The IOS Annual Volume 25: "Memories Near and Far": (25 The IOS Annual)

Volume 25 of the Israel Oriental Studies Annual includes nine articles. The Ancient Near Eastern section consists of three articles. The first article is a study of the way that scholarly knowledge was memorized and internalized by the professional classes of First Millennium Mesopotamia (Gabbay). The second article discusses rhotacism in Luwian (Simon). The third article is an edition of an inscribed metal-bowl of King Iddin-Sin of Simurrum, followed by a commentary (Wasserman). The Semitic section includes six articles that touch upon languages attested, although not solely, in Africa. The issues discussed are shared etymologies between ancient Egyptian and Arabic (Borg and Sheyhatovitch), a new Digital Humanities project of Phoenician and Punic insciptions (Cerqueglini, Silber-Varod and Klein), the syntax of Hebrew spoken by the Algerian Jewish community of Wad-Souf (Gębski), the nomina agentis in Tigrinya (Gutgarts), the oral and written Beta Israel tradition (Rom-Shiloni).

Table of Contents:
Editorial Part1 The Ancient Near East 1 Embodied Knowledge: The Internalization of Knowledge in First Millennium Mesopotamia  Uri Gabbay 2 The Name on the Ortaköy Silver Signet Ring and Rhotacism in 2nd‑Millennium Luwian  Zsolt Simon 3 An Inscribed Metal Bowl of Iddin‑Sîn King of Simurrum  Nathan Wasserman Part2 Semitic Languages and Linguistics 4 Etymological Notes on Some Shared Cultic Terms in Ancient Egyptian and Arabic  Alexander Borg and Beata Sheyhatovitch 5 A Digital Database of Phoenician and Punic Epigraphy (DiDaP): Toward Sustainable, Open Access IT  Letizia Cerqueglini, Vered Silber-Varod, and Stav Klein 6 The Arabic Substrate in Israeli Hebrew as Spoken by the First Generation of Migrants from Wad‑Souf (Algeria)  Wiktor Gębski 7 Morphology and Semantics of Agent Nouns in Tigrinya  Yaroslav Gutgarts 8 ’Aśśərtu Qālāt: Oral and Written Beta Israel Traditions of the Decalogue  Dalit Rom-Shiloni 9 Amharic Names and Hebraized Names of Ethiopian Jews  Anbessa Teferra

About the Author :
Yoram Cohen, Ph.D (2003), Harvard University, is Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. He has published four monographs on Hittite society, scribal schools at Emar, wisdom literature, and omen literature, in addition to multiple studies on Bronze Age Syria. Amir Gilan, Ph.D. (2009), Leipzig University, is Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has written extensively on Hittite history, literature and religion, including Formen und Inhalte althethitischer historischer Literatur (Texte der Hethiter 29, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2015). Nathan Wasserman, Ph.D. (1993), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a professor of Assyriology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University. He specializes in Akkadian literature of the Old Babylonian period, with special interest in magic literature, hymns, and mythological texts. He has published six monographs treating various literary corpora and Old Babylonian history and grammar. Letizia Cerqueglini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Pisa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, is Lecturer of Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She has published monographs and articles on Semitic languages, cognition and culture, including Object-based Selection of Spatial Frames of Reference in aṣ-Ṣāniʕ Arabic (Pisa University Press, 2015). Beata Sheyhatovitch, Ph.D (2016), Tel Aviv University, is Lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. She has published a monograph on the distinctive terminology in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī and articles on the medieval Arabic linguistic tradition. Michal Marmorstein, Ph.D. (2014), The Hebrew University, is Senior Lecturer of Linguistics at the Hebrew University. She has written on Arabic and Hebrew in conversational and literary contexts, including the monograph Tense and Text: A Discourse-oriented study of the Tense System in Classical Arabic (2016)