Author : Ignace Jay Gelb
Publisher : Oriental Institute Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
'Computer aided' is somewhat daunting in books dating from 1980 but the underlying purpose of this book, to provide linguistically ordered lists of 6,662 proper names excerpted from Sumerian and Akkadian texts, remains useful since most of our knowledge of the non-Akkadian Semitic dialect comes from these names.
Author : Mary E. Buck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9004415114
In The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit Mary Buck pursues a nuanced view of populations in the Bronze Age Levant, with the objective of understanding the ancient polity of Ugarit as a kin-based culture that shares close ties with neighbouring Amorite populations.
Author : Choon Leong Seow
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 900436952X
Author : Edward Lipiński
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789068316100
A large number of Aramaic inscriptions from the 9th century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. are revisited in this fourth volume of Studies. After the stele of Tel Dan, the epitaph of Kuttamuwa from Zincirli, and the inscription found at Tepe Qalaichi, Aramaic dockets from Dur-Katlimmu are re-examined, distinguishing a court ruling concerning theft, agreements regarding mortgage, guarantee, indemnity, barley and silver loans, and the particular nsk-loan. Next are examined "cadastral" reports from Idumaea, some inscriptions from Hellenistic times, a divorce bill from the Roman period, several Palmyrene dedications, epitaphs, and honorific inscriptions, as well as some Hatraean texts, mainly related to Adiabene. Finally, Mercionism is considered as background of a saying on "two gods," ascribed to Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba. Like in the preceding volumes of Studies, detailed indexes list the inscriptions, the personal names and the place-names examined, as well as other subjects.
Author : Karel van der Toorn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300243510
Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity
Author : Anson F. Rainey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 900429399X
This four-volume reference work deals with the language of the Amarna letters written by scribes who had adopted a peculiar dialect mixture of Accadian and West Semitic syntax. In addition to the texts from Canaan, a few from Alashia are included along with the texts from Kamed el-Loz and Taanach. Each of the first three volumes is written as a separate monograph; together they treat the problems of morphology and syntax. The first volume covers writing, pronouns and nouns (substantives, adjectives and numerals); the second volume treats the verbal system; and the third volume discusses particles and adverbs with a chapter on word order. The fourth volume includes the bibliography and index to the set. Since these texts are the earliest witness to West Semitic syntax, they are an invaluable source for the historical study of the North West Semitic family, including biblical Hebrew.
Author : Lionel Marti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1575068885
In July, 2009, the International Association for Assyriology met in Paris, France, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme “La famille dans le Proche-Orient.” This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains 53 of the papers read at the 55th annual Rencontre, including primarily papers directly connected with the theme and some on areas of related interest. The papers covered every period of Mesopotamian history, from the third millennium through the end of the first millennium B.C.E. The photo on the back cover shows only a representative portion of the attendees, who were warmly hosted by faculty and students from the Collège de France.
Author : Scott C. Layton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004369562
Author : Edward Lipiński
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042908598
In order to present the Aramean history during some six hundred years, down to the seventh century B.C., it was necessary to analyze a wide range of sources, mainly cuneiform, epigraphic, and biblical. Chapter I deals with Aramean pre-history and proto-history, while chapter II examines the question of the alleged relationship between the Hebrew forefathers and the ancient Arameans. Chapters III to XIV give a relatively accurate description of the territory of each historically attested Aramean group or state and present a detailed narrative of political events. Chapter XIV, the most extensive, considers the situation of the Arameans in Babylonia, also in relation to the Chaldeans and to the North-Arabian tribes. Chapters XV to XVIII deal with Aramean institutions, economy, legal practices, and religion. Special attention is paid to linguistic features of the available evidence, when they can help resolving historical questions. The book concludes with an extensive general index and with an index of biblical sources.
Author : Edward Lipiński
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789042908154
The first comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, by H. Zimmern, was published a hundred years ago and the last original work of this kind was issued in Russian in 1972 by B.M. Grande. The present grammar, designed to come out in the centenary of the completion of Zimmern's work, fills thus a gap. Besides, it is based on both classical and modern Semitic languages, it takes new material of these last decades into account, and situates the Semitic languages in the wider context of Afro-Asiatic. The introduction briefly presents the languages in question. The main parts of the work are devoted to phonology, morphology, and syntax, with elaborate charts and diagrams. Then follows a discussion of fundamental questions related to lexicographical analysis. The study is supplemented by a glossary of linguistic terms used in Semitics, by a selective bibliography, by a general index, and by an index of words and forms. The book is the result of twenty-five years of research and teaching in comparative Semitic grammar.
