Useful bibliography

This website will present a useful bibliography within our thematic strand. It will be expanded and organized with time.

The inscriptions (selected editorial series, corpora, and checklists):

  • AAES – H.C. Butler et alii (eds.) 1903–. The Publications of an American Archæological Expedition to Syria in 1899–1900 (New York, Century).
  • Beyer, K. 1984. Die aramäischen Texte vom Toten Meer: samt den Inschriften aus Palästina, dem Testament Levis aus der Kairoer Genisa, der Fastenrolle und den alten talmudischen Zitaten: aramaistische Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung, Deutung, Grammatik/Wörterbuch (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).
  • Beyer, K. 1994, Die aramäischen Texte vom Toten Meer: samt den Inschriften aus Palästina, dem Testament Levis aus der Kairoer Geni Ergänzungsband (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).
  • Beyer, K. 2004. Die aramäischen Texte vom Toten Meer, Band 2 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr., Desreumaux, A., Thekeparampil, J., Harrak, A. 2008-. Recueil des inscriptions syriaques, vol. 1, vol. 2/1-2 (Paris: Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres).
  • Brock, S.P. 1978. ‘Syriac inscriptions: A preliminary checklist of European publications’, Annali, Istituto Orientale di Napoli 38, 255–271 (reprinted in: S.P. Brock, Studies in Syriac Christianity, Aldershot 1992: Chapter III).
  • CISCorpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, 1881-.
  • Cotton, H.M., Di Segni, L., Eck, W., Ameling, W., and others (eds.) 2012-. Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae: A Multi-Lingual Corpus of the Inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, vol. 1/1-2, vol. 2, vol. 3 (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter).
  • Donceel-Voûte, P. 1988. Les pavements des églises byzantines de Syrie et du Liban. Décor, archéologie et liturgie (Publications d’histoire de l’art et d’archéologie de l’Université Catholique de Louvain 69, Louvain-la-Neuve: Collège Érasme).
  • Drijvers, H.J.W., Healey, J.F. 1999. The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa & Osrhoene. Texts, Translations and Commentary (Handbuch der Orientalistik I.42, Leyde – Boston – Köln: Brill).
  • Gregg, R.C., Urman, D., Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Golan Heights. Greek and Other Inscriptions of the Roman and Byzantine Eras (South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 140, Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1996).
  • Humbert, J.B. & A. Desreumaux 1998. Khirbet Es-Samra I (Turnhout: Brepols).
  • IGLSyr – Mouterde, R., Sartre, M., Sartre-Fauriat, A., Yon, J.-B., and others (eds.) 1929-. Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie (especially: vol. 13/2: Bostra (Supplément) et la plaine de la Nuqrah [2011]; vol. 15/1: Le plateau du Trachôn et ses bordures [2014]; vol. 17/1: Palmyre [2012]; vol. 21/1: La Jordanie du Nord-Est [2009]).
  • Magen, Y., Misgav, H., Tsfania, I. (eds.) 2004. Mount Gerizim Excavations, vol. 1: The Aramaic, Hebrew and Samaritan Inscriptions (Judea and Samaria Publications 2, Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority).
  • Meimaris, Y.E., Kritikakou, K. (eds.) 2005-. Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia, vol. 1a-c (Athens : National Hellenic Research Foundation).
  • Naveh, J. 1978. On Stone and Mosaic. The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues (Jerusalem).
  • Noy, D., Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis, vol. 3 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004).
  • PAES – H.C. Butler, E. Littmann et alii (eds.) 1907–. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria 1904–5 and 1909 (Leiden: Brill).
  • PAT – Hillers D. & E. Cussini 1996. Palmyrene Aramaic Texts (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
  • Pogon, M. 1907. Inscriptions sémitiques de la Syrie et de la Mésopotamie et de la région du Mosul (Paris).
  • Sharon, M. (ed.) 1997-2017. Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, vol. 1-6 (A-J(1)) (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1: The Near and Middle East 30, Leiden – Boston: Brill).

Secondary literature:

  • Adams, J.N. 2003. Bilingualism and the Latin Language (Cambridge: CUP).
  • Adams, J.N., Janse, M., Swain, S. (eds.) 2002. Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Text (Oxford: OUP).
