Aram Periodical is a refereed journal, published by the Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies.
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Editor: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford) Email: shafiq.abouzayd@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Advisory Editorial Board:
Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University), Dr. Jorunn J. Buckley (Bowdoin College-USA), Dr. J. F. Coakley, (University of Cambridge), Prof. Rifaat Ebied (University of Sydney) Prof. Michael Gawlikowski (Warsaw University), Prof. John Healey (Manchester University), Prof Amos Kloner (Bar Ilan University), Prof. Peter Machinist (Harvard University), Prof. Wilfred Madelung (University of Oxford), Prof. Kurt Rudolph (Philipps-Universität), Dr. David Taylor (University of Oxford).
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Volume 1, Number 1, 1989
Prof. Nicholas Postgate (University of Cambridge):
“Ancient Assyria - A Multi-Racial State.” PP. 1-10
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford):
“Three thousand years of Aramaic literature.” PP. 11-23
Mr. Alan R. Millard (University of Liverpool):
“Mesopotamia and the Bible.” PP. 24-30
Dr. John F. Healey (University of Manchester):
“Ancient Aramaic culture and the Bible.” PP. 31-37
Dr. John F. Healey (University of Manchester):
“Were the Nabataeans Arabs?” PP. 38-44
Dr. Michael W. Dols (University of California):
“Syriac into Arabic: the transmission of Greek medicine.” PP. 45-52
Dr. Sebastian P. Brock (University of Oxford):
“The dispute between soul and body: an example of a long-lived Mesopotamian literary genre.” PP. 53-64
Dr. Hashim Behbehani (University of Kuwait):
“Arab-Chinese military encounters: two case studies 715-751 A.D.” PP. 65-112
Mr. Moussa M. Domit (New York Arts Gallery):
“The Art of Saliha Douaihy.” PP. 113-138
ARAM Newsletter. 139-147
Dr. Yusef M. Ishaq (University of Stockholm):
“The historical sources of Abu al’Faraj al’Mati” (In Arabic). PP. 149-172
Dr. Yusef M. Ishaq (University of Stockholm):
“Gregorius Abu’l Faraj, Bar Hebraeus, and his ‘History of Nations’.” (In Arabic). PP. 173-198
ARAM Newsletter (in Arabic).PP.199-205
Volume 1, Number 2, 1989
Prof. Paul E. Dion (University of Toronto):
“Medical personnel in the ancient Near East. Asû and ashipu in Aramaic Garb.” PP. 206-216
Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford):
“The Acts of Thomas and the unity of the dualistic world in the Syrian Orient.” PP. 217-252
Dr. Zeidoun Al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University):
“Yasileh.” PP. 253-257
Dr. Hugh Kennedy (St Andrew's University):
“Change and continuity in Syria and Palestine at the time of the Moslem conquest.” PP. 258-267
Dr. Sebastian P. Brock (University of Oxford):
“Syriac culture in the Seventh century.” PP. 268-280
Mr. Nicholas Campion (Bristol):
“The concept of destiny in Islamic astrology and its impact on Mediaeval European thought.” PP. 281-289
Prof. Michael Hollerich (Santa Clara University):
“Arthur Vööbus Remembered.” PP. 290-293
Dr. Sebastian P. Brock (University of Oxford):
“Arthur Vööbus' contribution to Syriac Studies.” PP. 294-299
ARAM Newsletter. PP. 300-307
Dr. Youssif Qozi (University of Baghdad):
“The letter qaf in Arabic and its different sounds in the Semitic languages.” (In Arabic). PP. 308-317
Dr. Yusef M. Ishaq (University of Stockholm):
“The Syriac translation of the Peshitta.” (In Arabic). PP. 318-327
Dr. Yusef Habbi (Irqi Academic Committee):
“The Syriac contribution to Arab civilisation.” (In Arabic). PP. 328-343
ARAM Newsletter. (In Arabic). PP. 344-346
Volume 2, Numbers 1&2, 1990
Proceedings of the ARAM First International Conference:
The Nabataeans
(University of Oxford)
Under the Patronage of H.R.H. Crown Prince Hassan bin Talal
Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen & Dr. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University):
“A la mémoire de Père Jean Starcky.” PP. 1-5
Mr. Peter Parr (University of London):
“Sixty years of excavation in Petra: a critical assessment.” PP. 7-23
Prof. John R. Bartlett (University of Dublin):
“From Edomites to Nabataeans: the problem of continuity.” PP. 25-34
Dr. Piotr Bienkowski (Museum of Liverpool):
“The chronology of Tawilan and the "Dark Age" of Edom.” PP. 35-44
Prof. David Graf (University of Miami):
“The origin of the Nabataeans.” PP. 45-75
Dr. Manfred Lindner (Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Nurnberg):
“A unique lithic early bronze Edomite-Nabataean site in southern Jordan: both past and present.” PP. 77-92
Dr. John Healey (University of Manchester):
“The Nabataean contribution to the development of the Arabic script.” PP. 93-98
Prof. William J. Jobling (University of Sydney):
“Some New Nabataean and North Arabian Inscriptions of the Hisma in Southern Jordan.” PP. 99-111
Dr. Youssif Qozi (University of Baghdad):
“Remarques sur une inscription Nabatéene de Mada`in Salih/Al-Higr.” PP. 113-122
Mr. Karl Schmidt-Korte (Frankfurt):
“An early Christian record of the Nabataeans: the Maslam inscription (ca. 350 A.D.)” PP. 123-142
Dr. Robert Wenning (University of Münster):
“Two forgotten Nabataean inscriptions.” PP. 143-150
Dr. Fawzi Zayadine (Department of Antiquities, Jordan):
“The Pantheon of the Nabataean inscriptions in Egypt and the Sinai.” PP. 151-174
Dr. Ernst Axel Knauf (University of Heidelberg):
“Dushara and Shai al-Qaum.” PP. 175-183
Dr. Joseph Patrich (University of Haifa):
“Prohibition of a graven image among the Nabataeans: the evidence and its significance.” PP. 185-186
Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University):
“Baalshamin dans le monde Nabatéen: à propos de découvertes récentes.” PP. 197-203
Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University):
“Maîtrise de l'eau et agriculture en Nabatène: l'exemple de Petra.” PP. 205-220
Mr. Julian M.C. Bowsher (Museum of London):
“Early Nabataean coinage.” PP. 221-228
Mrs. Jaqueline Dentzer-Feydy (Universsity of Paris 1 -Sorbonne):
“Khirbet Edh-Dharih: architectural decoration of the temple.” PP. 229-234
Dr. David J. Johnson (Brigham Young University):
“Nabataean piriform unguentaria.” PP. 235-248
Mrs. Marie Killick (Oxford):
“Les Nabatéen a Udhruh.” PP. 249-252
Mrs. Diana Kirkbride (Copenhagen):
“The Nabataeans, Trajan and the Periplus.” PP. 253-265
Dr. Margaret B. Lyttleton & Dr. Thomas F.C. Blagg (London):
“Sculpture from the tenemos of Qasr el-Bint at Petra.” PP. 267-286
Mr. James R.B. Mason & Dr. Khairieh ‘Amr (Department of Antiquities, Amman):
“A study of Nabataean pottery manufacturing techniques. An experiment for reconstructing the production of fine bowls.” PP. 287-307
Dr. Gerald L. Mattingly (Johnson Bible College):
“Settlement on Jordan's Kerak plateau from Iron Age IIC through the early Roman period.” PP. 309-335
Prof. Avraham Negev (Hebrew University):
“Mampsis - the end of a Nabataean town.” PP. 337-365
Dr. François Villeneuve (Ecole Normale Superieure):
“The pottery from the oil factory at Khirbet EDh-Dharih (2nd century A.D.).” PP. 367-384
Dr. John P. Zeitler (Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Nurnberg):
“A private building from the first century B.C. in Petra.” PP. 385-420
Dr. Mohammad Abdul-Latif Abdul Karim (University of Baghdad):
“The Nabataeans in the Arab tradition.” PP. 421-424
Dr. Salih Harmarneh (University of Jordan):
“The Nabataeans after the decline of the political power: from the Arabic Islamic sources.” PP. 425-436
ARAM Newsletter. 437-447
Volume 3, Numbers 1, 1991
Proceedings of the ARAM Second International Conference:
Cultural Interchange during the Abbasid Era
(Oxford University)
Prof. Michael Morony (University od California.L.A.):
“The Aramaean population in the economic life of early Islamic Iraq.” PP. 1-6
Dr. Carmela Baffioni (University of Naples):
“Probable Syriac influences in the Ikhwan al-Safa''s logical epistles?” PP. 7-22
Dr. Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford):
“The Gilgamesh epic and Manichaean themes.” PP. 23-33
Prof. Wilferd Madelung (University of Oxford):
“Al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim and Christian theology.” PP. 35-44
Dr. Hans Daiber (Vreije University, Amsterdam):
“Nestorians of 9th century Iraq as a source of Greek, Syriac and Arabic. A survey of some unexploited sources.” PP. 45-52
Dr. Bo Holmberg (University of Lund):
“The trinitarian terminology of Israel of Kashkar (d. 872).” PP. 53-81
Dr. Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew University):
“The impact of Syriac tradition on early Judaeo-Arabic bible exegesis.” PP. 83-96
Dr. Johannes den Heijer (University of Leiden):
“Syriacisms in the Arabic version of Aristotle's Historia Animalium.” PP. 97-114
Prof. Sidney H. Griffith (Catholic University of America):
“The apologetic treatise of Nonnus of Nisibis.” PP. 115-138
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford):
“The Syriac background to Hunayn's translation techniques.” PP. 139-162
Dr. Gotthard Strohmaier (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, Berlin):
“Hunain ibn Ishaq - an Arab scholar translating into Syriac.” PP. 163-170
Dr. Samir Khalil Samir (Université St Joseph-Beyrouth):
“Un traité perdu de Hunayn ibn Ishaq retrouvé dans la ‘Somme d'ibn al-‘Assal.” PP. 171-192
Dr. Henri Hugonnard-Roche (C.N.R.S. Paris):
“Contributions Syriaques aux etudes Arabes de logique à l’époque Abbasside.” PP. 193-210
Mr. Robert Hoyland (University of Oxford):
“Arabic, Syriac and Greek historiography in the first Abbasid century: An inquiry into inter-cultural traffic.” PP. 211-233
Dr. Mauro Zonta (University of Pavia):
“Ibn al-Tayyib, zoologist and Hunayn ibn Ishaq's revision of Aristotle's De Animalibus - New evidence from the Hebrew tradition.” 235-247
Volume 3, Number 2, 1991
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford):
“‘Come, Compassionate Mother..., come Holy Spirit’: a forgotten aspect of early Eastern Christian imagery.” PP. 249-257
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford):
“Some new Syriac documents from the third century A.D.” PP. 259-267
Dr. Shamil Kubba (Jordan):
“The origins of the Islamic city.” PP. 269-285
Prof. Irfan Shahid (Georgetown University):
“In Memoriam: Metropolitan Gregorius Bulus Behnam, 1916-1969.” PP. 287-291
Dr. Elizabeth Theokritoff (New Jersey):
“The life of our holy father Alexander (a translation)”. PP. 293-318
Dr. Chris Lightfoot (Bilkent University, Ankara) & Dr. Joseph Naveh (Hebrew University):
“A north Mesopotamian Aramaic inscription on a relief in the Tigris gorge.” PP. 319-336
ARAM Newsletter. PP. 339-361
Volume 4, Numbers 1&2, 1992
Proceedings of the ARAM Third International:
The Decapolis: History and Archaeology
(University of Oxford)
Prof. David Graf (University of Miami):
“Hellenisation and the Decapolis.” PP. 1-48
Dr. Martin Goodman (University of Oxford):
“Jews in the Decapolis.” PP. 49-56
Dr. W. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary-USA):
“Abila: a thriving Greco-Roman city of the Decapolis.” PP. 57-77
Dr. Robert Wenning (University of Münster):
“Nabataeans in the Decapolis/Coele Syria.” PP. 79-99
Dr. Ali Zeyadeh (Birzeit University):
“Urban Transformation in the Decapolis cities of Jordan.” PP. 101-115
Dr. Gideon Foerster & Prof. Yoram Tsafrir (Hebrew University):
“Nysa-Scythopolis in the Roman period: ‘a Greek city of Coele Syria’ - Evidence from the excavations at Bet-Shean.” PP. 117-138
Dr. Maurice Sartre (François Rabelais University):
“Les cités de Décapole septentrionale: Canatha, Raphana, Dion et Ahadra.” PP. 139-156
Dr. Michael Fuller & Mrs Neathery Fuller (St Louis Community College-USA):
“Regional Survey and ethnoarcharological investigations at Abila.” PP. 157-171
Dr. Pau Figuras (Ben-Gurion University):
“The Roman worship of Athena-Allat in the Decapolis and the Negev.” PP. 173-183
Mr. Jacques Seigne (IFAPO-Amman):
“A l'ombre de Zeus et d'Artemis, Gerasa de la écapole.” PP. 185-195
Dr. Robert H. Smith (College of Wooster-USA):
“Some pre-Christian religions at Pella of he Decapolis.” PP. 197-214
Dr. Robert W. Smith (Miami University):
“Secondary use of the necropoleis of the Decapolis.” PP. 215-228
Dr. Dominique Tarrier & Dr. Zeidoun Al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University):
“La nécropole de Yasileh et les tombeaux du nord de la Jordanie.” PP. 229-244
Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University):
“Le site de Yasileh et la Décapole.” PP. 245-251
Dr. Margaret O'Hea (University of Adelaide):
“The glass industry of the Decapolis.” PP. 253-264
Mr. Julian Bowsher (Museum of London):
“Civic organisation within the Decapolis.” PP. 265-281
Dr. Yizhar Hirschfeld & Dr. Erez Cohen (Israel Antiquities Authority):
“The reconstruction of the Roman baths at Hammath Gader.” PP. 283-306
Dr. Leah di Segni (Hebrew University):
“Greek inscriptions of the bath-house in Hammath Gader.” PP. 307-328
Dr. John D. Wineland (Miami University):
“Archaeological and numismatic evidence for the Political structure and Greco-Roman religions of the Decapolis, with particular emphasis on Gerasa & Abila.” PP. 329-342
Prof. Alan Walmsley (University of Sidney):
“Vestiges of the Decapolis in north Jordan during the Late Antique and Early Islamic periods.” PP. 343-355
Dr. Willard W. Winter (Cincinati Bible College and Seminary):
“A Byzantine basilica at Abila.” PP. 357-369
Dr. Karel J. Vriezen (University of Utrecht):
“The centralised church in Umm Qais (andcient Gadara).” PP. 371-386
Mr. Robert Guinée & Miss. Nicole Mulder (University of Utrecht):
“Survey of the Terrace and western theatre area in Umm Qais.” PP. 387-406
Miss. Susanne Kerner (German Protestant Institute of Archaeology):
“Umm Qais-Gadara: recent excavations.” PP. 407-423
Dr. Esti Dvorjetzki (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
“Medicinal hot springs in Eretz-Israel and the Decapolis during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods.” 425-449
ARAM Newsletter. PP. 451-457
A Festschrift for Dr Sebastian P. Brock
Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford):
“Sebastian Paul Brock: Life and Work.” PP. 1-22
Prof. Luise Abramowski (University of Tübingen):
“Die Reste der syrischen Übersetzung von Theodor von Mopsuestia, De Incarnatione, in add 14669.” PP. 23-32
Dr. Micheline Albert (Université de Sorbonne):
“Lettre de Grégoire de Nysse à son frère Pierre d'Annési-Sébaste.” PP. 33-64
Dr. David Bundy (Christian Theological Seminary-USA):
“Revising the Diatessaron against the Manichaeans: Ephrem of Syria on John 1:4.” PP. 65-74
Dr. James T. Clemons (Wesley Theological Seminary-USA):
“Syriac Studies in the United States: 1783-1900.” PP. 75-86
Dr. J F Coakley (Harvard University):
“Yaroo M Neesan, `a missionary to his own people'.” PP. 87-101
Dr. Johann Cook (University of Stellenbosch):
“Syriac studies in South Africa.” PP. 101-114
Dr. Peter S. Cowe (Columbia University):
“Philoxenus of Mabbug and the Synod of Manazkert.” PP. 115-129
Prof. André de Halleux (Université de Louvain):
“L'annonciation à Marie dans le commentaire syriaque du Diatessaron.” PP. 131-145
Prof. Han J. W. Drijvers (Groningen University):
