Bulletin of Nabataean Studies (BNS)

Scholars

Personal informations

• Date of birth: 25-05-1947
• Nationality: British
• Profession: Epigraphist (Semitic inscriptions)
• Academic post: Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.

Other positions

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Membre associé étranger du Laboratoire d’Études Sémitiques Anciennes (ERS 1993) du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Corresponding Fellow of the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome.

Areas of Current Research

• The languages, scripts and inscriptions of ancient Syria, Jordan and Arabia, particularly the Ancient North Arabian (Taymanitic, Dadanitic (or Lihyanite), Thamudic, Hismaic and Safaitic), the Nabataean, and Pre-Islamic Arabic.
• Literacy in the ancient Near East.
• The prehistory of the Arabic language.
• The Rock-art of Syria and Arabia.
• The history of the nomads of Syria and Arabia from the 1st. millennium B.C. to the rise of Islam.
• For a description of M.C.A. Macdonald’s research projects see: www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/members/macdonald

Publications

• For publications related to Nabataean studies go to the bibliographical database of BNS.

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