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Israel Oriental Studies, Volume 19: Compilation and Creation in Adab and Luga: Studies in Memory of Naphtali Kinberg (1948-1997)
Contributor(s): Arazi, Albert (Editor), Sadan, Joseph (Editor), Wasserstein, David J. (Editor)
ISBN: 1575060450     ISBN-13: 9781575060453
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
OUR PRICE:   $74.20  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: June 1999
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient - General
LCCN: 72-955546
Series: Israel Oriental Studies
Physical Information: 504 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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Selected contents of this volume (1999), collected in memory of Naphtali Kinberg: Rachel Milstein, "The Evolution of a Visual Motif: The Temple and the Ka'ba"; Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, "A Certain Laugh: Serious Humor and Creativity in the Adab of Ibn al-Gawzi"; Aryeh Levin, "Sibawayhi's Attitude to the Language of the Quran"; Kees Versteegh, "Loanwords from Arabic and the Merger of d/d"; Toufic Fahd, "Adab: Poesie, Prose, Proverbes"; Richard C. Steiner, "Philology as the Handmaiden of Philosophy in R. Saadia Gaon's Interpretation of Genesis 1:1"; Dominique et Marie-Therese Urvoy, "Un aspect particulier de relation entre adab et falsafa"; Joseph Sadan, "Arabic Tom 'n Jerry Compositions: A Popular Composition on a War between Cats and Mice and a Maqama on Negotiations and Concluding Peace between a Cat and a Mouse"; Ulrich Marzolph, "Adab in Transition: Creative Compilation in Nineteenth-Century Print Tradition"; David Wasserstein, "A West-East Puzzle: On the History of the Proverb 'Speech in Silver, Silence in Golden."

Israel Oriental Studies has ceased publication with volume 20.