Clause Combining in Semitic: The circumstantial clause and beyond, edited by Bo Isaksson and Mari... more Clause Combining in Semitic: The circumstantial clause and beyond, edited by Bo Isaksson and Maria Persson. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 96. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015.
418 pages. ISBN 978-3-447-10405-0.
http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_947.ahtml
The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in co-operation between the Uppsala University, the Hebrew University in Jerusa-lem, Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. The questions put forward in the project were: How is hypotaxis marked in Semitic, other than by conjunctions? How does this affect the organization of texts? More specifically, what constitutes a circumstantial clause? To find an answer to these questions, all the major Semitic language families and some modern spoken Semitic dialects were surveyed within the project.
Thus, Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond examines how different kinds of clauses combine to a text in a number of Semitic languages (Ethio-Semitic not included). Specifically, many of its chapters examine how circumstantial clauses are coded in individual Semitic languages.
Contents of the volume:
Clause Combining in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö
Circumstantial Clause Linking in Egyptian Arabic Narration
Maria Persson
Non-main Clause Combining in Damascene Arabic:
A scale of markedness
Clause Combining in Written Arabic
Michal Marmorstein
The Domain of Verbal Circumstantial Clauses in Classical Arabic
Clause Combining in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson
The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew. A Clause Combining Approach
Clause Combining in Modern Spoken Aramaic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect
of Zakho
Clause Combining in Epigraphic South Arabian
Jan Retsö
The Problem of Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC) in Sabaean
Clause Combining in East Semitic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in Old Babylonian Akkadian
Index of terms
Page 212. ancient israelite priesthood 201 AXIAL TRANSFORMATIONS WITHIN ANCIENT ISRAELITE PRIESTH... more Page 212. ancient israelite priesthood 201 AXIAL TRANSFORMATIONS WITHIN ANCIENT ISRAELITE PRIESTHOOD ISRAEL KNOHL The rise of the prophets during the eighth century bce is commonly referred to as the Axial Age transformation of ancient Israel. ...
In spite of being one of the world's most important languages Arabic still lacks basic pedagogica... more In spite of being one of the world's most important languages Arabic still lacks basic pedagogical tools of good quality. This is a somewhat astonishing fact, considering the importance of the language, the long tradition of studying it in the West, and comparing it to other languages of similar dignity, like e.g. Chinese, which can boast of a plethora of first-class dictionaries, introductory textbooks and systematic and exhaustive grammatical descriptions. A person who wants to learn the 'language of angels' has to search for useful tools, often in vain. Practically all introductory textbooks are pedagogical and linguistic disasters with frequently unclear, when not incorrect, descriptions of basic grammar, and with texts characterized either by dullness, contents of the strangest kind or both. The modern grammatical descriptions are somewhat better, although suffering from the unsolved problem of how to handle the differences between the strongly normative medieval grammatical system with its obsession with 'right' and 'wrong' or even 'good' or 'bad' Arabic, and the numerous new phenomena in Modern Standard Arabic, MSA, the language of modern literature and media.
Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond, 2020
The Friday sermon in the mosque (which is not explicitly referred to in the Qur’an) has a structu... more The Friday sermon in the mosque (which is not explicitly referred to in the Qur’an) has a structure that has been practiced at least since the beginning of the 8th century. Several scholars have pointed out that its structure with a two-part sermon as the basic element can be derived from the Jewish (or Judaeo-Christian) sabbath service with its supplications, Torah-reading and subsequent supplications. Sources indicate, however, that the Islamic ceremony may have been quite different in the first Islamic century. The word minbar originally designated the throne of a ruler and has many parallels in the ancient Middle East and Ethiopia from where the word actually comes. It can be argued that the Friday sermon in the beginning was a proclamation of the ruler seated on a throne, a custom which was discarded by circles opposed to the Umayyads.
