Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / GEOFFREY KHAN -- INTRODUCTION / GEOFFREY KHAN -- UPDATE TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF EDWARD ULLENDORFF / GEOFFREY KHAN -- SEMITIC TRIRADICALISM AND THE BIRADICAL QUESTION / Gideon Goldenberg -- REFLEXES OF QATL FORMS IN GƎ‘ƎZ / John Huehnergard -- THE DECAY OF QATTALA/QĀTALA IN GƎ‘ƎZ / Andrzej Zaborski -- DEFINITE MARKERS IN MODERN ETHIOPIAN SEMITIC LANGUAGES / David L. Appleyard -- IS NEO-ARAMAIC A SEMITIC LANGUAGE? / Simon Hopkins -- SOME PARALLELS IN LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN BIBLICAL HEBREW AND NEO-ARAMAIC / Geoffrey Khan -- THE DATIVUS ETHICUS IN MEDIEVAL JUDAEO-ARABIC / Joshua Blau -- FORM X OF THE VERB IN THE ARABIC DIALECTS OF EASTERN ARABIA / Clive Holes -- A CHRISTIAN TRADITION OF HEBREW VOCALISATION IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- THE SCRIPT OF TAIMAN / Giovanni Garbini -- VENEZIA E LIVORNO NELLA TOPONOMASTICA ARABA / Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti -- THE ETYMOLOGY OF 'ΆNΘPΩΠOΣ A SUGGESTION / James Barr -- EHEU, FUGACES / Raphael Loewe -- MORE THAN MARGINAL UGARIT IN ITS EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SETTING / John F. Healey -- A QUESTIONABLE THEORY OF EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE ON A GENRE OF HEBREW LITERATURE / J. A. Emerton -- ISAIAH, MICAH AND QUMRAN / Hugh G.M. Williamson -- PSALM 135(136):25 IN A JEWISH GREEK INSCRIPTION FROM NICAEA / Alison Salvesen -- DINAH IN A SYRIAC POEM ON JOSEPH / Sebastian Brock -- TWO NOTES ON THE ETHIOPIC TEXT OF EZEKIEL / Michael A. Knibb -- DIE ÄTHIOPISCHEN HANDSCHRIFTEN DER SAMMLUNG BONGARSIANA CODICES / Veronika Six -- AN ARCHAIC AMHARIC POEM ON CONDEMNING WEALTH AND GLORY / Getatchew Haile -- INNOVATION AND MISONEISM DURING THE REIGN OF EMPEROR YOHANNES IV OF ETHIOPIA (1872–1889) / Richard Pankhurst -- TOWARDS A BIOGRAPHY OF NIẒĀM AL-MULK THREE SOURCES FROM IBN AL-‘ADĪM / C. Edmund Bosworth -- JEAN JUSTER AND THE STUDY OF JEWS UNDER ROMAN RULE / Martin Goodman -- DANTE AND MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE / Glenda Abramson -- HUMOUR IN THE NOVELS OF PERETZ SMOLENSKIN / David Patterson -- INDEXES / GEOFFREY KHAN -- STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS / GEOFFREY KHAN.

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This is a Festschrift volume for the British Semitist Edward Ullendorff. It contains papers written by leading scholars in the fields of Semitic philology and Near Eastern history and literature. The contributions are wide-ranging, including linguistic studies of Ethiopian Semitic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek, also papers on ancient Near Eastern, biblical, Islamic and Ethiopian history and papers on Amharic and Modern Hebrew literature.

Chiefly in English with one contribution in Italian and one in German.