  • Adler, W. 2017. ‘The creation of Christian elite Culture in Roman Syria and the Near East’, in: D.S. Richter, W.A. Johnson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic (New York: OUP), 655–668.
  • Aggoula, B. 2005. ‘Les inscriptions “édesséniennes” et la naissance de l’écriture et de la langue syriaque’, in: Nos sources. Arts et littérature syriaques (Sources syriaques 1. Antélias: Centre d’Études et de Recherches Orientales), 543-579.
  • Alpi, Fr.N. 2009. La route royale. Sévère d’Antioche et les Églises d’Orient (512–518) (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 188, Beirut: Institut Français du Proche-Orient).
  • Ameling, W. 2009. ‘The epigraphic habit and the Jewish diasporas of Asia Minor and Syria’, [in:] Cotton et alii 2009, pp. 203–232.
  • Ameling, W. 2015. ‘Epigraphy and the Greek language in Hellenistic Palestine’, Scripta Classica Israelica 34, 1-18.
  • Andrade, N.J. 2010-2011, ‘Framing the Syrian of late antiquity: Engagements with Hellenism’, Journal of Modern Hellenism 28, 1-46.
  • Andrade, N.J. 2013. Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge: CUP).
  • Andrade, N. 2018. ‘Syriac and Syrians in the Later Roman Empire: Questions of identity’, in: D. King (ed.), The Syriac World (London – New York: Routledge).
  • Avni, G. 2011. ‘Continuity and change in the cities of Palestine during the early Islamic period: The cases of Jerusalem and Ramla’, in: K.G. Holum, H. Lapin (eds.). Shaping the Middle East: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in an Age of Transition, 400-800 C.E. (Bethesda, Md.: University Press of Maryland), 115-134.
  • Avni, G. 2014. The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach (Oxford: OUP).
  • Backhaus, P. 2007. Linguistic Landscapes. A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo (Clevedon – Buffalo – Toronto: Multilingual Matters Ltd.).
  • Baurain, Cl., Bonnet, C., Krings, V. (eds.) 1991. Phoinikeia Grammata. Lire et écrire en Méditerranée, Actes du IXe Congrès du groupe de contact interuniversitaire d’études phéniciennes et puniques, Liège novembre 1989 (Namur: Société des Études Classiques).
  • Baillet, M. (1991). ‘Sources littéraires samaritaines I. Inscriptions’. Dictionnaire de la Bible. Supplément XI (Letouzey et Ané: Paris).
  • Beltrán Lloris, Fr. 2015. ‘The epigraphic habit in the Roman world’, in Ch. Bruun, J. Edmonson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy (Oxford — New York: OUP), 131-148.
  • Bienkowski, P., Mee, C., Slater, E.A (eds.) 2005. Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society: Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard (New York ; London: T&T Clark).
  • Bingen, J. 2007. ‘Normality and distinctiveness in the epigraphy of Greek and Roman Egypt’, in: R.S. Bagnall, J. Bingen (eds.), Hellenistic Egypt (Berkeley: UCP), 256–278.
  • Biville, Fr. Decourt, J.-Cl. Rougemont, G. (eds.) 2008. Bilinguisme gréco-latin et épigraphie: actes du colloque organisé à l’Université Lumière-Lyon 2 … les 17, 18 et 19 mai 2004 (Collection de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée 37, Série épigraphique et historique 6, Lyon: Maison de l’Orient méditerranéen).
  • Björkvall, A. and others 2017. Anslagstavlan – slutrapport. (Report from the Notice board mass experiment) [in Swedish] (Stockholm: Vetenskap & Allmänhet).
  • Borrut, A., Debié, M., Papaconstantinou, A., Pieri, D., Sodini, J.-P. (eds.), Le Proche-Orient de Justinien aux Abassides : peuplement et dynamiques spatiales : actes du colloque “Continuités de l’occupation entre les périodes byzantine et abbasside au Proche-Orient, VIIe-IXe siècles,” Paris, 18-20 octobre 2007 (Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité tardive 19, Turnhout: Brepols).
  • Bouderbala, S., Denoix, S., Malczycki, M. (eds.) 2017. New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology: Arabic and Multilingual Texts from Early Islam (Leiden: Brill).
  • Bowersock, G.W. 1983. Roman Arabia (Cambridge, Mass. – London: Harvard University Press).
