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Christian Canu Højgaard examines ancient Near Eastern laws to highlight societal values on issues like poverty and immigration. Using social network analysis (SNA), he uncovers how interactions among social roles impact the community, revealing ancient ethics.

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Discover the fading heritage of Jewish Arabic dialects, spotlighting the Gabes dialect from Southern Tunisia, in Wiktor Gębski's compelling new title.

Semitic Languages and Cultures

Open access book publishing: a series editor writes

In this post, Geoffrey Khan explains why he wanted his book series to be published open access, without charges to authors, and the success that the series has had.

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Diachronic variation in the Omani Arabic vernacular of the al-‘Awabi district. From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the present day

Read now a new blog post by OBP Author Roberta Morano on her OA title 'Diachronic variation in the Omani Arabic vernacular of the al-‘Awabi district. From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the present day'

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On 'A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic'

Read now Esther-Miriam Wagner's reflection on her latest book 'A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic'.

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'The Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew'

The term ‘Biblical Hebrew’ is generally used to refer to the form of the language that appears in the printed editions of the Hebrew Bible and it is this form that it is

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Why you should read ancient law as social networks

How do languages die? The case of the Jewish Arabic dialect of Gabes (Southern Tunisia)

Open access book publishing: a series editor writes

Diachronic variation in the Omani Arabic vernacular of the al-‘Awabi district. From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the present day

On 'A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic'

'The Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew'