Kaufman S.A. The Akkadian influences on Aramaic

Black J. , George A. , Postgate N. A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian. - Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000. - 473 p. A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian 2nd (corrected) printing / Краткий словарь аккадского языка ISBN: 3-447-04264-8 ISSN: 0179-6356 A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, edited by Jeremy Black, Andrew George, and Nicholas Postgate, with the assistance of Tina Breckwoldt, Graham Cunningham, Marie-Christine Ludwig, Clemens Reichel, Jona...

Caplice R. Introduction to Akkadian. - Roma: Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 2002. - 108 p. ISBN-10 8876535667 ISBN-13 9788876535666 In his interesting and informative Introduction, Caplice explains that Akkadian is one of the great languages of world history that for about 2500 years was the vehicle of one of the dominant cultures of the Ancient Near East. Abundant religious, historical, literary and grammatical records written in this...

Edzard D.O. Sumerian grammar. – Boston_Leiden: Brill, 2003. - 212 p. ISBN 90-04-12608-2 Dietz Edzard's Sumerian Grammar is not a book for an absolute beginner. You will not learn to translate a Sumerian text from this book. There are no vocabulary lists or exercises and there are only two cuneiform characters in the entire book. But that is fine since this book is not aimed at a begining student. Instead, Dr. Edzard has written a book that is...

Huehnergard J. A Grammar of Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies). - Scholars Press, 1997. - 647 p. + Keys ISBN-10: 0788503189 ISBN-13: 978-0788503184 John Huehnergard's 'Grammar of Akkadian' is an excellent book for learning a difficult ancient language. Akkadian is not a language most schools (even most seminaries) offer as part of the curriculum; hence, many people who learn this language do so via self-study -- a key to the exercises is cruc...

Lincom, 2005. - 82 p. During the second millenium BCE, Akkadian served as the lingua franca of the ancient Near East. An extensive body of epistolographic texts written in this language was discovered at Tell el-Amarna, the modern name for the ancient seat of government of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenophis IV (Akhenaton). The majority of the Amarna letters were sent to Egypt by the rulers of Canaanite cities which, at the time, were part of the Egy...

Pages: 256 Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature (2002) Quality: good: pdf This book provides an introduction to the languages that are important for the study of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel. It contains articles on Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Egyptian, Biblical and Epigraphic Hebrew, Post-biblical Hebrew, Hittite, Phoenician, the Northwest Semitic dialects (Ammonite, Edomite, and Moabite), and Ugaritic. The contributors are Peggy L....

Paris: Geuthner, 1995. - 379 p. As its name suggests, Labat's Manuel d'epigraphie akkadienne ("Manual of Akkadian Epigraphy") is designed for readers of Akkadian, rather than other languages written in cuneiform script. Its advantages over Borger's Zeichenlexikon are that it presents all of its information on a sign in a single place, and that it systematically shows the evolution of sign-forms from the late fourth millennium onwards. This is a...

Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. - 520 p. There are few resources for students of the Bible who wish to work with ancient Near Eastern textual materials in the original languages but have only an intermediate level of linguistic aptitude. The field needs something that offers glosses on vocabulary, grammatical notes, basic literary commentary, and comparative suggestions about how the text connects to biblical material. This book provides s...

Pardee D. Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. Atlanta, 2002. - 314 p. The Ugaritic ritual texts provide the only extensive documentary data for Late Bronze cultic practice in the greater Syro-Palestinian region. These texts, in a West-Semitic language that belongs to the same family as Hebrew and Aramaic, reflect the actual practice of a sacrificial cult in the city of Ugarit in the late twelfth–early eleventh centuries B.C.E. Based on new collations of t...

Worthington M. Complete Babylonian. - TY, 2010. - 377 p. Good recent work on Babylonian, which as I am sure all of you know is a late form of Akkadian, especially used since 2000 BC, eg for Hammurabi's code and all the way into the Biblical period. This book features Latin script only (with a lesson or two on cuneiform), very morphology-focused, not enough comparisons with Arabic, Hebrew or Aramaic, but it is friendly and worth while. I'm very...