Arabic & Semitic Languages

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic was the language spoken and written by Jews in parts of what are now Iraq and Iran from the third to the tenth centuries C.E., corresponding to the Talmudic and Geonic Periods.

Contains the Aramaic vocabulary of the Jewish literary and epigraphic sources of Eretz Israel from the third century C.E. until the Arab Conquest, including Palestinian Talmud, Midrashim, Targumim and synagogue inscriptions.

The book presents a critical annotated edition of Yefet's central work on biblical prophecy, containing an extensive Introduction, the Judaeo-Arabic source text of Yefet's translation and commentary on Hosea.

A collection of interdisciplinary studies on the Jews of Tunisia. The 22 articles by foremost scholars from Israel and from abroad encompass a wide variety of fields such as: rabbinic literature, history of Tunisian Jewry throughout the ages, community li

The educated Jew in the Middle Ages became familiar with classical literature through its Arabic translations. Hundreds of motifs were borrowed from these sources and implanted in Hebrew literature, especially in Spanish poetry. The author has collected t

The present volume deals mainly with the connections between Islam and Judaism in the spheres of philosophy and mysticism. It includes also articles on various subjects: ablution in Islamic Law, the appearance of Muhammad in Rasail Ikhwan al-Safa, a comme

Judean Aramaic is the Aramaic dialect of the documents that were composed in Judea between c. 150 B.C.E.- 200 C.E. The texts in this dialect come from various sites in the Dead Sea region, the vicinity of Jerusalem, and from Tannaitic sources (Mishna, Tos

Collection of articles by renowned scholars in Israel and abroad, dealing with social, economic and intellectual history, Bible exegesis and translation, philosophy and polemics, literature and linguistics. Based on lectures delivered at the Sixth Interna

This is the second volume of the author's iconotextual trilogy. Co-published with Harrassowitz Verlag.

Co-published with Harrassowitz Verlag.

This collection of studies consists of two parts: 1. Papers on Sumerian literature and religion that contain, inter alia, an edition of the "Marriage of Martu" myth by the noted Sumerologist, S.N. Kramer. 2. Studies in the El-Amarna archive, Neo-Assyri

In compiling this unique dictionary, Prof. Ratzaby has methodically and minutely examined the Arabic language used by R. Sa'adya Gaon in his translation of the Bible and in his commentaries. Words of exceptional form or meaning, not included in the cl

The present collection of articles covers a wide range of topics including Aramean history, Aramaic language, literature and paleography. New texts in Egyptian Aramaic, Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, and the modern Aramaic dialect of the Kurdish Jews are pub

Originally published 25 years ago in the periodical Tarbiz, the late Prof. E. Y. Kutscher's article has been inaccessible to the wider audience of Aramaic scholars who do not read Modern Hebrew. Based on manuscript evidence, Kutscher's study was the most

Two volumes containing a collection of Hebrew and English articles dealing with various aspects of Islamic and Arabic arts, history, religion, philosophy, literature and linguistics. Many illustrations, maps and plans.