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Akkermans: The Archaeology of Syria. From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000 - 300 BC). Paperback

Archaeology of Syria. From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000–300 BC). Paperback
by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans, Glenn M. Schwartz. 486 pages, 112 line diagrams, 79 half-tones, 13 maps. 2004. This is the first book to present a comprehensive review of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC.

Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. Paperback
translated with an introduction by Sebastian P. Brock & Susan Ashbrook Harvey
xix, 198 pages, 1 illustration, 1 map, bibliography, index. 1998. The 15 hagiographies of holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the 4th to 7th centuries AD, they are translated from Syriac into accessible prose

Yarmuk 636 AD. The Muslim Conquest of Syria
by Nicolle
David Nicolle not only looks at the battle itself but also the whole decisive Arab campaign - from the Muslim invasion of 633/4 to the fall of Byzantine Syria.

Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations. Paperback
edited by Mark W. Chavalas and K. Lawson Younger
396 pages. 2002. Renewed interest in Eastern (or "Mesopotamian") Syria has radically altered our understanding of not only the ancient Near East, but of the Bible as well. Aimed at ancient Near Eastern and biblical scholars, this volume charts the state of our knowledge, following a general chronological flow.

Syrien. Wiege der Kultur. 29,5 cm. Gebunden
by Alain Chenevière
190 Seiten, zahlreichen Farbfotos und 1 farbigen Übersichts-Karte. 1996. Seit frühgeschichtlicher Zeit war Syrien Schmelztiegel der Völker, Religionen und Kulturen: Assyrer und Ägypter, Perser und Phönizier, Griechen und Römer, Mongolen und Türken, fränkische Ritter und osmanische Statthalter kämpften um die Herrschaft in diesem Land voller Gegensätze.

Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates. Cloth
Lisa Cooper. 336 pages. 2006. Studying archaeological evidence from sites, covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, Lisa Cooper's excellent monograph explores the growth and development of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria, during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages from circa 2700 to 1550 BC.

Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic (based on the dialect of Damascus). Paperback.
by Mark W. Cowell
xiv, 587 pages. 2005. Originally created by Cowell in 1964 as part of a series of basic courses, dictionaries, and reference grammars produced by the Georgetown University Arabic Research Program, this text is among a number of out-of-print reference works on Arabic being reissued by Georgetown U. Press

Christlich-orientalisches Wohnhaus des 17. Jahrhunderts aus Aleppo (Syrien). Das Aleppo-Zimmer im Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatlichen Museum zu Berlin.
Julia Gonnella
76 Seiten, mit 42 Farb- und 28 SW-Abbildungen, Literatur, Anmerkungen. 1996

Syriac - English Glossary. With Etymological Notes. Based on Brockelmann's Syriac Chrestmathy. Paperback
M.H. Goshen-Gottstein
x, 95 pages. 1970

Hellenistic Queens. A Study of Women-Power in Macedonia, Seleucid Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt. Paperback
by Grace Harriet Macurdy
250 pages text, bibliography, index, 11 pages illustrations. Reprint 1932 edition

Saracenic Heraldry. A Survey. Cloth
L.A. Mayer
318 pages, 71 plates, bibliography, index. 1933, 1999. All inscriptions in Arabic with English translations. This volume presents a fully documented armorial roll of Saracenic sultans and emirs, designed to meet the requirements of students of Muslim archaeology and covering the geographical area of Syria, Palestine and Egypt during the period from the end of the Crusades to the Ottoman conquest.

Classical Syriac: A Basic Grammar with a Chrestomathy. Paperback.
Takamitsu Muraoka. With a select bibliography compiled by S.P. Brock
xxvii, 244 pages. 2. edition 2005. This grammar consists of a descriptive, namely not historical or comparative, grammar of the language with a fairly extensive morphosyntax and syntax, some practical language exercises with key, verb paradigms, a subject index, a bibliography of 25 pages, an anthology of extensively annotated texts representing various genres of the Syriac literature from various periods in the three Syriac scripts, a glossary and a list of proper nouns occurring in the anthology.

Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia. Paperback
Edited by Roger D. Woodard
282 pages. 2008. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context