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STUDIES IN ANCIENT ORIENTAL CIVILIZATION ? No. 60

THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

SERIES EDITORS

LESLIE SCHRAMER

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THOMAS G. URBAN

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Gene B. Gragg. October 1997. Photo by Jason Smith

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STUDIES IN SEMITIC AND AFROASIATIC

LINGUISTICS PRESENTED TO

GENE B. GRAGG

Edited by

CYNTHIA L. MILLER

THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

S T U D I E S I N A N C I E N T O R I E N T A L C I V I L I Z A T I O N ? No. 6 0

CHICAGO ? ILLINOIS

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2007929536

ISBN: 978-1-885923-41-7

1-885923-41-4

ISSN: 0081-7554

?2007 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.

Published 2007. Printed in the United States of America.

The Oriental Institute, Chicago

Series Editors Acknowledgments

The assistance of Katherine Strange Burke, Lindsay DeCarlo, and Katie

L. Johnson is acknowledged in the production of this volume. Thanks

are also due to Scott Branting, Director of the Center for Ancient Middle

Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL) at the Oriental Institute, for his assistance with the maps.

The image on the cover comprises the beginning of ¡°A Magic Prayer of Henoch¡± in Ge?ez

(folio 88 verso of University of Chicago Ms. 251, a Gospel of John with Magic Prayers, which is a codex forming part

of the Goodspeed New Testament Manuscript Collection; courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center,

University of Chicago Library). The text was first published by Gene B. Gragg in 1975.

Printed by Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, Michigan

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for

Information Services ¡ª Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Figures ............................................................................................................................................................

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List of Maps ...............................................................................................................................................................

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List of Tables .............................................................................................................................................................

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Foreword. Gil J. Stein ...............................................................................................................................................

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Preface. Cynthia L. Miller .........................................................................................................................................

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The Research of Gene B. Gragg. Cynthia L. Miller .................................................................................................

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Bibliography of the Publications and Communications of Gene B. Gragg. Charles E. Jones ..................................

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Gene B. Gragg as a Teacher. Robert D. Hoberman .................................................................................................

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Dissertation Committee Service. Gene B. Gragg .....................................................................................................

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1. The Afrasian Lexicon Reconsidered. M. Lionel Bender ....................................................................................

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2. PQD Revisited. Stuart Creason ..........................................................................................................................

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3. ¡®May the Gods Preserve You!¡¯: The Variability of Injunctive *la in Epigraphic South Arabian and Its

Relation to Jussive Forms within South Semitic. Joseph L. Daniels II ..............................................................

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4. Littera ex occidente: Toward a Functional History of Writing. Peter T. Daniels ..............................................

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5. The Story of Mem u Zine in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Bohtan. Samuel Ethan Fox ......................................

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6. Prenasalization in Aramaic. W. Randall Garr ....................................................................................................

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7. A New Masoretic ¡°Spell Checker,¡± or, a Practical Method for Checking the Accentual Structure

and Integrity of Tiberian-Pointed Biblical Texts. Richard L. Goerwitz III ........................................................

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8. External Plural Markers in Semitic: A New Assessment. Rebecca Hasselbach ................................................

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9. Semitic Triradicality or Prosodic Minimality? Evidence from Sound Change. Robert D. Hoberman ..............

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10. Akkadian-Egyptian Lexical Matches. Alexander Militarev ...............................................................................

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11. Constraints on Ellipsis in Biblical Hebrew. Cynthia L. Miller ...........................................................................

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12. The Ugaritic Alphabetic Cuneiform Writing System in the Context of Other Alphabetic Systems.

Dennis Pardee ....................................................................................................................................................

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13. West Semitic Perspectives on the Akkadian Vetitive. David Testen .................................................................

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Contributors ..............................................................................................................................................................

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Index

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