Die »Beihefte zum Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry« ergänzen und unterstützen die LCAAJ-Publikationen theoretisch, methodologisch und materialiter. Die Beihefte präsentieren und analysieren jiddische Sprachdokumente unter linguistischen, kultur- und zeitgeschichtlichen Aspekten. Die Reihe gibt Studierenden einen Einblick in den Facettenreichtum des Jiddischen und stellt den Bezug zur internationalen Jiddistik her. Sie zeigt die Verflochtenheit der Jiddistik mit den benachbarten Disziplinen und bietet Material und Anregung nicht nur für Jiddisten, sondern auch für Germanisten, Slawisten, Religionswissenschaftler und Historiker.

The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues in synchrony and diachrony, theoretically or empirically oriented.

The first article in this volume presents 17 bronzes that came to light among the ruins of an enwalled settlement atop the Jabal al-‘Awd, a nearly 3000-meter high mountain located some 50 km east of Ibb. The figural bronzes encompass Egyptian or Greek-Roman kinds, but also those obviously produced in South Arabia that display the influence of works from the Mediterranean sphere. Residences of rulers and palaces are a well-known occurrence among ancient civilizations. This applies to ancient South Arabia as well, whence a number of such complexes are found, for example, the palace of Gumdan in Sana’a. The description of Gumdan, as documented by al-Hamdani for instance, shows great similarity with the rock paintings at Djarf al-Yahudi, a basolt promontory located ca. 50 km east of Sana’a. The second contribution in this tome provides a description of these rock paintings and compares them with the documentation made by al-Hamdani.

The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.