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A companion to ancient Near Eastern languages /

"The current volume serves as an introduction to a representative sample of Ancient Near Eastern languages and language families attested during the time period of roughly 3200 BCE to the second century CE. This time-frame reflects the time from the beginning of writing (around 3200 BCE) to the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hasselbach-Andee, Rebecca (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Wiley, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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