The name BABELAO means « Bulletin of the Abelao », more precisely « Bulletin de l’Académie Belge pour l’Etude des Langues Anciennes et Orientales » (Bulletin of the Belgian Academy for the Study of Ancient and Oriental Languages). ABELAO is a non-profit organization which seeks to promote teaching and research in the various fields of ancient and oriental culture and languages, especially by means of summer-courses on the campus of the University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

Its Bulletin, BABELAO, is conceived as a scholarly journal. It covers the various fields of oriental studies : philology, palaeography, history of the ancient and oriental world, language history, comparative literature, edition of texts, etc. Its Editorial Board, the members of which are recruited internationally, brings together scholars who are able to provide expertise in all the required fields. The members are: Alessandro Bausi (Hamburg), Anne Boud'hors (Paris), Antoine Cavigneaux (Geneva), Sabino Chialà (Bose), Bernard Coulie (Louvain-la-Neuve), Alain Delattre (Brussels), Didier Devauchelle (Lille), Johannes Den Heijer (Louvain-la-Neuve), Jean-Charles Ducène (Brussels), J.Keith Elliott (Leeds), Jean-Daniel Macchi (Geneva), Michael Marx (Berlin), Claude Obsomer (Louvain-la-Neuve), Agnès Ouzounian (Paris), Tamara Pataridzé (Louvain-la-Neuve), Paul-Hubert Poirier (Québec), Véronique Somers (Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve), David Taylor (Oxford) and Anton Vojtenko (Moscow). 

BABELAO 5 (2016)

C. De Maré, Ci-gît Osiris, l’Abaton de Biggeh d'après les sources textuelles et iconographiques (p. 1-46)
J. Daccache, Guerres et discours sur la guerre dans la propagande royale: le monde ouest-sémitique au Ier millénaire av. J.-C (p. 47-75)
T. Do, Scribal Activities in 1 John 2-29a (p. 77-104)
P. Maraval, L'édit de Milan entre tradition et renouveau (p. 105-116)
J.-L. Simonet, Le livre des Actes dans la Bible éthiopienne. A propos d'un livre récent (p. 117-125)
M.T. Ortega-Monasterio, Sephardic Hebrew Bibles of the Kennicott Collection (p. 127-168)
R.J. Wilkinson, Constructing Syriac in Latin-Establishing the Identity of Syriac in the West over a Century an a Half (c. 1550-c. 1700). An account of Grammatical an Extra-Linguistic Determinants (p. 169-283)
A. Geva-Kleinberger, Wedding songs in the dialect of the Jews of Ḥabbān in eastern Yemen (p. 285-300)
Y. Dror, Collective Nouns in Journalistic Arabic (p. 301-329)

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