The IOS Annual Volume 22: “Telling of Olden Kings”

Yoram Cohen, Ph.D. (2003), Harvard University, is Professor of Assyriology and the Ancient Near East at Tel Aviv University. He has published four monographs on Hittite society, scribal schools at Emar, wisdom, 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 (2015). Nathan Wasserman, Ph.D. (1993), The Hebrew University, is Professor of Assyriology at the Hebrew University. He specializes in Akkadian literature of the Old Babylonian period. He has published six monographs on the literature, history, and grammar of the Old Babylonian period. Letizia Cerqueglini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Pisa/Ben-Gurion University, is Senior Lecturer of Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She has published monographs and articles on Semitic languages, cognition, and culture, including Space and Time in aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic. A Cross-Generational Study (2022). Beata Sheyhatovitch, Ph.D. (2016), Tel Aviv University, is Senior Lecturer 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.

Editorial

Part 1 The Ancient Near East



1 A Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II from Uruk in the Collection of David and Cindy Sofer, London, Displayed in the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

 Rocío Da Riva and Jamie Novotny



2 On the Use of Personal Names in Neo-Babylonian Epistolography

 Yuval Levavi



3 Scribal Confusion in Aramaic Renderings of Iranian Anthroponyms: A Preliminary Study

 Jan Tavernier and Annalisa Azzoni



4 The Scribes of Borsippa in the First Millennium BC: A Preliminary Survey

 Ran Zadok



Part 2 Semitic Languages and Linguistics



5 Etymological Investigations on Jibbali/Śḥerέt Anthroponyms

 Giuliano Castagna



6 Early Sabaic/ Gǝʿǝz Shared Lexical Stock: Retentions, Innovations and Loanwords

 Letizia Cerqueglini



7 The Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary Remarks

 Maciej Klimiuk and Maria Lipnicka



Part 3 Arabic Language and Literature



8 Elements of Folktales in Modern Arabic Poetry—The First Half of the 20th Century

 Jeries Khoury



9 From a Canaanite Prostitute to an Israelite Wo/Man: On the Incarnations of Rahab in Early Muslim Tradition

 Yolanda Yavor