Shaked, Sh., Ford, J. and Bhayro, S., Aramaic Bowl Spells: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls, Vol 1: [Review]

Northwest-Semitic epigraphy is a strange discipline. Inscriptions—especially those from biblical times, which have always been at the center of the scholarly debate—are relatively few in number, of a new text sparks a significant number of studies dedicated to specific points of its paleography and language, and after a few years the bibliographical items dealing with the text easily outnumber the words it comprises. This situation changes, however, as one moves to the periphery of the field, to those corners of Northwest-Semitic epigraphy that are removed in time and space from the Land of Israel and the biblical period. The many Late and Latino-Punic inscriptions from northern Africa, for example, are only recently beginning to receive the amount of scholarly attention they deserve. [from the review]