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{"title":"Book Review:Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur. Samuel N. Kramer","authors":"T. Jacobsen","doi":"10.1086/370605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370605","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"4 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1941-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120992643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Samuel and the Rise of the Monarchy","authors":"W. Irwin","doi":"10.1086/370598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370598","url":null,"abstract":"From the diverse and conflicting stories of the origin of the Hebrew monarchy given by the First Book of Samuel one fact stands out with the clarity almost of a demonstrated fact: chapter 11 is authentic history. It has certainly been touched up at points in the interests not of accuracy but of theological presuppositions; the introduction of Samuel in verse 7, the exaggerated numbers and the union of Judah with Israel in verse 8, and the account of the \"renewal\" of the kingdom at Gilgal in verses 14-15 are all palpably the harmonistic or tendenz addi-","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1941-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133591555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Graffiti of the Priesthood of the Eleventh Dynasty Temples at Thebes","authors":"H. Winlock","doi":"10.1086/370601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370601","url":null,"abstract":"The simple, unpretentious inhabitants of Thebes during the Middle Kingdom have left very few records of their lives. It is seldom that so much as a line written spontaneously by any of them has survived the accidents of the four thousand years between their days and ours; and even when, on very rare occasions, some of them did scratch their names on the temptingly smooth, soft limestone of their native cliffs, they affected a minute, cramped, practically hieroglyphic hand which is far less likely to attract attention than the flowing hieratic of Ramesside scribes. Thus it is that comparatively few Middle Kingdom graffiti have been noticed among the hundreds of later scribblings on the rocks of Thebes today. The earliest known of these graffiti are near the temple of King Neb-hiepet-R~c Mentu-hotpe at Deir el Bahri. If one climbs as high as he can on the rocky spur which extends along the south side of the temple forecourt (Fig. 1),1 to the point where the cliff rises sheer above him and where the temple site lies some eighty meters below to the right, he will find scratched on the rock: \"Horus Neter Hedjet, King of Upper and Lower Egypt (Neb)-hepet-Rc?, Son of Re2C Mentuhiotpe; (written) by his beloved Wenenef-Rac's son Nenen-R\" (Fig. 2).3 Here we have a man who writes his king's name in the fashion common to the sculptors of the shrines of the princesses in the temple below and who must, therefore, have lived in the earliest years of the reign of Neb-hepet-RIc.4 Near by Nenen-R'c scratched his name once 1 This is the light-colored tongue of rock projecting from the cliff in the right of Fig. 1 -a photograph taken in 1919 by the late Harry Burton. 2 Written within the cartouche.","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1941-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131367906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Four Safaitic Graffiti","authors":"W. H. Worrell","doi":"10.1086/370604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370604","url":null,"abstract":"Early in the spring of 1933 Mr. Carl H. Rogers, a dealer in automobile tires, visited a spot in Transjordan described as \"a hundred miles northeast of Philadelphia and about five miles off the road\" and found \"in a field of stones\" an irregularly shaped piece of sandstone bearing two inscriptions. The stone had been, so he insisted, part of a large jar. Mr. Rogers presented the stone to Mr. Joseph Hawley, a photoengraver of Lansing, Michigan, who brought it to my notice and kindly permitted me to examine it in the fall of 1933. Working with stereoscopic photographs and the original, I found upon the stone no less than four graffiti. These I transcribed and worked out tentatively at the time, but did not publish. The photographs and correspondence were filed with the University Museum; and the latter institution in January, 1940, attempted to acquire the stone but could not locate Mr. Hawley. It remains, therefore, to place the information beyond danger of loss by making the present statements. A spot \"about a hundred miles northeast of Philadelphia\" (that is, Amman) would be about eighteen miles southwest of the oasis ar-Ruhlba, precisely the region where other Safaitic inscriptions have been found. The stone has maximum dimensions of about 5X14 inches. It is slightly concave on one side and flat upon the other, very heavy, and red in color. It appears to have been originally a piece of architectural molding (P1. I). On the concave side are two inscriptions, in two different hands. The first begins at the upper right-hand corner and turns back toward the center after reaching the left-hand edge. The second is underneath the first and inclosed in a sort of cartouche, at one end of which are strokes resembling a mane or a fin. On the flat side is another inscription, in a third hand. This begins at the lower right-hand corner and runs completely around the edge of the surface, which has been outlined, turning inward after completing the circuit. In the center is a figure of the sun with rays. The inscriptions are all in the Safaitic character. Since the third inscription contains two statements, though written in one hand, I here give the text in the form of four graffiti.","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1941-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131348539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Some Repercussions from Late Levitical Genealogical Accretions in P and the Chronicler","authors":"L. Waterman","doi":"10.1086/370588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370588","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1941-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134486375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Notice of a Second-Century Text in Coptic Letters","authors":"W. H. Worrell","doi":"10.1086/370591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370591","url":null,"abstract":"On January 2, 1932, the Egyptian Expedition of the University of Michigan found in the underground passage and adjacent rooms of House No. 1-1121 several score of papyri which seem to have formed a private