"Through Thy Word All Things Were Made!" 2. International Conference of Mandaic and Samaritan Studies: [Review]

When still a graduate student, this reviewer gave a presentation on some intricacies of Samaritan Aramaic phonology at a University of Heidelberg research seminar. The late Professor Klaus Beyer, Nestor of Aramaic Studies in Germany, was present and—amicable as
always—shared some of his thoughts on the late Prof. Rudolf Macuch, whose name had naturally come up a number of times throughout the talk: “I always wondered,” said Beyer, “why Macuch chose to concentrate his scientific efforts on two areas so wide apart
as Mandaic and Samaritan languages.