“New Syriac inscriptions.” PP. 147-161
Dr. Jean-Marie Fiey (Université St Joseph-Beyrout):
“L'imprimerie des Dominicains de Mossoul 1860-1914.” PP. 163-174
Dr. François Graffin (Paris):
“Adresses d'un supérieur de monastère à ses frères.” PP. 175-179
Prof. Sidney H Griffith & Ms. Monica Blanchard (Catholic University of America):
“Henri Hyvernat (1858-1941) and the beginning of Syriac Studies at the Catholic University of America.” PP. 181-196
Dr. Mary Hansbury (Philadelphia):
“Nature as soteric: Syriac and Buddhist traditions.” PP. 197-217
Prof. Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown University):
“The memory and meaning of a saint: two homilies on Simeon Stylites.” PP. 219-241
Dr. Erica C.D. Hunter (Cambridge University):
“A scroll amulet from Kurdistan.” PP. 243-254
Mr. Konrad Jenner (Rijks University-Leiden):
“A review of the methods by which Syriac biblical and related manuscripts have been described and analysed.” PP. 255-266
Dr. Hubert Kaufhold (University of Munich):
“Über Datum und Schreiber der Handschrift Vaticanus Syriacus 51.” PP. 267-275
Dr. David J. Lane (College of the Resurrection-England):
“Admonition and analogy: 13 chapters from Shubhalmaran.” PP. 277-284
Prof. Michael Lattke (University of Queensland-Australia):
“Die griechischen Wörter im syrischen Text der Oden Salomos.” PP. 285-302
Dr. Dana Miller (Harvard University):
“George, bishop of the Arab tribes, on true philosophy.” PP. 303-320
Dr. Robert Murray (London University):
“‘It was springtime’: the source of Jerome's rendering of a phrase in Genesis 35:16 and 48:7.” PP. 321-328
Dr. Kathleen McVey (Princeton University):
“The sogitha on the Church of Edessa in the context of other early Greek and Syriac Hymns for the consecration of Church buildings.” PP. 329-370
Dr. Andrew Palmer (University of London):
“A lyre without a voice': the poetics and the politics of Ephrem the Syrian.” PP. 371-399
Dr. Martin G. F. Parmentier (Hilversum-Holland):
“Pseudo-Gregory of Nyssa's homily on poverty.” PP. 401-426
Prof. Paul-Hubert Poirier (Université Laval-Québec):
“’Аπουσία. Note sur un mot des Actes de Thomas.” PP. 427-435
Dr. Gerrit D. Reinink (Rijks University-Leiden):
“Pseudo-Ephraems `Rede über das Ende' und die Syrische eschatologische Literatur des siebenten Jahrhunderts.” PP. 437-463
Dr. Frédéric Rilliet (Université de Génève):
“Une victime du tournant des études syriaques à la fin du XIXe siècle. Rétrospective sur Jaques de Saroug dans la science occidentale.” PP. 465-480
Dr. Alison Salvesen (University of Oxford):
“Spirits in Jacob's revision of Samuel.” PP. 481-490
Prof. Irfan Shahîd (Georgetown University):
“The restoration of the Ghassanid Dynasty, AD 587: Dionysius of Tellmahre.” PP. 491-503
Dr. Robert Taft (Oriental Institute-Rome):
“Some structural problems in the Syriac Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles I.” PP. 505-520
Dr. Martin Tamcke (Phillips University-Germany):
“Die Konfessionsfrage bei den lutherischen Nestorianen.” PP. 521-536
Prof. Michel van Esbroeck (University of Munich):
“Les versions syriaques du panégyrique de Grégoire le Thaumaturge.” PP. 537-553
Prof. Lucas van Rompay (Rijks University-Leiden):
“Memories of paradise. The Greek ‘Life of Adam and Eve’ and early Syriac tradition.” PP. 555-570
Dr. Jacob Vellian (St Ephrem Institute-India):
“The early Syriac manuscripts of the Qurbana of Malabar.” PP. 571-578
Dr. John W. Watt (University of Wales):
“The Syriac reception of Platonic and Aristotelian rhetoric.” PP. 579-601
Prof. Gabriele Winkler (University of Tübingen):
“Neue Überlegungen zur Entstehung des Epiphaniefests.” PP. 603-633
Dr. Witold Witakowsi (University of Uppsala):
“The division of the Earth between the descendants of Noah in Syriac tradition.” PP. 635-656
