Yehuda D. Nevo

Yehuda D. Nevo (* 1932, † February 12, 1992 ) was a member of the Negev Archaelogical Project: Early Arab Period. The Rural Settlement in the Negev in the 6th - 8th centuries AD, led by the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.

He and his research group discovered in 1981 in the Negev Desert in Israel, near Sede Boqer several hundred rock inscriptions in Arabic, written in primitive Kufic script. The first results of that project has Yehuda Nevo on the 3rd International Colloquium: From Jahiliyya to Islam ( 30 June-6 July 1985) argued: Yehuda D. Nevo: Sde Boqer and the Central Negev. 7th- 8th Century AD. The work is published as special edition of the Symposium. His other interpretations of the findings in Sede Boqer he then published in his article Towards a Prehistory of Islam (1994).

Additional results have been published with Zemira Cohen and Dalia Heftman in Ancient Arabic inscriptions from the Negev. The published findings from 1981-1982 and 1986-1988 were the basis for verifying the origins of Islam and the early Islamic history again.

The book Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State, which he wrote with Judith Koren, presents a theory of the origins and development of the Islamic state and the Islamic religion.

Some of his work he also published in the book The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, edited by Ibn Warraq.

In the book The dark beginnings, edited by Karl -Heinz Ohlig, the approaches of Nevo be continued

Criticism of Nevos research

The German Orientalist Werner Diem showed in a review of the book Ancient Arabic inscriptions from the Negev to various errors in the transcription and criticized the translation of single words; he is of the opinion that, " in spite of Certain philological short comings the volume is a substantial contribution to the field of early Arabic epigraphy with important new material Concerning paleography, orthography and language ". At the same time Diem points out that some verses of the Koran were not detected in the inscriptions as those obtained in a total concordance ought to summarize, because: "If all the Qur ʾ anic quotations and references had been Identified by the editors and collected in a concordance, Nevo 's judgment about the number of Qur ʾ anic expressions in the inscriptions would probably have been different. "

Works

  • Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State, Yehuda D. Nevo and Judith Koren, Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2003, ISBN 1-59102-083-2
  • Ancient Arabic inscriptions from the Negev, edited by Yehuda D. Nevo, Zemira Cohen, Dalia Heftman, IPS, Negev, Israel, 1993, ISBN 965-435-001-7
  • Pagans and herders: a re -examination of the Negev runoff cultivation systems in the Byzantine and early Arab periods, Yehuda D. Nevo, IPS, Negev, Israel, 1991, ISBN 965-435-000-9
  • Towards a Prehistory of Islam. In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. 17 (1994), 108-141
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