}IIDDLE ARABIC IN A COPTIC-ARABIC ¡IANUSCRIPT IN THE "RöHssKA KoNsrsLöJDlfusÉET", GöTEBoRG' sltED... more }IIDDLE ARABIC IN A COPTIC-ARABIC ¡IANUSCRIPT IN THE "RöHssKA KoNsrsLöJDlfusÉET", GöTEBoRG' sltEDEN ïn 1927 Ehe t'Röhsska Konstslôjdmuséet" in Gðteborg received a Coptic-Arabic manuscript as a gift from the laÈe sigfrid LindsÈam who probably had boughr it in Istanbul in l91l or 1912.1 The manuscript has the designation RKM 32-27 .2 The manuscript conrains the Coptic Eext of the baptismal riCual of the Cop-Èic Church with an Àrabic Eranslarion.3 It "or,"ists of 103 folios. It is Dating The ms. conrains two colophons by hand A rvhich run as follows: crTE ô-:e ¿¡$ o+.-ú¡ ¡¡øLi çP uuJ J¡s: f (15r) ,'so this vas compLeted on the 25th of Hatú¡ in the year 1305.r' 3t7 4 JAN RETSö dJL-Jl I ! r" rl pJr çr ÉLJo JbSJ É (93v) .:f t-+-Jl .,lt ,r< ¡4..! .¡-¿& e¡-b lr-rll ,¡ltLJl rlJt-î,-lJ ClTe 4jir*.| 7çt-5"+./t-, o:tlt l-lï;-, ,l¡+tl "So this was complered on Èhe blessed Tuesday, Ehe 28th of che blessed month of Kihak in the year 1305 of the pure, blessed and pious mart.yrs. Ifay God grant us their blessings! Amen." The year 1305 according Èo rhe Coptic ttEra of che I'tartyrsl is 1589 A.D. and the months Hatür and Kïhak correspond to November and December.5
Clause Combining in Semitic: The circumstantial clause and beyond, edited by Bo Isaksson and Mari... more Clause Combining in Semitic: The circumstantial clause and beyond, edited by Bo Isaksson and Maria Persson. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 96. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015.
418 pages. ISBN 978-3-447-10405-0.
http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_947.ahtml
The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in co-operation between the Uppsala University, the Hebrew University in Jerusa-lem, Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. The questions put forward in the project were: How is hypotaxis marked in Semitic, other than by conjunctions? How does this affect the organization of texts? More specifically, what constitutes a circumstantial clause? To find an answer to these questions, all the major Semitic language families and some modern spoken Semitic dialects were surveyed within the project.
Thus, Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond examines how different kinds of clauses combine to a text in a number of Semitic languages (Ethio-Semitic not included). Specifically, many of its chapters examine how circumstantial clauses are coded in individual Semitic languages.
Contents of the volume:
Clause Combining in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö
Circumstantial Clause Linking in Egyptian Arabic Narration
Maria Persson
Non-main Clause Combining in Damascene Arabic:
A scale of markedness
Clause Combining in Written Arabic
Michal Marmorstein
The Domain of Verbal Circumstantial Clauses in Classical Arabic
Clause Combining in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson
The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew. A Clause Combining Approach
Clause Combining in Modern Spoken Aramaic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect
of Zakho
Clause Combining in Epigraphic South Arabian
Jan Retsö
The Problem of Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC) in Sabaean
Clause Combining in East Semitic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in Old Babylonian Akkadian
Index of terms
Page 212. ancient israelite priesthood 201 AXIAL TRANSFORMATIONS WITHIN ANCIENT ISRAELITE PRIESTH... more Page 212. ancient israelite priesthood 201 AXIAL TRANSFORMATIONS WITHIN ANCIENT ISRAELITE PRIESTHOOD ISRAEL KNOHL The rise of the prophets during the eighth century bce is commonly referred to as the Axial Age transformation of ancient Israel. ...