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr. 1991a. ‘Rôle de la langue et de l’écriture syriaques dans l’affirmation de l’identité chrétienne au Proche-Orient’, in: Cl. Baurain, C. Bonnet, V. Krings (eds.), Phoinikeia Grammata. Lire et écrire en Méditerranée, Actes du IXe Congrès du groupe de contact interuniversitaire d’études phéniciennes et puniques, Liège novembre 1989 (Namur: Société des Études Classiques), 257-274.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr. 1991b. Les derniers témoignages sur la langue phénicienne en Orient’, Rivista di studi fenici 19, 1-21.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr. 1991-1993. ‘Les Arabes en Arabie du nord et au Proche-Orient avant l’Hégire’, in: Chr. Robin (ed.), L’Arabie antique de Karib’îl à Mahomet: nouvelles données sur l’histoire des Arabes grâce aux insciptions (Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée 61, Aix-en-Provence: Édisud) 37-43.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr. (ed.) 1996. Mosaïque de langues, mosaïque culturelle: le bilinguisme dans le Proche-Orient ancien : actes de la table-ronde du 18 novembre 1995 organisée par l’URA 1062 “Etudes sémitiques” (Paris: Maisonneuve).
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr. 1997. ‘De l’araméen à l’arabe: quelques réflexions sur la genèse de l’écriture arabe’, in: Fr. Déroche, Fr. Richard, Scribes et manuscrits du Moyen-Orient (Études et recherches, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France), 135-149.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr. 2001. ‘De l’écriture édessénienne à l’estrangela et au serto’, Semitica 50, 81–90.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr. 2010. ‘L’inscription de Bamuqqa et la question du bilinguisme gréco-syriaque dans le massif calcaire de Syrie du Nord’, in: Fr. Briquel Chatonnet, M. Debié (eds.) Sur les pas des Araméens chrétiens. Mélanges offerts à Alain Desreumaux (Cahiers d’études syriaques 1, Paris: Geuthner), 269-277.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr. 2011. ‘Syriac as the language of Eastern Christianity’, in: S. Weninger (ed.), The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 36, Berlin – Boston: de Gruyter), 652-659.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr. 2013. “Les inscriptions syriaques du Massif Calcaire de Syrie du Nord”, in: G. Charpentier, V. Puech (eds.). Villes et campagnes aux rives de la Méditerranée ancienne. Hommages à Georges Tate (Topoi, Suppl. 12, Lyon: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée), 25-31.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr. 2016. ‘Syriac inscriptions in Syria’, in: Y. Kanjou & A. Tsuneki (eds.). A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites (Oxford: Archeopress), 411-413.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr., Desreumaux, A. 2004. ‘Les inscriptions syriaques de Turquie et de Syrie’, in: Fr. Briquel Chatonnet, M. Debié, A. Desreumaux (eds.) 2004. Les inscriptions syriaques (Etudes syriaques 1, Paris: P. Geuthner), 15-27.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr., Debié, M., Desreumaux, A. (eds.) 2004. Les inscriptions syriaques (Etudes syriaques 1, Paris: P. Geuthner).
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr., Khoury, W., Desreumaux, A. (eds.) 2004-2005. ‘Inscriptions syriaques de Syrie. Premiers résultats’, Annales archéologiques arabes syriennes 47-48, 187-195.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, F., Desreumaux, A., Moukarzel, J. 2008. ‘Découverte d’une inscription syriaque mentionnant l’évêque Rabbula’, in: Festschrift Sebastian Brock, Pisticaway, Gorgias Press, 19–27.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr., Beaucamp, J., Robin, Chr. (eds.) 2010. Juifs et chrétiens en Arabie aux Ve et VIe siècles: regards croisés sur les sources (Centre de recherche d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance, Monographies 32, Le massacre de Najrân 2, Paris: Association des amis du Centre d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance).
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr., Desreumaux, A. 2011a. ‘Oldest Syriac inscription on a mosaic from Nabgha, Syria’, Hugoye 14/1, 45-61.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr., Desreumaux, A. 2011b. ‘Syriac inscriptions in Syria’, Hugoye 14/1, 27-44.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, Fr., Daccache, J. 2016. ‘Researches on Syriac writing in the hinterland of Antioch’, The Harp 30, 417-436.
