From Ancient Manuscripts to Modern Dictionaries: Select Studies in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek

Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: Aramaic Studies
What to Do About Citing Ambiguity in a Corpus-Specific Lexicon
The Jewish Recension of a Syriac Version of Aesop’s Fables
Syriac Manuscripts from Turfan: Public Worship and Private Devotion
Greek Imperatives and Corresponding Expressions in Christian Palestinian Aramaic
Reading the Bible with the Taḥtāyā ḏa-Ṯlāṯā
A New Mandaic Dictionary: Challenges, Accomplishments, and Prospects
Qlido d-Leshono—Key of Language: A Comprehensive Syriac Lexicon by Abbot Yuyakim of Tur Islo
Psalm 2 in Syriac: Issues of Text and Language
Part 2: Hebrew Studies
A Few Notes concerning the Reading of הסירותי in the Great Isaiah Scroll (Isa 50:6b)
Cognitive Methodology in the Study of an Ancient Language: Impediments and Possibilities
Towards a Science of Comparative Classical Hebrew Lexicography
On Dating Biblical Hebrew Texts: Sources of Uncertainty / Analytic Options
A Re-Examination of Grammatical Categorization in Biblical Hebrew
Internationalisms in the Hebrew Press 1860s-1910s as a Means of Language Modernization
Part 3: Greek Studies
Preventing Drunkenness in the Christian Gathering: Hints from the Graeco- Roman World and the New Testament
Basileia or Imperium? Rome and the Rhetoric of Resistance in the Revelation to John
The Birth of European Linguistic Theory: The Idea of Language in the Sophists
Amazement, Fear and Being Troubled in Responses in Gospel Miracle Stories: Establishing the Semantic Contours of the Terms and their Interrelations
The Ass and the Lyre: On a Greek Proverb
Constituent Order in and Usages of εἰμί – Participle Combinations in the Synoptics and Acts
Redundancy, Discontinuity and Delimitation in the Epistle of James
An Examination of Metarepresentation as an Essential Feature of Written and Oral Communication
Prayer and the Papyri at Oxyrhynchus
The Lexicographic Editor and the Problem of Consistency