Henkelman, Wouter. F.M. 2022. God is in the Detail: The Divine Determinative and the Expression of Animacy in Elamite with an Appendix on the Achaemenid Calendar. In: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum & Ingo Schrakamp (eds.), Transfer, Adaption und Neukonfiguration von Schrift- und Sprachwissen im Alten Orient (Episteme, 25), 405-477. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Instead of giving an abstract of the above-cited paper, a detailed table of its contents will follow:
1. Introduction
1.1. Of Aryan dictators and Elamite Tape Recorders
1.2. Iranian Elamite
2. Redefining the Divine?
3. Months as Divine or Numinous Beings
4. Semantic Animacy in Middle and Neo-Elamite
4.1. Semantic Animacy Expressed by Determinatives
4.2. Expression of Semantic Animacy by Primary Nominal Suffixes
4.3. Expression of Semantic Animacy by Animate Concord
4.4. Animacy in Elam: An Interim Summary
5. The Months of Achaemenid Pārsa
5.1. Cultural Preferences from Persepolis to the Fahliyān
5.2. Continuity and Change
5.3. The Importance of the Old Iranian Month Names
6. Appendix: the Achaemenid Calendar
6.1. A Multilingual Calendar
6.2. A Calendar for the Empire