  • Briquel Chatonnet, F., Debié, M., Nehmé, L. (eds.), Le contexte de naissance de l’écriture arabe. Écrit et écritures araméennes et arabes au 1er millénaire après J.-C. Actes du colloque international du projet ANR Syrab (Orientalia Lovaniensa Analecta, Leuven: Peeters) [forthcoming].
  • Brock, S.P. 1996. ”Greek words in Syriac: Some general features”, Scripta Classica Israelica 15, 251-262.
  • Brock, S.P. 2004. ‘Secondary formations from Greek loanwords in Syriac’, Studia Orientalia 99, 31-39.
  • Brock, S.P. 2005. ‘Greek and Latin words in Palmyrene inscriptions: A comparison with Syriac’, Pages in: E. Cussini (ed.), A Journey to Palmyra: Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 22, Leiden – Boston: Brill), 11-25.
  • Brock, S.P. 2009. ‘Edessene Syriac inscriptions in late antique Syria’, in: H. Cotton (ed.). From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East (Cambridge: CUP), 289-302.
  • Brock, S.P. 2012. ‘Dating formulae in Syriac inscriptions and manuscripts of the 5th and 6th centuries’, in: G.A. Kiraz, Z. al-Salameen (eds.), From Ugarit to Nabataea. Studies in Honor of John F. Healey (Gorgias Ugaritic Studies 6, Piscataway, NJ), 85-106.
  • Butts, A.M. 2014a. ‘Greek Loanwords in Syriac’, in: G. Giannakis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (Leiden: Brill), s.v.
  • Butts, A.M. 2014b. ‘The use of Syriac derivational suffixes with Greek loanwords’, Orientalia 83, 207-237.
  • Butts, A.M. 2015. Semitic Languages in Contact (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 82, Leiden: Brill).
  • Butts, A.M. 2016. Language Change in the Wake of Empire: Syriac in its Greco-Roman Context (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 11, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns) [cf. a review: Gzella 2016].
  • Caballo, G. 2014. ‘Some Reflections on the Continuity of Greek Culture in the East in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries’, in: S.F. Johnson (ed.), Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Greek (The Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300–1500 6, Farnham, England: Ashgate), 387-398.
  • Cabouret, B. 2013. ‘Élites de l’Orient romain à la campagne dans l’Antiquité tradive’, in: G. Charpentier, V. Puech (eds.). Villes et campagnes aux rives de la Méditerranée ancienne. Hommages à Georges Tate (Topoi, Suppl. 12, Lyon: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée), 421-457.
  • Charpentier, G., Puech V. (eds.) 2013. Villes et campagnes aux rives de la Méditerranée ancienne. Hommages à Georges Tate (Topoi, Suppl. 12, Lyon: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée).
  • Choueiri, Y.M. 2017. ‘[Review:] Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam. By Peter Webb. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 403′, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 76, 377-379.
  • Clackson, J. 2012. ‘Language maintenance and language shift in the Mediterranean world during the Roman Empire’, in: A. Mullen, P. James (eds.), Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (Cambridge: CUP), 36-57.
  • Cooley, A. 2000. The Epigraphic Landscape of Roman Italy (London : Institute of Classical Studies).
  • Cotton, H. (ed.) 2009. From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East (Cambridge : CUP).
  • Cotton, H.M., Cockle, W.E.H., Millar, F. 1995. ‘The papyrology of the Roman Near East: A survey’ Journal of Roman Studies 85, 214-235.
  • Cuomo, A.M. & Trapp E. (eds.) 2017. Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval Greek (Turnhout: Brepols).
  • Debié, M. 2016. ‘Christians in the service of the caliph: Through the looking glass of communal identities’, in: A. Borrut, F. McGraw Donner (eds.) Christians and Others in the Umayyad State (Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East 1, Chicago, Illinois: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago), 53-72.
  • Dempsey, D.A. 2012. ‘The question of First language in Arabic, Syriac, & Hebrew Texts’, in: R.C. Taylor, I.A. Omar (eds.), Judeo-Christian-Islamic Heritage: Philosophical & Theological Perspectives (Marquette Studies in Philosophy 75, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press), 25-37.
