🧑‍🔬 Wilfred G.E. Watson

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Newcastle UniversityNewcastle upon Tyne · United Kingdom1984–2008 · 16 papers🎓University of Newcastle AustraliaNewcastle · Australia2006 · 2 papers🎓University of MünsterMünster · Germany1976–1977 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

🧭 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📅 Works by year

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. The Meaning of Phoenician ḥsp in the Aḥirom Inscription (2019 · 1 citation)
   The Aḥirom sarcophagus inscription (KAI 1) contains a curse, tḥtsp ḥṭr mšpṭh, built around the verb ḥsp. Scholars disagree on where this verb comes from and what it means. Dictionaries offer "break", "strip", "peel", "be removed" and "become defoliated". Watson works in two stages. First, he compares closely matching…
2. Alma Brodersen, The End of the Psalter. Psalms 146–150 in the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fürdie alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 505; Berlin: De Gruyter 2017). ISBN 978-3-11-053476-4 (2018)
   This is Wilfred G.E. Watson's short review, in Folia Orientalia vol. 55, of Alma Brodersen's monograph on the closing five psalms of the Hebrew Bible. The book asks whether Psalms 146–150 were composed as one connected unit or began as independent poems. To settle the question, Brodersen looks at every psalm as it is…
3. Terms for Occupations, Professions and Social Classes in Ugaritic: An Etymological Study (2018)
   Ugaritic has many attested words for jobs, ranks and social groups, but no previous study covered all of them in the alphabetic texts.
4. From Hair to Heel: Ugaritic Terms for Parts of the Body (2015)
   Watson compiles a full inventory of the anatomical vocabulary found in Ugaritic alphabetic texts. Earlier surveys left gaps, and SED I omitted many items, probably because they are not Common Semitic. Human body parts are listed first, arranged from head to foot, which is the traditional ordering also seen in Hebrew…
5. An Assortment of Articles in a Ugaritic Text (2010)
   Watson re-examines a small Ugaritic tablet, KTU 5.23 (RS [Varia 23], AO 21.090). Its provenance is unknown, and an unskilled writer, probably a trainee scribe, cut it roughly. The text is a bare list of nouns with no surrounding sentences, so nothing in it can show what a word means. Only one earlier study exists…

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Folia Orientalia ×5: Folia Orientalia 2019, Folia Orientalia 2018 ×2, Folia Orientalia 2015, Folia Orientalia 2010

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