Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Aramaic Studies -- What to Do About Citing Ambiguity in a Corpus-Specific Lexicon -- The Jewish Recension of a Syriac Version of Aesop's Fables -- Syriac Manuscripts from Turfan: Public Worship and Private Devotion -- Greek Imperatives and Corresponding Expressions in Christian Palestinian Aramaic -- Reading the Bible with the Taḥtāyā ḏa-Ṯlāṯā -- A New Mandaic Dictionary: Challenges, Accomplishments, and Prospects -- Qlido d-Leshono-Key of Language: A Comprehensive Syriac Lexicon by Abbot Yuyakim of Tur Islo -- Psalm 2 in Syriac: Issues of Text and Language -- Part 2: Hebrew Studies -- A Few Notes concerning the Reading of הסירותי in the Great Isaiah Scroll (Isa 50:6b) -- Cognitive Methodology in the Study of an Ancient Language: Impediments and Possibilities -- Towards a Science of Comparative Classical Hebrew Lexicography -- On Dating Biblical Hebrew Texts: Sources of Uncertainty / Analytic Options -- A Re-Examination of Grammatical Categorization in Biblical Hebrew -- Internationalisms in the Hebrew Press 1860s-1910s as a Means of Language Modernization -- Part 3: Greek Studies -- Preventing Drunkenness in the Christian Gathering: Hints from the Graeco- Roman World and the New Testament -- Basileia or Imperium? Rome and the Rhetoric of Resistance in the Revelation to John -- The Birth of European Linguistic Theory: The Idea of Language in the Sophists -- Amazement, Fear and Being Troubled in Responses in Gospel Miracle Stories: Establishing the Semantic Contours of the Terms and their Interrelations -- The Ass and the Lyre: On a Greek Proverb -- Constituent Order in and Usages of εἰμί - Participle Combinations in the Synoptics and Acts -- Redundancy, Discontinuity and Delimitation in the Epistle of James -- An Examination of Metarepresentation as an Essential Feature of Written and Oral Communication -- Prayer and the Papyri at Oxyrhynchus -- The Lexicographic Editor and the Problem of Consistency