Preface (vii)
Abbreviations (ix)
Introduction (1)
Part 1: Aramaic Studies (7)
What to do about citing ambiguity in a corpus-specific lexicon (Terry C. Falla) (9)
The Jewish Recension of a Syriac version of Aesop's Fables (Binyamin Y. Goldstein) (61)
Syriac manuscripts from Turfan: Public worship and private devotion (Erica C. D. Hunter) (77)
Greek imperatives and corresponding expressions in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (Tarsee Li) (97)
Reading the Bible with the Taḥtāyā ḏa-Ṯlāṯā (Jonathan Loopstra) (109)
A new Mandaic dictionary: Challenges, accomplishments, and prospects (Matthew Morgenstern) (139)
Qlido d-Leshono - Key of language: A comprehensive Syriac lexicon by Abbot Yuyakim of Tur Islo (Mor Polycarpus Augin Aydin) (173)
Psalm 2 in Syriac: Issues of text and language (Richard A. Taylor) (179)
Part 2: Hebrew Studies (199)
A few notes concerning the reading of TSYRWTY in the Great Isaiah Scroll (Isa 50:6b) (Cyrill von Buettner) (201)
Cognitive methodology in the study of an ancient language: Impediments and possibilities (Marilyn E. Burton) (213)
Towards a science of comparative Classical Hebrew lexicography (David J. A. Clines) (227)
On dating Biblical Hebrew texts: Sources of uncertainty/analytic options (A. Dean Forbes) (247)
A re-examination of grammatical categorization in Biblical Hebrew (Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé and Jacobus A. Naudé) (273)
Internationalisms in the Hebrew press 1860s-1910s as a means of language modernization (Sonya Yampolskaya) (309)
Part 3: Greek Studies (329)
Preventing drunkenness in the Christian gathering: Hints from the Graeco-Roman world and the New Testament (Valeriy Alikin) (331)
Basileia or Imperium? Rome and the rhetoric of resistance in the Revelation to John (Keith Dyer) (346)
The birth of European linguistic theory: The idea of language in the Sophists (Nikolay P. Grintser) (365)
Amazement, fear and being troubled in responses in Gospel miracle stories: Establishing the semantic contours of the terms and their interrelations (Jordash Kiffiak) (379)
The ass and the lyre: On a Greek proverb (Olga Levinskaja) (413)
Constituent order in and usages of εἰμί - participle combinations in the Synoptics and Acts (Stephen H. Levinsohn) (423)
Redundancy, discontinuity and delimitation in the epistle of James (Steven E. Runge) (443)
An examination of metarepresentation as an essntial feature of written and oral communication (Margaret Sim) (455)
Prayer and the papyri at Oxyrhynchus (Michael P. Theophilos) (471)
The lexicographic editor and the problem of consistency (Anne Thompson) (481)