  • Desreumaux, A., 1998. ‘Introduction. Histoire des documents araméens Melkites. L’invetion du chisto-palestinien’, in: Humbert & Desreumaux 1998, 1–17.
  • Desreumaux, A., Humbert, J.-B., Thébault, G., Bauzou, Th. 2011. ‘Des Romains, des Araméens et des Arabes dans le Balqa’ Jordanien: les cas de Hadeitha – Khirbet es Samra’, in: A. Borrut, M. Debié, A. Papaconstantinou, D. Pieri, J.-P. Sodini (eds.), Le Proche-Orient de Justinien aux Abassides : peuplement et dynamiques spatiales : actes du colloque “Continuités de l’occupation entre les périodes byzantine et abbasside au Proche-Orient, VIIe-IXe siècles,” Paris, 18-20 octobre 2007 (Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité tardive 19, Turnhout: Brepols), 285-304.
  • Di Segni, L. 1995. ‘The involvement of local, municipal and provincial authorities in urban building in late antique Palestine and Arabia’, in: J. Humphries (ed.). The Roman and Byzantine Near East: Some Recent Archaeological Research (Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary Series 14, Ann Arbor: MI: Journal of Roman Archaeology), 312-332.
  • Di Segni, L. 2017. ‘Late antique inscriptions in the provinces of Palaesina and Arabia. Realities and change’, in: K. Bolle, C. Machado and C. Witschel (eds.), The Epigraphic Cultures of Late Antiquity (Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag), 287-323.
  • Di Segni, L., Tepper, Y. 2004. ‘A Greek inscription dated by the era of Hegira in an Umayyad Church at Tamra in Eastern Galilee’, Liber Annuus 54, 343-350.
  • Di Segni, L., Tsafrir, Y., Green, J. 2015. The Onomasticon of Iudaea, Palaestina, and Arabia in Greek and Latin Sources, vol. 1: Introduction, Sources and Major Texts (Jerusalem: ).
  • Dijkstra, J.H.F., Fisher G. (eds.) 2014. Inside and Out: Interactions between Rome and the Peoples on the Arabian and Egyptian Frontiers in Late Antiquity (Leuven: Peeters).
  • Eastmond, A. (ed.) 2015. Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World (Cambridge: CUP).
  • Eger, A.A., 2015. The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange among Muslim and Christian Communities (London: I.B. Tauris).
  • Feissel, D. 2010. Documents, droit, diplomatique de l’Empire romain tardif (Paris: Association du CHCB).
  • Fiema Z.T., Al-Jallad A., Macdonald M.C.A., Nehmé L. 2015, ‘Provincia Arabia: Nabataea, the emergence of Arabic as a written language, and Graeco-Arabica’, in: Fisher 2015, 276–373.
  • Finkelstein, I., Römer, Th., Robin, Chr. (eds.) 2016. Alphabets, Texts and Artifacts in the Ancient Near East: Studies Presented to Benjamin Sass (Paris: Van Dieren).
  • Fisher G. (ed.) 2015. Arabs and Empires before Islam (Oxford: OUP).
  • Foietta, E., Ferrandi, C., Quirico, E., Giusto, F., Mortarini, M., Bruno, J., Somma, L. (eds.) 2016. Cultural and Material Contacts in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the International Workshop 1-2 December 2014, Torino (Sesto Fiorentino: apice libri).
  • Fraade, S.D. 2012., ‘Language mix and multilingualism in ancient Palestine: Literary and inscriptional evidence’, Jewish Studies 48, 1-40.
  • Flusin, B. 2014. ‘From Arabic to Greek, then to Georgian: A Life of Saint John of Damascus’, in: S.F. Johnson (ed.), Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Greek (The Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300–1500 6, Farnham, England: Ashgate), 483-494.
  • Fournet, J.-L. 2011. ‘The multilingual environment of late antique Egypt: Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Persian documentation’, in: R. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbok of Papyrology (Oxford: OUP), 418-451.
  • Galinsky, K. 2016. Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity (Oxford: OUP).
  • Gascou, J. 2009. ‘The Papyrology of the Near East’ in: R. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford: OUP), 473-494.