In spite of being one of the world's most important languages Arabic still lacks basic pedagogica... more In spite of being one of the world's most important languages Arabic still lacks basic pedagogical tools of good quality. This is a somewhat astonishing fact, considering the importance of the language, the long tradition of studying it in the West, and comparing it to other languages of similar dignity, like e.g. Chinese, which can boast of a plethora of first-class dictionaries, introductory textbooks and systematic and exhaustive grammatical descriptions. A person who wants to learn the 'language of angels' has to search for useful tools, often in vain. Practically all introductory textbooks are pedagogical and linguistic disasters with frequently unclear, when not incorrect, descriptions of basic grammar, and with texts characterized either by dullness, contents of the strangest kind or both. The modern grammatical descriptions are somewhat better, although suffering from the unsolved problem of how to handle the differences between the strongly normative medieval grammatical system with its obsession with 'right' and 'wrong' or even 'good' or 'bad' Arabic, and the numerous new phenomena in Modern Standard Arabic, MSA, the language of modern literature and media.
Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond, 2020
The Friday sermon in the mosque (which is not explicitly referred to in the Qur’an) has a structu... more The Friday sermon in the mosque (which is not explicitly referred to in the Qur’an) has a structure that has been practiced at least since the beginning of the 8th century. Several scholars have pointed out that its structure with a two-part sermon as the basic element can be derived from the Jewish (or Judaeo-Christian) sabbath service with its supplications, Torah-reading and subsequent supplications. Sources indicate, however, that the Islamic ceremony may have been quite different in the first Islamic century. The word minbar originally designated the throne of a ruler and has many parallels in the ancient Middle East and Ethiopia from where the word actually comes. It can be argued that the Friday sermon in the beginning was a proclamation of the ruler seated on a throne, a custom which was discarded by circles opposed to the Umayyads.
}IIDDLE ARABIC IN A COPTIC-ARABIC ¡IANUSCRIPT IN THE "RöHssKA KoNsrsLöJDlfusÉET", GöTEBoRG' sltED... more }IIDDLE ARABIC IN A COPTIC-ARABIC ¡IANUSCRIPT IN THE "RöHssKA KoNsrsLöJDlfusÉET", GöTEBoRG' sltEDEN ïn 1927 Ehe t'Röhsska Konstslôjdmuséet" in Gðteborg received a Coptic-Arabic manuscript as a gift from the laÈe sigfrid LindsÈam who probably had boughr it in Istanbul in l91l or 1912.1 The manuscript has the designation RKM 32-27 .2 The manuscript conrains the Coptic Eext of the baptismal riCual of the Cop-Èic Church with an Àrabic Eranslarion.3 It "or,"ists of 103 folios. It is Dating The ms. conrains two colophons by hand A rvhich run as follows: crTE ô-:e ¿¡$ o+.-ú¡ ¡¡øLi çP uuJ J¡s: f (15r) ,'so this vas compLeted on the 25th of Hatú¡ in the year 1305.r' 3t7 4 JAN RETSö dJL-Jl I ! r" rl pJr çr ÉLJo JbSJ É (93v) .:f t-+-Jl .,lt ,r< ¡4..! .¡-¿& e¡-b lr-rll ,¡ltLJl rlJt-î,-lJ ClTe 4jir*.| 7çt-5"+./t-, o:tlt l-lï;-, ,l¡+tl "So this was complered on Èhe blessed Tuesday, Ehe 28th of che blessed month of Kihak in the year 1305 of the pure, blessed and pious mart.yrs. Ifay God grant us their blessings! Amen." The year 1305 according Èo rhe Coptic ttEra of che I'tartyrsl is 1589 A.D. and the months Hatür and Kïhak correspond to November and December.5
... 181-187). Anyone dealing withSemitic languages should have this fact in mind. Few scholars ..... more ... 181-187). Anyone dealing withSemitic languages should have this fact in mind. Few scholars ... the other. This process is probably still in full swing in the modern South Arabian languages Mehri, Jibbali etc. The arabisation of ...
When I visited Ṣirwāḥ in Yemen in 1992 together with my friend and colleague Manfred Kropp we wer... more When I visited Ṣirwāḥ in Yemen in 1992 together with my friend and colleague Manfred Kropp we were able to study the long inscription known as RÉS (= Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique) 3945 + 3946, which stands on a fundament inside the walls of the large temple at the site, describing the deeds of the Sabaean ruler Karibʾil Watar. We sat down on a stone close to the inscription and had a long and stimulating discussion about the language and contents of the text. A decade later when a team from the German Archaeological Institute in Ṣanʿāʾ directed by Dr. Iris Gerlach started systematic excavations of the temple, the stone on which we had been sitting was turned over and it appeared that it contained a similar large inscription, unknown until then. It contains a report of the deeds and achievements of Yiṯaʿʾamar Watar bin Yakrubmalik, mukarrib (MKRB) of Saba. The new inscription, now labelled DAI Ṣirwāḥ 2005-50, contains seven lines each 7 meters long consisting of 328 words altogether, which makes it one of the longest epigraphic texts ever found on the Arabian Peninsula. The text is in an excellent state of preservation and is, unlike RÉS 3945+3946, completely undamaged. The edition by N. Nebes is a true achievement containing everything that can be desired. The beautiful volume contains the following: the text itself in transcription (pp. 9-19), translation (pp. 10-12) and a thorough philological commentary (pp. 12-38), a survey of the structure of the text (pp. 39-41) followed by a similar survey of the Karibʾil Watar inscription (RÉS 3945+3946). Remarks on the linguistic peculiarities (pp. 45-47) and the palaeography (pp. 48-53) conclude the more technical part of the edition. Then comes a fascinating discussion on the dating (pp. 54-59) and the historical background of the text (pp. 60-72). To this are added sections presenting other inscriptions relevant for the large text (pp. 73-81). Among them we are given a new edition of the second part of Karibʾil Watar's report of his deeds (RÉS 3946) with a translation (pp. 81-87). The volume is rounded off with a vocabulary of the Sabaean words, a rich bibliography (pp. 88-106) and an instructive article by Iris Gerlach and Mike Schnelle giving the archaeological context of the inscription (pp. 108-116). The final section contains a series of maps of excellent quality (pp. 117-121) and a series of plates, likewise of excellent quality (pp. 122-148), with detailed close-ups of the whole text itself together with the other ones discussed in the volume. The plates are also available on a CD attached to the volume. The text describes three major military operations by Yiṯaʿʾamar. One is against WLD ʿM southeast of Marib, the entity which is later known as Qataban, another against the town Kaminahu in the Ğauf area north of Saba, and then a series of three connected campaigns against entities in the southwest (Map 3). The latter part of the text reports different land acquisitions (ʿS 1 Y) in the areas conquered. Nebes gives a fascinating sketch of the political development in South Arabia in the 8th-6th centuries BCE. Saba appears as a primus inter pares among several local entities in the region tied to the Sabaean rulers by some form of treaty (ʾH̱ WN, ʾH̱ WT). Every entity seems to be defined by a ter
This is the conclusion of a study of the diathesis in the Semitic languages which was initiated i... more This is the conclusion of a study of the diathesis in the Semitic languages which was initiated in 1981, when I started working on a thesis on the passive conjugations in modern Arabic dialects. In that work, The Finite Passive Voice in Modern Arabic Dialects (Göteborg 1983), which was basically a synchronic study, a detailed study of the diachronic aspects of this category was promised (p. 11). The present volume constitutes the fulfilment ofthat promise. Several persans besides the author have been involved in the production of this book. I first want to thank Professor Ebbe Egede Knudsen, University of Oslo, who kindly undertook to check the quotations from the Amarna letters and make the transliteration more up-to-date. I also want to thank Professor Tore J anson, Gothenburg U niversity, who read the two general introductions to the "passive" and "causative" respectively and affered valuable suggestions and improvements. My thanks are further extended to Daniel Ridings, Ferenc Tafferner and Kjell Andersson, all of the Classical Department in Gothenburg University, for their generosity in putting their computer skill at my disposal du ring many critical moments of the production. The staff of the Gothenburg University Library should also be included in my gratitude, having provided me with all the exotic titles that I needed during the work. I thank once more Jon van Leuven for making the English of the book more readable. Last but not least I thank Karin Hult, not only for her unlimited patience in typing out a preliminary version of the book, but also for her comments and advice both on the contents and the Iayout. Without her, this book would not have come into being. December 30, 1987 J.R. 1 Of the aneient Semitie languages the doeumentation of Aramaie is the one most diffieult to use. Most deseriptions tend to eonfuse different stages and dialeets. To this eomes that the deseriptions of the J ewish dialeets are mostly based on bad manuseripts from periods when the writers were no Ionger aware of the differenees e.g. between Palestinian and Babylonian dialeets. Some ofthese deficiencies arestill to a eertain extent found in Segert's reeent work on OAr/BAr/IAr. This explains why the Jewish Aramaie dialeets are not extensively referred to here. The Aramaie material is basieally drawn from OAr/IAr/BAr, Syriae and the doeumentation of the Neo-Aramaie languages. 