Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Comparative Study of Semitic Languages

Tawny Holm is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Among her publications on Aramaic language and literature are Of Courtiers and Kings: The Biblical Daniel Narratives and Ancient Story-Collections and Aramaic Literary Texts, the former also published by Eisenbrauns. Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala is Professor of Arabic at the University of Córdoba. His publications include Redefining History on Pre-Islamic Accounts: The Arabic Recension of the Martyrs of Najrân, Eastern Crossroads: Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy, and The Arabic Bible from Late Antiquity: The Hexateuch from the Syro-Hexapla.