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A companion to ancient Near Eastern languages / edited by Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Extinct languages--Middle East.
- Extinct languages.
- Extinct languages--Iraq.
- Extinct languages--Egypt.
- Extinct languages--Aksum (Kingdom).
- Language and languages.
- History.
- Iraq--Languages.
- Iraq.
- Egypt--Languages.
- Egypt.
- Aksum (Kingdom)--Languages.
- Aksum (Kingdom).
- Middle East--Languages--History.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken : Wiley, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Part I: Writing systems: 1. The Decipherment of Ancient Near Eastern Languages / Peter T. Daniels
- 2. The Emergence of Cuneiform Writing / Christopher Woods
- 3. The Development of Egyptian Writing in the fourth and early third millennium BCE / Ludwig Morenz
- 4. The Emergence of Alphabetic Scripts / Christopher Rollston
- Part II: Ancient Near Eastern Languages: 5. Sumerian / Piotr Michalowski
- 6. Egyptian / Matthias Müller
- 7. Akkadian / Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
- 8. Eblaite / Amalia Catagnoti
- 9. Elamite / Jan Tavernier
- 10. Amorite / Viktor Golinets
- 11. Hurrian / Dennis R.M. Campbell
- 12. Hittite / Ilya Yakubovich
- 13. Luwian / Craig Melchert
- 14. Ugaritic / Robert Hawley
- 15. Pre- and Post-Exilic Hebrew / Seth Sanders
- 16. Phoenician / Françoise Briquel Chatonnet
- 17. Old and Imperial Aramaic / Christian Stadel
- 18. Ancient South Arabian / Peter Stein
- Part III: Ancient Near Eastern Languages used as administrative languages or linguae francae: 19. Akkadian as a Lingua Franca / Juan-Pablo Vita
- 20. Aramaic as Lingua Franca / Margaretha Folmer
- Part IV: Language Contact in the Ancient Near East: 21. Sumerian and Akkadian Language Contact / C. Jay Crisostomo
- 22. Language contact of Ancient Egyptian with Semitic and other Near Eastern Languages / Thomas Schneider
- 23. Hebrew and Aramaic in Contact / Aaron Koller
- 24. Multilingualism and Diglossia in the Ancient Near East / Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
- Part V: The development of literary languages and literary contact: 25. Standard Babylonian / Christian W. Hess
- 26. Standardization in Egyptian / Antonio Loprieno
- 27. The "Influence" of Sumerian on Hittite Literature / Mark Weeden
- 28. Ancient Near Eastern Literary Influences on Hebrew Literature and the Hebrew Bible / Michael Wingert
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 31, 2020).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: A companion to ancient Near Eastern languages.
- ISBN:
- 9781119193807
- 111919380X
- 9781119193814
- 1119193818
- 9781119193890
- 1119193893
- Publisher Number:
- 99988680531
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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