Dr. Ugo Zanetti (Université de Louvain):
“Projet d'une Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca.” PP. 657-670
ARAM Newsletter. PP. 671-687
Proceedings of the ARAM Fourth International Conference:
Cultural Interchange during the Umayyad Era in Bilad al-Sham
(University of Oxford)
Prof. Irfan Shahîd (Georgetown University):
“The Umayyad ajnad: Byzance après Byzance.” PP. 1-11
Dr. Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago):
“Amsar in Syria? Syrian in cities after the conquest” PP. 13-33
Prof. Daniel Sahas (University of Waterloo):
“Cultural interaction during the Umayyad period: the ‘circle’ of John of Damascus.” PP. 35-66
Prof. Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney):
“Change and continuity in early Islamic Damascus.” PP. 67-102
Prof. Han Drijvers (University of Groningen):
“The Testament of our Lord: Jacob of Edessa's response to Islam.” PP. 104-114
Prof. Sidney Griffith (Catholic University of America):
“Michael, the martyr and monk of Mar Sabas monastery, at the court of Caliph 'Abd al-Malik: Christian apologetics and martyrdom in the early Islamic period.” PP. 115-148
Dr. Monica Blanchard (Catholic University of America):
“The Georgian version of the martyrdom of St Michael, monk of Mar Sabas monastery.” PP. 149-163
Mr. Robert Hoyland (University of Oxford):
“The correspondence between Leo III (717-741) and 'Umar II (717-720).” PP. 165-177
Dr. Elizabeth Savage (London):
“Iraqi christian links with an early Islamic sect.” PP. 179-192
Dr. Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge University):
“The pre-Islamic background of Muslim legal formularies.” PP. 193-224
Dr. Lawrence Conrad (Wellcome Institute):
“Did al’ Walid I found the first Muslim hospital?” PP. 225-244
Dr. Claus-Peter Haase (Kiel University):
“Is Madinat al-Far - in the Balikh region of northern Syria - an Umayyad foundation?” PP. 245-257
Dr. Michael Fuller (St Louis Community College-USA):
“Continuity and cultural interchange at Tell Tuneinir, Syria.” PP. 259-277
Dr. Pau Figueras (Ben-Gurion University):
“The impact of the Islamic conquest on the Christian communities of the South Palestine.” PP. 279-293
Dr. Steven A Rosen (Ben-Gurion University):
“The nomadic periphery: archaeology of pastoralists in the south central Negev during Late Antiquity.” PP. 295-309
Dr. Pamela Watson (British Institute of Archeology-Amman):
“Pictorial painting on pottery and its demise in the mid-7th century AD: the case of the Jerash bowls.” PP. 311-332
Prof. Zeidoun al-Muheisen & Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University):
“La période omeyyade dans le nord de la Jordanie: continuité et rupture.” PP. 333-341
Mr. Claude Vibert-Guigue (IFAPO-Amman):
“Le projet franco-jordanien de relevé des peintures de Quseir `Amra.” PP. 343-358
Dr. W. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary-USA):
“The Christian church of Abila of the Decapolis and the Yarmouk Valley System in the Umayyad period.” PP. 359-379
Dr. Michael Bates (The American Numismatic Society):
“Byzantine coinage and its imitations, Byzantine coinage and its imitations: Arab-Byzantine coinage.” PP. 381-403
Mr. W. Andrew Oddy (British Museum):
“The early Umayyad coinage of Baisan and Jerash.” PP. 405-418
Miscellaneous:
Prof. Abraham Negev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
“Khaznet Fira'un at Petra - Iconoclasm Nabataean. style.” PP. 419-448
Dr. Sebastian P. Brock (Oxford University):
“Professor André de Halleux's contributions to Syriac studies.” PP. 449-456
ARAM Newsletter. PP. 457-462
Contents of Volume 7, Number 1, 1995
Proceedings of the ARAM Fifth International Conference:
(Oxford University)
Under the Patronage of H.E. Dr. Najah Al-Attar, the Syrian Minister of Culture.
Dr. Najah Al-Attar (The Syrian Minister of Culture):
&