Semitica et Classica (2026)

Éditorial

Résumés

Articles
Banquets at the Minoan peak sanctuary of Vrysinas (Iris Tzachili)
The language of Ugaritic poetry and prose between chronology, dialects, and style (Tania Notarius)
An unknown fragment of the Syriac Book of medicines: towards a reassessment of the treatise (Grigory Kessel)

Gods in a material world (edited by Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, Corinne Bonnet & Bruno D’Andrea)
Gods in a material world: introduction (Corinne Bonnet & Bruno D’Andrea)
Onomastique divine et disposition des textes inscrits dans le monde grec : quelques cas d’étude (Sylvain Lebreton, Enrique Nieto Izquierdo & Alaya Palamidis)
More than “divine syntax”: semantics, palaeography and display in polyonymous religious inscriptions (Lorena Pérez Yarza)
Materiality and urban inter-artefactual domains in the religious epigraphy of Baetica: the cases of Munigua and Italica (José Carlos López-Gómez)
Memoria publica : les pratiques documentaires des espaces sacrés dans la Méditerranée orientale hellénistique et romaine (Giuseppina Marano)
Apollon Temenitēs, Zeus Bōmos, et les autres : nommer les dieux d’après des espaces et des objets cultuels (Beatriz Pañeda Murcia)
Innovation in human-divine communication in Crete and Cyrene: portable altars, inscribed braziers and a glocalised goddess (Pablo Rodríguez Valdés)
Les dieux par les objets : une grammaire matérielle de la présence divine dans le monde romain (Ginevra Benedetti)
The gods as part of the natural world in the Orphic hymns (Alberto Bernabé)

Shifting perspectives on otherness: representations (and uses) of enemies from the Hellenistic period to late antiquity (edited by Gianmarco Chiari & Gaetano Spampinato)
Representing and using the enemy: an introduction (Gianmarco Chiari & Gaetano Spampinato)
The perception of foreign regality in Dn^OG and the inclusion of “Bel and the Dragon” through a re-examination of 967 (Margherita Pepoli)
“Rogues in the house”: barbarians on the borders and the Graeco-Bactrian kingship at stake (Alessandro Magnani)
The diseases of the community: medical metaphors and political order in the Alexandrian conflict of 38 CE (Francesco Reali)
The enduring resignification of Haman: an archetype of the enemy in ancient Jewish communities (Maureen Attali)
Struck by their own weapons: the role of the “enemy” Porphyry in Christian apologetic texts (Bettina Reese)
Shaping the “enemies of God” in the age of Constantine: Eusebius of Caesarea, paganism and the concept of θεομαχία (Gianmarco Chiari)
Historical and topographical notes on Marius Victorinus’ use of paganus (Gianmarco Grantaliano)
Are some enemies better than others? The use of the pagans in Epiphanius of Salamis’ anti-heretical discourse (Gaetano Spampinato)

Varia
Contribution au corpus des inscriptions expiatoires minéennes : deux textes remarquables du Musée national de Ṣanʿāʾ (Alessio Agostini & Iwona Gajda)
Notes d’épigraphie et de philologie phéniciennes. 4 (Stevens Bernardin, Françoise Briquel Chatonnet, Jimmy Daccache & Robert Hawley)
Syntagmatic contamination in Biblical Hebrew (Jan Joosten)
A diachronic perspective on the syntax and meaning of טֶרֶם and בְּטֶרֶם in light of the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls, Targumic Aramaic, and the Septuagint (Vladimir Olivero)
שֶׁלֹּא šello as a calque of Greek μή in Mishnaic Hebrew: from subordination to pseudo-subordination (Cyril Aslanov)
Nabataean hprkʾ: which Greek term does it reflect? (Steven M. Moors)
A retreat to the desert of Zoora in Palaestina Tertia (Younis Al-Shdaifat, Julien Aliquot & Mohammad Alsarairah)

Comptes rendus

Hommages
Monique Alexandre (1932-2026) (Olivier Munnich)
Takamitsu Muraoka (1938-2026) (Cécile Dogniez)