Apologia for 'the Sabaean cultural-political area
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2803084 |
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| Authors | Andrey Korotayev (0000-0003-3014-2037, Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 469-474 |
| Publication date | 1994-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x00008879 |
| OpenAlex | W1995285382 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Firstly, I accept Beeston's proposal to refer 'to linguistic data as Minaic, Sabaic, Qatabanic and Hadramitic, leaving Minaean etc. for non-linguistic contexts' (Beeston, 1987a: 13). His argument (at least with respect to the distinction between the 'Sabaean' and the 'Sabaic') looks entirely convincing:The Sabaeans were the inhabitants of the area around Ma'rib. But they shared a common language(no doubt with dialectal varieties) with the peoples of the desert fringes between Ma'rib and Wadial-Jawf, of a considerable part of Wadi al-Jawf itself, and of the high plateaux lying in the angle of those two areas-Arḥab, Qā' al-Bawn, Qā' Ṣany'ā' etc. It is dubious whether these other peoples would have called themselves Sabaeans,1 and it might be preferable therefore to term the language Sabaic rather than Sabaean' (Beeston, 1979: 115
Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis) · Epistemology · Geography · Linguistics · Lying · Physics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Term (time) · Wadi · African history and culture analysis · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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