Article: The dress of thought.(Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World)(Book Review)

Article: Akkadian Loanwords in Biblical Hewbrew
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...PAUL V. MANKOWSKI, S.J., Akkadian Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew (HSS 47 ... omitted.) Mankowski's new volume on Akkadian loanwords in Biblical Hebrew fills an ... around a body of possible loans from Akkadian into biblical Hebrew, presented in alphabetical ...

Article: Akkadian Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew. (Reviews of Books).
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Akkadian Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew. By PAUL ... deciphered a century and a half ago, Akkadian has provided bountiful new lexical material ... several forms, attested only in Hebrew and Akkadian, or displaying frequent and well-developed ...

Article: West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... PENTIUC, West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar (HSS 49; Winona Lake ... himself published pioneering studies on the Akkadian of Emar, an ancient city in eastern ... mainly with words that are not genuinely Akkadian. In the introduction, Pentiuc gives ...

Article: A grammar of Akkadian
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...JOHN HUEHNERGARD, A Grammar of Akkadian (HSS 45; Atlanta: Scholars, 1997 ... S44.95. The present textbook of Akkadian grew out of almost two decades of the ... from linguistically oriented studies of Akkadian in handling issues like topicalization ...

Article: The old Akkadian royal inscriptions: notes on a new ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  October 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... of the royal inscriptions of the Old Akkadian kings. H. Hirsch's edition (Hirsch ... of the royal inscriptions of the Old Akkadian period. The authors are to be commended ... title is not a designation of the Old Akkadian historical period. While the corpus ...

Article: In the shadow of the muses: a view of Akkadian literature.
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... oral tradition in a heroic society. Akkadian literature, on the other hand, was ... a new anthology devoted to bringing Akkadian literature to a wider public, rightly ... Little known and little appreciated, Akkadian literature has received scant attention ...

Encyclopedia entry: Akkadian
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      554 words ... ... of Ur fell. Thereafter, Akkadian evolved into two dialects ... alphabetic writing system, Akkadian and its later forms, Assyrian ... written in cuneiform . The Akkadians adopted cuneiform c.2500 ... Bibliography: See I. J. Gelb, Old Akkadian Writing and Grammar (2d ed ...