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Contents: Anne Boud'hors : « Chercher » dans les textes coptes : à propos d'une variation lexicale - Federico Corriente: Some notes on the Qur'anic lisanun mubin and its loanwords - John F. Elwolde: Sirach 51:15a (19b-20a): Towards a text-critical and lexicographical solution - Frank Feder: 'Facing the sacred Coptic text': the pre-Coptic Egyptians as lexicographers - Gregor Geiger: «Abraham, mein Freund» (Jes 41,8): Wer ist wessen Freund? - Nader Al Jallad: The semantic concept of 'shame' in the Holy Qur'an - Francisco Jiménez Bedman: Semantic quality in Qumran: on the vocabulary of 3Q15 - Jan Joosten: The Graeco-Semitic vocabulary of the New Testament: A plea for a new research tool - Julia G. Krivoruchko: Greek s mi between Josephus and the Constantinople Pentateuch - Giovanni Lenzi: The Johannine origin of the Syriac usage of the term «life» for «salvation» - José Martinez Delgado: From Bible to lexicography through the masora on al-Andalus: the use of the Sefer 'okla w -'okla among the first Andalusi Hebrew philologists - Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala: Sacred readings, lexicographic soundings: cosmology, men, asses and gods in the Semitic Orient - Gordon Nickel: Language of Love in Qur'an and Gospel - Massimo Pazzini/Rosario Pierri: The middle voice in Exodus-LXX - Helen Spurling: The Biblical Symbol of Edom in Jewish Eschatological and Apocalyptic Imagery - Sofía Torallas Tovar: Translation and beliefs: interferences in a debated passage of the OT (I Sam. 28) in Sahidic and the use of Greek Loan Words in the Coptic Bible - Ángel Urbán: Emphatic use of the adverb oukéti in the New Testament.

The Editors: Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (Ph.D., University of Granada) and Ángel Urbán (Ph.D., Complutense University, Madrid) are respectively Professors of Arabic and Greek in the University of Córdoba.