Table of Contents

John as a Teacher and Mentor. Rebecca Hasselbach and Na'ama Pat-El|The Research of John Huehnergard. Rebecca Hasselbach and Na'ama Pat-El|A Brief Note on the Festschrift Illustrations. X Bonnie Woods|Contributions|1. Functional Values of iprus Forms in Old Babylonian summa|Protases. Eran Cohen|2. The Hypotaxis-Parataxis Dichotomy and Elliptic Conditional|Clauses in Semitic. Lutz Edzard|3. t-Stem Verbs without Metathesis in Aramaic and Hebrew|Documents from the Judean Desert. Steven E. Fassberg|4. People without Town: The ?apiru in the Amarna Evidence. Daniel|E. Fleming|5. Denominal, Lexicalized hiphil Verbs. W. Randall Garr|6. The Treatment of Vowel Length in Arabic Grammar and Its|7. Wisdom in Ugaritic. Edward L. Greenstein|8. Predicate Nominals and Related Constructions in Neo-Mandaic.|Charles G. Haberl|9. Yaqtul and a Ugaritic Incantation Text. Jo Ann Hackett|10. The Verbal Endings -u and -a: A Note on Their Functional|Derivation. Rebecca Hasselbach|11. Ibn Khaldun as a Historical Linguist with an Excursus on the|Question of Ancient Gaf. Wolfhart Heinrichs|12. A Morphosyntactic Explanation of teposotikem (Jer 25:34).|Jeremy M. Hutton|13. Canaano-Akkadian: Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. Shlomo|Izre'el|14. The Evidential Function of the Perfect in North-Eastern|Neo-Aramaic Dialects. Geoffrey Khan|15. Les noms de plantes akkadiens dans leur contexte semitique.|Leonid Kogan|16. Grammaticalization and the Biblical Hebrew|17. The Biblical Hebrew Verbal System in a Nutshell. Dennis|Pardee|18. The Syntax of 'aser and seC - Yet Again. Na'ama Pat-El|19. Late Biblical Hebrew in the Book of Haggai. Gary A.|Rendsburg|20. Two Modern South Arabian Etymologies. Aaron D. Rubin|21. "If Water Had Not Been Made to Dry Up, This Earth Would Have|Been Drowned": Pahlavi *awas- "to dry." P. Oktor Skjaervo|22. Vowel Syncope and Syllable Repair Processes in Proto-Semitic|Construct Forms: A New Reconstruction Based on the Law of|Diminishing Conditioning. Richard C. Steiner|23. Reconciling Some Morphological Eccentricities of the Semitic|Genitive Case Marker. David Testen|24. Mixed Linguistic Features in a Judeo-Arabic Text from|Algeria: The Sarh to the Haftarot from Constantine. Ofra|Tirosh-Becker|25. Alternierende Metrik in der akkadischen Poesie. Josef|26. On Personal Names Ending in -ayu in the Amarna Letters and in|Texts from Canaan. Wilfred van Soldt|27. Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Concord Area,|Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Richard K. Walton ~|28. Verbal Endings in the Afroasiatic Prefix Conjugations.|Andrzej Zaborski|29. Prepositional Phrases as Subjects in Several Semitic|Languages. Tamar Zewi