Böcker i Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement-serien

A collection of essays written in honour of Professor G. Rex Smith, arabist, historian, and scholar of the medieval history of the Yemen, on aspects of the pre-Islamic and Islamic history of Arabia and the Yemen written by a group of international scholars.

This is the first English translation of the work of fourth-century theologian, Ephrem the Syrian, on the Diatessaron-a text woven from the four Gospels, which predates the earliest-known evidence of the official Syriac translation of the New Testament.

A major source for the medieval economic and social history of the Yemen in particular and of the Middle East in general. Of relevance to European medieval economic history.