To the Madbar and Back Again

✍ Scribed by Nehmé Laïla

• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 758
• Series: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 92
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Michael C.A. Macdonald is one of the great names of Arabian Studies. He pioneered the field of Ancient North Arabian and made invaluable contributions to the history of Arabia and the nomads of the Near East, their languages, and their scripts. This volume gathers thirty-two innovative contributions from leading scholars in the field to honor the career of Michael C.A. Macdonald, covering the languages and scripts of ancient Arabia, their history and archaeology, the Hellenistic Near East, and the modern dialects and languages of Arabia. The book is an essential part of the library of any who study the Near East, its languages and its cultures.

✦ Table of Contents

‎Contents
‎Michael Macdonald
‎Publications by M.C.A. Macdonald
‎Tabula Gratulatoria
‎Tables and Figures
‎Contributors
‎Part 1. Epigraphy and Philology
‎Chapter 1. Les artisans et professions «libérales» dans le domaine nabatéen (Nehmé)
‎Chapter 2. Anmerkungen zum safaitischen und althebräischen Onomastikon (Müller)
‎Chapter 3. Safaitic Prayers, Curses, Grief and More from Wadi Salhub—North-Eastern Jordan (Hayajneh)
‎Chapter 4. Notes on ḥwb in Safaitic (Della Puppa)
‎Chapter 5. Traditional Music or Religious Ritual? Ancient Rock Art Illumined by Bedouin Custom (al-Manaser)
‎Chapter 6. The Formularies and Their Historical Implications: Two Examples from Ancient South Arabian Epigraphic Documentation (Avanzini)
‎Chapter 7. Ancient South Arabian Graffiti from Shabathān (Governorate of al-Bayḍāʾ, Yemen) (Prioletta)
‎Chapter 8. Schreiben, meißeln, Fehler machen. Zur Funktion von Schrift im öffentlichen Raum im antiken Südarabien (Stein)
‎Chapter 9. The Phonemes ẓ and ṭ in the Dadanitic Inscriptions (Kootstra)
‎Chapter 10. Dadanitic Inscriptions from Jabal al-Khraymāt (Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ) (Hidalgo-Chacón Díez)
‎Chapter 11. Un sanctuaire de montagne: Mushannaf (Sartre)
‎Chapter 12. Un pasteur et un soldat? Deux inscriptions grecques d’époque romaine à l’est du Jabal Ḥawrān (Villeneuve)
‎Chapter 13. Méharistes et cavaliers romains dans le désert jordanien (Gatier)
‎Chapter 14. Goras, sanglier ou jeune lion (ou onagre)? (Yon)
‎Chapter 15. A Lead Syriac Protective Talisman (Brock)
‎Chapter 16. Two New Arabic Inscriptions: Arabian Castles and Christianity in the Umayyad Period (Hoyland)
‎Chapter 17. The Etymology of Ḥattā (Al-Jallad)
‎Chapter 18. Are Libyco-Berber Horizontal ṯ and Vertical h the Same Sign? (van Putten)
‎Part 2. Archaeology, History and Religion
‎Chapter 19. The Outer Wall of Taymāʾ and Its Dating to the Bronze Age (Hausleiter)
‎Chapter 20. Pottery from the “Midianite Heartland”? On Tell Kheleifeh and Qurayyah Painted Ware. New Evidence from the Harvard Semitic Museum (Luciani)
‎Chapter 21. A Caravan Merchant Family of ‘Antioch on the Chrysorhoas’. A Glimpse of Hellenistic Gerasa as a Caravanserai (Kehrberg(-Ostrasz))
‎Chapter 22. The Visit of Mālik bin Muʿāwiyah, King of Kindah and Maḏḥiǧ to the Himyarite King Šammar Yuharʿiš in Maʾrib (Maraqten)
‎Chapter 23. Der rituelle Umzug des Yadaʿʾil Ḏarīḥ nach Ṣirwāḥ (Nebes)
‎Chapter 24. Sedentism of Arabs in the 8th–4th Centuries BC (Ephʿal)
‎Chapter 25. Reflections on Arab Leadership in Late Antiquity (Fisher)
‎Chapter 26. A Paradise in the Desert: Iram at the Intersection of One Thousand and One Nights, Quranic Exegesis, and Arabian History (Elmaz)
‎Chapter 27. Mourning for the Dead and the Beginning of Idolatry in the Kitāb al-Aṣnām and the Spelunca Thesaurorum—an Unknown Parallel to Sūrat at-Takāṯur (Q102)? (Klein)
‎Chapter 28. Temple Inscriptions and “the Death of the God(s)” (Healey)
‎Chapter 29. ‘The Conception of Jesus’ (Cotton Paltiel)
‎Part 3. Modern Dialects and Tribes
‎Chapter 30. Drink Long and Drink in Peace: Singing to Livestock at Water in Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman (Morris and al-Shaḥri)
‎Chapter 31. South Arabian Sibilants and the Śḥerɛ̄t s̃ ~ š Contrast (Bellem and Watson)
‎Chapter 32. Was There a “Bedouinisation” of Arabia? Probably Not, at Least in the Way It Has So Far Been Portrayed (Lancaster and Lancaster)
‎Index