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The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities at Friedrich-Schiller-Universit... more The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena houses one of the major European collections of incantation bowls. Forty bowls bear texts written in the Jewish, Manichaean Syriac or Mandaic scripts, and most of the rest (some twenty-five objects) in the Pahlavi script or in various pseudoscripts. The present volume comprises new editions of the Aramaic (and Hebrew) bowl texts based on high-resolution photographs taken by the authors, together with brief descriptions and photographs of the remaining material. New readings are often supported with close-up photographs. The volume is intended to serve as a basis for further study of magic in late Antiquity and of the Late Eastern Aramaic dialects in which the texts were composed.
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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and Mandaic
P. Machinist et. al. (eds), Ve-‘Ed Ya’aleh (Gen 2:6): Essays in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Edward L. Greenstein (Atlanta: SBL Press), 2021
The influential and sometimes controversial Mandaean religious leader, Yahia Bihram, was one of t... more The influential and sometimes controversial Mandaean religious leader, Yahia Bihram, was one of the prominent figures in the Mandaean community in the 19th century. This article discusses his relationships with and attitudes towards European power and influences, and presents previously unknown evidence from his narrative colophons of his tremendous interest in technological developments. The narratives are composed in the characteristic idiom of 19th century priestly texts, which combines elements of the classical language with strong influence of the vernacular.
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Studies in Syriac Magic Traditions, 2021
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Aula Orientalis, 2020
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Yahia Bihram, a pivotal figure in the Mandaean community of the 19 th century, composed several a... more Yahia Bihram, a pivotal figure in the Mandaean community of the 19 th century, composed several autobiographical texts. This article presents a new edition of one of his lengthiest works, incorporating numerous corrected readings based upon close examination of the original manuscript. With the aid of recent linguistic research into Neo-Mandaic and contemporary documents, the article proposes many new interpretations and the correct identifications of historical names and places.
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The first part of this article examined the features that distinguish the language of the earlies... more The first part of this article examined the features that distinguish the language of the earliest Mandaean colophons from Classical Mandaic and demonstrated that many of these features are shared with the contemporary Neo-Mandaic dialects recorded in the research literature since the 20th century. Part 2 presents editions and translations of the source texts with some brief philological notes and seeks to identify the origins of the linguistic innovations.
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Aramaic Studies 16 (2018), pp. 182–205.
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Le Museon 131 (2018), pp 1–19.
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This is the final version of an article submitted to ARAM periodical for publication. The version... more This is the final version of an article submitted to ARAM periodical for publication. The version that was eventually published was a previous draft for which the authors were never shown proofs. The published version contained the abstract for a different article by Mutazfi, and did not incorporate all of our corrections. At the protest of many of the contributors, the volume was withdrawn from publication, and it is thankfully no longer available. We are making our final corrected version available to interested scholars.
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Journal of the American Oriental Society 137 (2017), 737-765
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Orientalia 86 (2017), pp. 253-273.
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Preprint from V. Golinets et. al (eds.), Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Sechstes Treffen der Arbei... more Preprint from V. Golinets et. al (eds.), Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Sechstes Treffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 09.–11. Februar 2013 in Heidelberg
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 80(2), (2017), pp. 191-231.
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Published in: Eretz Israel 32 (2016), Joseph Naveh Memorial Volume, pp. 115-127.
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Neo-Aramaic and its Linguistic Context Edited by Geoffrey Khan & Lidia Napiorkowska (Gorgias Neo-Aramaic Studies 14) ., Feb 2015
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Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 110, Mar 2015
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Aula Orientalis 33/2 (2015) 271-286. Final Proof.
This article presents the editio princeps of a... more Aula Orientalis 33/2 (2015) 271-286. Final Proof.
This article presents the editio princeps of a Mandaic lamella from the Martin Schøyen collection. In the accompanying commentary, several Mandaic lexemes are discussed: abulia ‘fissures’, audana ‘desolated place’ and ʿbdunia ‘Abaddons’, gusparta ‘rooster’s comb’, d-p-n ‘to strike’, huṣa ‘palm frond’ (for later Manaic hukṣa), ṭasa ‘lamella, metal strip’, y-ṭ-b ‘burnish’, mitnia ‘loins’, m-r-s ‘to crush’, n-p-a ‘to shatter’ (< Aramaic n-p-ʕ), ʿumta ‘oath’, qmaha ‘amulet’, ragama ‘smiting’, šdqa ‘paralysis’, šuliata (pl. form) ‘afterbirths’ and šlutina ‘bat’. It also discusses the shift of *ʿu > i before a and orthographic interchanges of z and d.
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This article presents the editio princeps of a Mandaic lamella from the Martin Schøyen collection. In the accompanying commentary, several Mandaic lexemes are discussed: abulia ‘fissures’, audana ‘desolated place’ and ʿbdunia ‘Abaddons’, gusparta ‘rooster’s comb’, d-p-n ‘to strike’, huṣa ‘palm frond’ (for later Manaic hukṣa), ṭasa ‘lamella, metal strip’, y-ṭ-b ‘burnish’, mitnia ‘loins’, m-r-s ‘to crush’, n-p-a ‘to shatter’ (< Aramaic n-p-ʕ), ʿumta ‘oath’, qmaha ‘amulet’, ragama ‘smiting’, šdqa ‘paralysis’, šuliata (pl. form) ‘afterbirths’ and šlutina ‘bat’. It also discusses the shift of *ʿu > i before a and orthographic interchanges of z and d.
This article presents the editio princeps of a Mandaic lamella from the Martin Schøyen collection. In the accompanying commentary, several Mandaic lexemes are discussed: abulia ‘fissures’, audana ‘desolated place’ and ʿbdunia ‘Abaddons’, gusparta ‘rooster’s comb’, d-p-n ‘to strike’, huṣa ‘palm frond’ (for later Manaic hukṣa), ṭasa ‘lamella, metal strip’, y-ṭ-b ‘burnish’, mitnia ‘loins’, m-r-s ‘to crush’, n-p-a ‘to shatter’ (< Aramaic n-p-ʕ), ʿumta ‘oath’, qmaha ‘amulet’, ragama ‘smiting’, šdqa ‘paralysis’, šuliata (pl. form) ‘afterbirths’ and šlutina ‘bat’. It also discusses the shift of *ʿu > i before a and orthographic interchanges of z and d.
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