JOURNAL OF Semitic JOURNAL Of Stucfies Semitic Stucfies VOLUME LVIII. NO. 2 AUTUMN 2013

Editorial Committee P.S. Alexander Contents G.. Brooke D.C. Eades ARTICLES R. Buckley PETER BEKINS, 'Non-Prototypical Uses of the Defínite Article in Biblical J.F. Healey Hebrew' 225 P. C. Sadgrove ORTAL-PAZ SAAR, 'An lncantation Bowl for Sowing Discord' 241 R. Smithuis YIFAT MONNICKENDAM, 'Articulating Marriage: Ephrem's Legal Editorial Advisors Terminology and its Origins' 257 ADAM MCCOLLUM, 'Prolegomena to a New Edition of Eliya of Nisibis's C.E. Bosworth Kitiib al-turjumiin fi ta'lfm lugat al-suryiin' 297 S.P. Brock GEULA ELIMELEKH, 'Kafkaesque Metamorphosis as Reflected in the Works K.J. Cathcan of Samlr N aqqash' 323 A. Christmann DOMENYK EADES and MARIA PERSSON, 'Aktionsart, Word Form and R. Gleave Context: On rhe Use of the Active Participle in Gulf Dialect' 343 G. Khan SALMAN ILAIYAN and KHALID SINDAWE, 'Verb Derivations from the M. Kropp Names of Countries and Peoples in the Middle East and Around the World' 369 Y. Marras A.R. Millard REVIEWS

M. Morgenstern Stefan WENINGERin collaboration with Geoffrey KHAN, Michael P. STRECK M.E.J. Richardson and Janet C.E. WATSON(eds), The : An International Hand- P. Schafer book (Ahmad AL-JALLAD) 395 A. Shivtiel Hans Ulrich STEYMANS(ed.), Gilgamesch: Ikonographie eines He/den 1 Gilgamesh. G. Rex Smith Epic and Jconography (Stephanie DALLEY) 398 A.D. Rubin Helmut FREYDANKand Barbara FELLER,Mittelassyrische Rechtsurkunden und Y. Suleiman Verwaltungstexte, IX (Salvarore GASPA) 401 J.C.E. Watson Christopher A. ROLLSTON,Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel: Assistant Editor Epigraphic Evidence from the ]ron Age (K. Martin HE! DE) 403 Raymond WESTBROOKand Bruce WELLS, Everyday Law in Biblicallsrael. An Bronwen Carnpbell lntroduction. (Bernard S. JACKSON) 406 The }ournal of Semitic Studies publishes a book supplement series. For more informacion see www.jss.oxfordjournals.org. The editors welcome proposals for further titles in the series. For more details please write to the editors, Journal of Semitic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, Manchester Ml3 9PL, UK Jan DIETRICH, Kollektive Schuld und Haftung: Religions- und rechtsgeschichtliche Diana LIPTON (ed.), Universalism and Particularism at Sodom and Gomorrah: Studien zum Sühnekuhritus im Deuteronomium und zu verwandten Texten Essays in Memory of Ron Pirson (Walter J. HOUSTON) 437 (Thomas ROMER) 410 Eileen M. ScHULLER and Caro! A. NEWSOM, The Hodayot (Thanksgiving A. Joseph EVERSONand Hyun Chul PAUL KIM (eds), The Desert Will Bloom: Psalms}: A Study Edition of JQH' (Pieter B. HARTOG) 438 Poetic Visions in Isaiah (Thomas L. LECLERC) 411 John T. FITZGERALD, Fika J. VAN RENSBURGand Herri F. VAN ROOY (eds), Roben ].V. HIEBERT (ed.), 'Translation is Required': The Septuagint in Retrospect Animosity, the Bible and Us: Sorne European, North American, and South African and Prospect Gennifer DINES) 414 Perspectives (Alex P. JASSEN) 439 DaphnaARBEL, J.R.C. COUSLANDand Dietmar NEUFELD, .. . And So They Went BOOKS RECEIVED 441 Out: The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story (Brian MURDOCH) 416 INDEX 443 F. BRIQUEL CHATONNET, Alain DESREUMAUXand Jacob THEKEPARAMPIL. Receuil des imcriptiom syriaques (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lemes}. Tome l. Kérala, Amir HARRAK. Receuil des imcriptiom syriaques (Académie des Inscrip­ tions et Belles-Lemes}. Tome 2. : Syriac and Inscriptions (1. Text; 2. Plates}. Gohn F. HEALEY) 418 David H. PRICE, ]ohannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy ]ewish Books (Gareth LLOYD JONES) 421 Andreas WETTER, Das Argobba: Eine deskriptive Grammatik der Varietiit von Shonke und T'ollaha (Aaron D. RUBIN) 423 ].C. REEVES, Prolegomena toa History of Islamicate Manichaeism, Comparative Islamic Studies (Samuel LIEU) 425 Anna CONTADINI, A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitñb Na't a/-lfayawán) in the Ibn Bakhtishü' Tradition (Oliver KAHL) 426 Musa SHAWARBAH,A Grammar ofNegev Arabic: Comparative Studies, Texts and Glossary in the Bedouin dialect of the 'Aziizmih Tribe (Alexander MAGIDOW) 429 Yasir SULEIMAN,Arabic, Self and Identity: A Study in Conjlict and Displacement (Eirlys E. DAVIES) 431

