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VOL. XXI, No. 4. JULY, 1905

THE

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF

SEMITIC LANGUAGES

AND LITERATURES

(CONTINUING "HEBRAICA")

EDITOR

WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER

MANAGING EDITOR

ROBERT FRANCIS HARPER

ASSOCIA TE EDITORS

EMIL GUSTAV HIRSCH IRA MAURICE PRICE

JAMES RICHARD JEWETT JAMES HENRY BREASTED

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THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Continuing HEBRAICA

PUBLISHED QUARTERLY IN THE MONTHS OF JANUARY, APRIL, JULY, AND OCTOBER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

JULY, 1905

I. THE PLURALIS INTENSIVUS IN HEBREW. By Aaron Ember. - - - 195-231

II. THE MISSING PAGES OF AN OLD ARABIc ANTHOLOGY. By Charles C. Torrey. 232-237

III. KING'S STUDIES IN EASTERN HISTORY. I. By W. Muss-Arnolt. - - 238-246

IV. BOOK NOTICES. - - - - - - - - - - - 247-256

Spiegelberg's Aegyptologische Randglossen zum Alten Testament, James Henry Breasted.- Thureau-Dangin's Recueil de tablettes chald6ennes, Ira Maurice Price.-N6ldeke's Compendious Syriac Grammar, Charles C. Torrey.

V. GENERAL INDEX. - -...-

- - - 257,258

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Copyright, 1904, by The University of Chicago.

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