2 This transliteration deviates on some points from the principles advocated by Richter (57 ff.). Thus, it is most doubtful whether 'alef without fwa should be seen as "Vokalanzeiger" in the consonantal text. It rather represents an etymological spelling. Even if it were a mater lectionis this function should be marked differently from its consonant value (op. cit., 29). From the point of view of pure transliteration which demands correspondence between two script systems only, there is no reason to have different markings of dagef (op. cit., 30-31). Swa is retrievable from the transliteration if it is not marked at all: it will then appear with all consonants followed by another consonant in the transliteration. As Richter points out, a transliteration system should be reversible (62). It may be added that it should also be as simple as possible.
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http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_947.ahtml
The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in co-operation between the Uppsala University, the Hebrew University in Jerusa-lem, Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. The questions put forward in the project were: How is hypotaxis marked in Semitic, other than by conjunctions? How does this affect the organization of texts? More specifically, what constitutes a circumstantial clause? To find an answer to these questions, all the major Semitic language families and some modern spoken Semitic dialects were surveyed within the project.
Thus, Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond examines how different kinds of clauses combine to a text in a number of Semitic languages (Ethio-Semitic not included). Specifically, many of its chapters examine how circumstantial clauses are coded in individual Semitic languages.
Contents of the volume:
Clause Combining in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö
Circumstantial Clause Linking in Egyptian Arabic Narration
Maria Persson
Non-main Clause Combining in Damascene Arabic:
A scale of markedness
Clause Combining in Written Arabic
Michal Marmorstein
The Domain of Verbal Circumstantial Clauses in Classical Arabic
Clause Combining in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson
The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew. A Clause Combining Approach
Clause Combining in Modern Spoken Aramaic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect
of Zakho
Clause Combining in Epigraphic South Arabian
Jan Retsö
The Problem of Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC) in Sabaean
Clause Combining in East Semitic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in Old Babylonian Akkadian
Index of terms
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418 pages. ISBN 978-3-447-10405-0.
http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_947.ahtml
The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in co-operation between the Uppsala University, the Hebrew University in Jerusa-lem, Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. The questions put forward in the project were: How is hypotaxis marked in Semitic, other than by conjunctions? How does this affect the organization of texts? More specifically, what constitutes a circumstantial clause? To find an answer to these questions, all the major Semitic language families and some modern spoken Semitic dialects were surveyed within the project.
Thus, Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond examines how different kinds of clauses combine to a text in a number of Semitic languages (Ethio-Semitic not included). Specifically, many of its chapters examine how circumstantial clauses are coded in individual Semitic languages.
Contents of the volume:
Clause Combining in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö
Circumstantial Clause Linking in Egyptian Arabic Narration
Maria Persson
Non-main Clause Combining in Damascene Arabic:
A scale of markedness
Clause Combining in Written Arabic
Michal Marmorstein
The Domain of Verbal Circumstantial Clauses in Classical Arabic
Clause Combining in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson
The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew. A Clause Combining Approach
Clause Combining in Modern Spoken Aramaic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect
of Zakho
Clause Combining in Epigraphic South Arabian
Jan Retsö
The Problem of Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC) in Sabaean
Clause Combining in East Semitic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in Old Babylonian Akkadian
Index of terms