaic 97
11. Reading the Bible with the Taḥtāyā ḏa-Ṯlāṯā 109
12. A New Mandaic Dictionary: Challenges, Accomplishments, and Prospects 139
13. Qlido d-Leshono—Key of Language: A Comprehensive Syriac Lexicon by Abbot Yuyakim of Tur Islo 173
14. Psalm 2 in Syriac: Issues of Text and Language 179
15. Part 2: Hebrew Studies
16. A Few Notes concerning the Reading of הסירותי in the Great Isaiah Scroll (Isa 50:6b) 201
17. Cognitive Methodology in the Study of an Ancient Language: Impediments and Possibilities 213
18. Towards a Science of Comparative Classical Hebrew Lexicography 227
19. On Dating Biblical Hebrew Texts: Sources of Uncertainty / Analytic Options 247
20. A Re-Examination of Grammatical Categorization in Biblical Hebrew 273
21. Internationalisms in the Hebrew Press 1860s-1910s as a Means of Language Modernization 309
22. Part 3: Greek Studies
23. Preventing Drunkenness in the Christian Gathering: Hints from the Graeco- Roman World and the New Testament 331
24. Basileia or Imperium? Rome and the Rhetoric of Resistance in the Revelation to John 346
25. The Birth of European Linguistic Theory: The Idea of Language in the Sophists 365
26. Amazement, Fear and Being Troubled in Responses in Gospel Miracle Stories: Establishing the Semantic Contours of the Terms and their Interrelations 379
27. The Ass and the Lyre: On a Greek Proverb 413
28. Constituent Order in and Usages of εἰμί – Participle Combinations in the Synoptics and Acts 423
29. Redundancy, Discontinuity and Delimitation in the Epistle of James 443
30. An Examination of Metarepresentation as an Essential Feature of Written and Oral Communication 455
31. Prayer and the Papyri at Oxyrhynchus 471
32. The Lexicographic Editor and the Problem of Consistency 481