  • Gatier, P.-L. 2011. ‘Inscriptions grecques, mosaïques et églises des débuts de l’époque islamique au Proche-Orient (VIIe-VIIIe) siècles’, in: A. Borrut, M. Debié, A. Papaconstantinou, D. Pieri, J.-P. Sodini (eds.), Le Proche-Orient de Justinien aux Abassides : peuplement et dynamiques spatiales : actes du colloque “Continuités de l’occupation entre les périodes byzantine et abbasside au Proche-Orient, VIIe-IXe siècles,” Paris, 18-20 octobre 2007 (Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité tardive 19, Turnhout: Brepols), 7-28.
  • Gatier, P.-L. 2015. ‘Les Jafnides dans l’épigraphie grecque au VIe siècle’, in: D. Genequand, Chr. Robin (eds.). Les Jafnides, des rois arabes au service de Byzance (VIe siècle de l’ère chrétienne). Actes du colloque de Paris, 24-25 novembre 2008 (Orient et Méditerranée 17, Paris: Éditions De Boccard), 193-222.
  • Genequand, D., Robin, Chr. (eds.) 2015. Les Jafnides, des rois arabes au service de Byzance (VIe siècle de l’ère chrétienne). Actes du colloque de Paris, 24-25 novembre 2008 (Orient et Méditerranée 17, Paris: Éditions De Boccard).
  • Gregg, R.C. 2000. ‘Marking religious and ethnic boundaries: Cases from the ancient Golan Heights’, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 69, 519–557.
  • Griffith, S.H. 1997. ‘From Aramaic to Arabic: The languages of the monasteries of Palestine in the Byzantine and early Islamic periods’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 51, 11-31.
  • Grohmann, A. 1963. Arabic Papyri from Hirbet el-Mird (Leuven: Publications universitaires).
  • Grohmann, A. 1971. Arabische Paläographie, vol. 2: Das Schriftwesen. Die Lapidarschrift (Wien: Böhlaus).
  • Gruendler, B. 1993. The Development of the Arabic Scripts: From the Nabatean Era to the First Islamic Century according to the Dated Texts (Atlanta, Ga: Scholars Press).
  • Gudme, A. K. de H. (2013). Before the God in This Place for Good Remembrance: A Comparative Analysis of the Aramaic Votive Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim (Berlin: De Gruyter).
  • Guidetti, M. 2017. In the Shadow of the Church: The Building of Mosques in Early Medieval Syria (Leiden, Netherlands – Boston, Massachusetts: Brill).
  • Gzella, H. 2015. A Cultural History of Aramaic: From the Beginning to the Advent of Islam (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Leiden: Brill).
  • Gzella, H. 2016. ‘[Review:] Language Change in the Wake of Empire: Syriac in Its Greco-Roman Context by A. M. Butts.’ Bibliotheca Orientalis 73 (5-6), 759-773.
  • Haensch, R. 2010. ‘Archäologie und Epigraphik…’, Kölner Jahrbuch 43, 289–295.
  • Haldon, J. (ed.) 2010. Money, Power and Politics in Early Islamic Syria. A Review of Current Debates (Farnham: Ashgate), 57-74.
  • Halevi, L. 2007. Muhammad’s Grave. Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Chichester: CUP).
  • Hamers, J.F., Blanc, M.H.A. 1989. Bilinguality and Bilingualism (Cambridge: CUP).
  • Handley, M.A. 2003. Death, Society and Culture (Oxford: Archaeopress).
  • Harrak, A. 2001. ‘Recent archaeological excavations in Takrit and the discovery of Syriac inscriptions’, JCSSS 1 (2001), 11–40.
  • Harrak, A. 2004. ‘Les inscriptions syriaques de l’Iraq expression d’une culture littéraire’, in: Fr. Briquel Chatonnet, M., Debié, A., Desreumaux (eds). Les inscriptions syriaques (Etudes syriaques 1, Paris: P. Geuthner), 75-106.
  • Holum, K.G., Lapin, H. (eds.) 2011. Shaping the Middle East. Jews, Christians, and Muslims in an Age of Transition, 400-800 C.E. (Bethesda, MD: University Press of Maryland).
  • Hoyland, R.G. 2001. Arabia and the Arabs. From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam (London – New York: Routledge).
  • Hoyland, R.G. 2004. ‘Language and identity. The twin histories of Arabic and Aramaic (and: Why did Aramaic succeed where Greek failed?)’, Scripta Classica Israelica 23, 183-199.
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