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  1. Translating the biblical key word ḥeseḏ into Arabic and Japanese: A theological and comparative semantic study

    Article • Russian Journal of Linguistics, October 2025, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  2. To What Extent Do Christians Understand the Hymns They Sing? A Linguistic and Theological Analysis of Four Maronite Hymns

    Article • Studia Liturgica, September 2025, SAGE Publications

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  3. The Biblical Key Word ḇêraḵ : What Does it Mean and How it Can Be Rendered in English, Arabic and Japanese?

    Article • Biblical Theology Bulletin Journal of Bible and Culture, August 2025, SAGE Publications

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  4. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) in the Service of Theology: Worship Resources for 14 September

    Article • The Expository Times, August 2025, SAGE Publications

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  5. Review of Carsten Levisen. 2024. Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in a Multipolar World. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter

    Article • Russian Journal of Linguistics, June 2025, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  6. 13 th July: 5 th Sunday after Pentecost

    Article • The Expository Times, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  7. The Biblical Key Word ḥeseḏ: What Exactly Does It Mean?

    Article • Cognitive Semantics, January 2025, De Gruyter

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  8. Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), January 2025, John Benjamins

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  9. Euphemisms for Japanese shinu 死ぬ ‘die’: Linguacultural, semantic, and pragmatic perspectives

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  10. The Days After the Funeral: An Ethnolinguistic Analysis of Christian Post-Funeral Death Practices in Jish (Northern Israel)

    Article • OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, October 2024, SAGE Publications

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  11. Alla yustur

    Article • August 2024, John Benjamins

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  12. Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, March 2024, John Benjamins

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  13. Tense-aspect constructions in Jish Arabic: Morphological, syntactic, and semantic features

    Article • Russian Journal of Linguistics, June 2023, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  14. On the verge of extinction: the semantics, pragmatics, and etymology of eight endangered similes in Jish Arabic

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, August 2022, De Gruyter

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  15. The Ethnopragmatics of Jish Arabic-speaking culture

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, March 2022, John Benjamins

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  16. The Life of Jesus in the Eucharist: Christological Aspects of the Maronite Mass

    Article • Antiphon A Journal for Liturgical Renewal, January 2020, Project Muse

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  17. Heaven and Hell Are Here! The Non-religious Meanings of English Heaven and Hell and Their Arabic and Hebrew Counterparts

    Article • October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  18. The meanings of ‘angel’ in English, Arabic, and Hebrew

    Article • June 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  19. Dying for a Cause Other Than God: Exploring the Non-religious Meanings ofMartyrandShahīd

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  20. Dying in the Cause of God: The Semantics of the Christian and Muslim Concepts ofMartyr

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  21. Who Converts Whom? A Narrative-Critical Exegesis of the Book of Jonah

    Article • Biblical Theology Bulletin Journal of Bible and Culture, May 2014, SAGE Publications

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  22. Ghosts,Fairies,Elves, andNymphs: Towards a Semantic Template for Non-Human Being Concepts

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib

  23. The systematization and typology of the instant messaging writing system used by young Israeli Arabs

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, October 2008, John Benjamins

    Rev Dr Sandy Habib, Dennis Kurzon