All those nations -- : cultural encounters within and with the Near East : studies presented to Hans Drijvers at the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday by colleagues and students / collected and edited by H.L.J. Vanstiphout with the assistance of W.J. van Bekkum, G.J. van Gelder and G.J. Reinink.

Includes bibliographical references.

Reconstruction of Yiddish colloquial in Winschoten / Wout Jac. van Bekkum -- The delusion of identification : the term Madhhab in Arabic grammatical tradition / Monique Bernards -- Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus in Christian East Syria / Jan N. Bremmer -- The Syriac Julian romance / Jan Willem Drijvers -- An Arabic version of John Chrysostom's commentary on Genesis / Adriana Drint -- DIYAF: for camels, swords, and Nabataeans. A Nabataean centre in Arabic sources / Geert Jan van Gelder -- Persuasion and persecution : establishing church unity in the sixth century / Jan van Ginkel -- A substratum as a cultured weapon / Karel Jongeling -- 6 Ezra 15, 28-33 and the historical events in the middle of the third century / A.F.J. Klijn -- As if from another world. Narsai's Memra "Bad is the time" / Corrie Molenberg -- Numbers 27,21 : the priestly oracle urim and tummim and the history of reception / Ed Noort -- An early Syriac reference to Qur'ān 112? / Gerrit J. Reinink -- A new textual witness of the dialogue poem "The cherub and the repentant thief' in the University Library, Groningen / Gerrit J. Reinink -- Jewish-Christian debate in a Muslim context : Ibn Al-Mahrūmas notes to Ibn Kammūna's Examination of the inquiries into the three faiths / Barbara Roggema -- The twin tongues. Theory, technique, and practice of bilingualism in ancient Mesopotamia / Herman L.J. Vanstiphout -- Reading the signs / Niek Veldhuis.