SHORTNOTES ltamar S!NGER, The Ca/m before the storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the end of the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant (Lindy CREWE) 435 Sergio PERNIGOTTI, L'Egitto di Ramesse JI tra Guerra e pace (K.A. KITCHEN) 436 Giovanni GARBINI, Dio del/a terra, Dio del cielo: Dalle religioni semitiche al giudaismo e al cristianesimo (Wilfred G .E. WATSO N) 436 Jan DIETRICH, Kollektive Schuld und Haftung: Religions- und rechtsgeschichtliche Diana LIPTON {ed.), Universalism and Partícularism at Sodom and Gomorrah: Studien zum Sühnekuhrítus im Deuteronomíum und zu verwandten Texten Essays in Memory of Ron Pirson (Walter J. HOUSTON) 437 (Thomas RÚMER) 410 Eileen M. ScHULLER and Caro! A. NEWSOM, The Hodayot (Thanksgiving A. Joseph EVERSONand Hyun Chul PAUL KIM (eds), The Desert Will Bloom: Psalms): A Study Edition of IQH' (Pieter B. HARTOG) 438 Poetic Visions in Isaiah (Thomas L. LECLERC) 411 John T. FITZGERALD, Fika J. VAN RENSBURGand Herri F. VAN ROOY (eds), Robert J .V. HIEBERT (ed.), 'Translation is Required': The Septuagint in Retrospect Animosity, the Bibk and Us: Some European, North American, and South African and Prospect (Jennifer DINES) 414 Perspectives (Alex P. JASSEN) 439 Daphna ARBEL,J.R.C. COUSLANDand Dietmar NEUFELD, .. . And So They Went BOOKS RECEIVED 441 Out: The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story (Brian MURDOCH) 416 INDEX 443 F. BRIQUEL CHATONNET, Alain DESREUMAUXand Jacob THEKEPARAMPIL. Receuil des inscriptions syriaques (Académie des Inscriptions et Belks-Lettres). Tome l. Kérala, Amir HABRAK. Receuil des inscriptions syriaques (Académie des Inscrip­ tions et Belks-Lettres}. Tome 2. Iraq: Syriac and Garshuni Inscriptions {1. Text; 2. Plates}. (John F. HEALEY) 418 David H. PRICE, ]ohannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy fewish Books (Gareth LLOYD JONES) 421 Andreas WETTER, Das Argobba: Eine deskriptive Grammatik der Varietiit von Shonke und T'ollaha (Aaron D. RUBIN) 423 J.C. REEVES, Prokgomena toa History of Jslamicate Manichaeism, Comparative Islamic Studies (Samuel LIEU) 425 Anna CONTADINI, A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitiib Na't al-lfayawiin) in the Ibn Bakhtishü' Tradition (Oliver KAHL) 426 Musa SHAWARBAH,A Grammar ofNegev Arabic: Comparative Studies, Texts and Glossary in the Bedouin diakct of the 'Aziizmih Tribe (Alexander MAGIDOW) 429 Yasir SULEIMAN,Arabic, Se/f and Identity: A Study in Conjlict and Displacement (Eirlys E. DAVIES) 431

SHORTNOTES ltamar SINGER, The Ca/m before the storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the end of the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant (Lindy CREWE) 435 Sergio PERNIGOTTI, L'Egitto di Ramesse JI tra Guerra e pace (K.A. KITCHEN) 436 Giovanni GARBINI, Dio del/a terra, Dio del cielo: Dalle relígioni semitiche al giudoismo e al cristianesimo (Wilfred G.E. WATSON) 436