“…Some focus on the semantic and syntactic features of the biblical text and its impact on cultural memory while others deal with textual witnesses in the Dead Sea scrolls, Ethiopic sources, and Arabic translations. The volume gives readers a representative view of recent research on the Hebrew Bible"--…”

“…In other words, each paper explores how the various processes at both the local and global level intersect to create new discourses and debates round the »indigenization of knowledge.« If a new wind of cultural decolonization is blowing through the Arab Middle East, which is having profound impact on the lives of men and women, then we should expect a new scholarship to emerge in order to grasp and understand it. …”

“…., Ibn al-Munajjim asserts that Arabic music is rooted in a non-Greek heritage. Our research points to historical and musicological facts about the existence of a Sumero-Akkadian musical system that prevailed in the ancient Middle East and whose traces of oral transmission would have remained until the 9th century A.D. …”

“…Unlike Nectarius and subsequent inventories, however, Ioasaph refers to the Sinai Arabic and Greek manuscripts in which he found the information in question. …”