Leonid Kogan

This volume is the first of its kind to offer a detailed, monographic treatment of Semitic genealogical classification. The introduction describes the author's methodological framework and surveys the history of the subgrouping discussion in Semitic linguistics, and the first chapter provides a detailed description of the proto-Semitic basic vocabulary. Each of its seven main chapters deals with one of the key issues of the Semitic subgrouping debate: the East/West dichotomy, the Central Semitic hypothesis, the North West Semitic subgroup, the Canaanite affiliation of Ugaritic, the historical unity of Aramaic, and the diagnostic features of Ethiopian Semitic and of Modern South Arabian. The book aims at a balanced account of all evidence pertinent to the subgrouping discussion, but its main focus is on the diagnostic lexical features, heavily neglected in the majority of earlier studies dealing with this subject. The author tries to assess the subgrouping potential of the vocabulary using various methods of its diachronic stratification. The hundreds of etymological comparisons given throughout the book can be conveniently accessed through detailed lexical indices.

The Lexical Isoglosses

Genealogical Classification of Semitic

Vitaly Naumkin

The second volume of Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature comprises 30 newly published texts in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (island of Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen). The richly annotated texts are translated into English and Arabic; a Soqotri-English-Glossary completes the installment.

Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature

Lu Zhang

Joao Gomes

Equilibrium Cross-section of Returns

Dmitry Cherkashin

Maria Bulakh

Ekaterina Vizirova

The Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature is a unique source of grammatical, lexical and folkloristic data about the extremely archaic, yet heavily understudied, Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (island Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen).

Volume 1

This volume is the first of its kind to provide a detailed, comprehensive treatment of the genealogical subgrouping of Semitic. Starting with the traditional, morphologic approach and then shifting to the pertinent lexical evidence, it covers key topics in the Semitic subgrouping debate, including the East/West dichotomy, the Central Semitic hypothesis, the Canaanite affiliation of Ugaritic, and the linguistic specificity of Modern South Arabia.

Sergey Loesov

Serguei Tishchenko

Natalia Koslova

This is the third volume of Babel & Bibel, an annual of ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and Semitic studies. The principal goal of the annual is to reveal the inherent relationship between Assyriology, Semitics, and biblical studies--a relationship that our predecessors comprehended and fruitfully explored but that is often neglected today. The title Babel & Bibel is intended to point to the possibility of fruitful collaboration among the three disciplines, in an effort to explore the various civilizations of the ancient Near East. The tripartite division of Babel & Bibel corresponds to its three principal spheres of interest: ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and Semitic studies. Contributions are further subdivided into articles, short notes, and reviews.

Leonid Kogan

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