archive, perhaps belonging to a certain Melas, son of Horion, a priest of the god Soknopaios. The house belonged to the top occupation level on the west side-a level which dates from the early first and early third Christian century. The Greek papyri in this archive range from the time of Trajan to the year A.D. 193. The demotic papyri, found in considerable number with the Greek, have not been examined. On the verso of one of the Greek papyri is a text in Coptic characters. The papyrus is in a very fragmentary condition, and the Greek text of the recto unfortunately has not yet given any clue to the arrangement of the pieces. A few isolated Coptic words, no two connected, and groups of letters which may be imagined as Coptic elements, can be made out, and the language may thus be supposed to be Coptic or Egyptian; but the character and content of the text remain unknown. A very natural disinclination to attempt the reproduction of a text so little understood and the impossibility of publication have been balanced by a feeling of obligation to make some statement in regard to it because of its great age.2 The date of the latest dated hieroglyphic text is August 24, A.D. 394, and of the latest dated demotic text, December 2, A.D. 452.3 The Old Coptic remains are well known:4 a horoscope of the years between A.D. 95 and 1305 on the back (really the recto) of a Greek","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1941-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128453899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pre-Islamic Arab Queens","authors":"N. Abbott","doi":"10.1086/370586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370586","url":null,"abstract":"Arab queens make their first recorded appearance in history with the dramatic entry of the Queen of Sheba and her historic visit to King Solomon in the tenth century before Christ. The familiar biblical version of her story leaves the enterprising queen unnamed and the location of her kingdom within Arabia uncertain. But it depicts her as endowed with wealth, power, knowledge if not wisdom, and curiosity. It furthermore started her on her way to recognition in three great world-faiths. Her story soon captured the imagination of the entire Near East. Fascinating legends, varied by Jewish, Abyssinian, Arab, and Iranian fancies, grew and multiplied about her. These, though they surrounded her with romance and supernatural powers, left her free from neither scandal nor folly. Thus did this unnamed Arab queen, referred to in the Bible and Qur:In simply as the \"Queen of Sheba\" and \"Queen of Saba:,\" respectively, come in time to acquire several names and to be known as the consort of Solomon the Great and the ancestress, if not the foundress, of two dynasties-the Himyars of South Arabia and the recently ended imperial line of Abyssinia. Western Christendom too fell under her spell. European story-tellers juggled the elements of the numerous tales to suit their own fancy, while medieval artists, not to be outdone, told her story in stone. Thus, even today, one may gaze on a statue of the Queen of Sheba as she","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1941-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115091442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Simplified System of Hebrew-English and Aramaic-English Transliteration","authors":"A. A. Brux","doi":"10.1086/370589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370589","url":null,"abstract":"A system of transliteration of Hebrew and Aramaic into English that would be suitable for general use and at the same time capable of serving the ordinary requirements of scholars without having recourse to a host of quaint and curious symbols of phoneticians, national or international, has long been a desideratum. In recent years the need for greater economy in printing philological papers has emphasized the desideratum to the point where it has ceased to be merely a matter of scholarly taste and is felt to be a necessity. The system of transliteration here proposed is offered in the hope that it may meet this twofold need. Since the Hebrew consonants and vowel signs are employed in Aramaic, we shall restrict ourselves in the following discussion to Hebrew, with the understanding that what holds for Hebrew applies to all corresponding phenomena in Aramaic. In evaluating the proposed system it should be borne in mind that it is meant to be a Hebrew-English, not an international system.2 This will explain why the symbols bh, gh, dh, kh, ph, and th have been chosen to represent the spirants, and sh to represent one of the sibilants.3 While v might have served in place of bh, and f in place of ph, the compound symbols were thought to be preferable because of consistency","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"31 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1941-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121723496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"AL....\" in the Superscriptions of the Psalms","authors":"H. G. May","doi":"10.1086/370590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370590","url":null,"abstract":"The variety of interpretations given to this rubric is some indication of the complexity of the problems involved and the difficulty of reaching a completely satisfactory conclusion.' It is hoped that this study will bring us at least one step closer to such a conclusion. It is evident to most recent commentators that this and other rubrics in the psalm superscriptions bear some sort of relation to the use of the Psalms in the temple; unanimity may perhaps be reached on the interpretation of ,:=Z2 as a reference to stringed instruments, but even the familiar MY ub, \"to the director\" (?), is a subject of controversy.3 We may assume that the significance of \" cal .... \" was known in at least the early part of the post-Exilic period, for we find it attached to postExilic psalms;4 but by the time of the Septuagint and later versions there appears to be confusion with regard to its interpretation and sig-","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"87 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1941-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114232908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Berlin Druze Lexicon (Continued)","authors":"M. Sprengli̇ng","doi":"10.1086/370592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/370592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":252942,"journal":{"name":"The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1941-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133243754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}