Lipinski E. Semitic languages

Adiego I.J. The Carian Language. - BRILL, 2006. - 541 p. This handbook provides a complete and updated view of our current knowledge about Carian, one of the Indo-European languages spoken in ancient Anatolia. The decipherment of the Carian alphabet has only recently made it possible to analyze Carian inscriptions and to classify the Carian language linguistically. The book covers all major topics of research on Carian: the direct and indirect s...

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...

Ugarit-Verlag, 2008. - 549 p. I. K. H. Halayqa investigates lexical correspondences of Ugaritic and Canaanite: "Ugaritic was a spoken and written language in an area adjacent to various Canaanite dialects, such as the language of the El-Amarna letters from the city states in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine and Phoenician in Lebanon. Ugaritic was still a spoken language in the El-Amarna period, to which Old Canaanite belongs. Therefore the generic r...

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....

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...

M?nchen, Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 1997. - 75 p. Hittite belongs to the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, which has become extinct in the first half of the first millenium b.C. Among the Anatolian languages Hittite is the best attested; for our knowledge of it we can relay on several thousands of clay tables, dating back to about 1750 b.C. - 1150 b.C. One of the biggest matters of interest concerning Hittite lies in its diff...

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...

Sivan D. A grammar of the Ugaritic language. Leiden, 2001. - xxii + 330 p. Ugaritic, discovered in 1929, is a North-West Semitic language, documented on clay tablets (about 1250 texts) and dated from the period between the 14th and the 12th centuries B.C.E. The documents are of various types: literary, administrative, lexicological. Numerous Ugaritic tablets contain portions of a poetic cycle pertaining to the Ugaritic pantheon. Another part, the...