The IOS Annual Volume 23: “Drought Will Drive You Even Toward Your Foe”

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 Urukagina’s Rise to Power

 Piotr Steinkeller



2 Samsuiluna and the Reconquest of Nippur

 Nathan Steinmeyer



3 The Statue of Idrimi and the Term mānaḫtu/mānaḫātu

 Yoram Cohen



4 On Aramaic Loanwords in Neo- and Late-Babylonian Texts: Morphophonological Classification, Documentary Distribution, General Evaluation, and Conclusions (Part Two)

 Ran Zadok



Part 2 Semitic Languages and Linguistics



5 The Way to the Rainy Mountains: Semantic Networks of Natural Metaphors in Najdi Poetry

 Letizia Cerqueglini



6 The Vocalization of Guttural Consonants in the Secunda and Other Hebrew Traditions

 Isabella Maurizio