Giulia Francesca Grassi, Die semitischen Personennamen in den griechischen und lateinischen Inschriften aus Syrien und dem Libanon. Etymologischer Kommentar zu IGLS I–VII, XI, XVII/1, sowie I. Tyr I und I. Tyr II. Fontes et subsidia ad bibliam pertinentes, 13. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. x, 382. ISBN 9783111331058.Review by
Yang Han, University of Chicago. pascalh@uchicago.edu... In summary, the author is to be congratulated for this invaluable collection and analysis of Semitic names from the Greek and Latin inscriptions of Syria. It presents useful data to aramaicists, arabists and semiticists who might not be familiar with Greek epigraphy, and to classicists who might not be versed in comparative semitics. I hope that the author and their team can keep collecting and analyzing these fascinating onomastic data from the Greco-Roman Near East, and further expand the project to include data from papyri, curse tablets, and literary sources, both Classical and Christian. ...
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