Anc. Middle East: Languages

Nakanishi: Writing Systems of the World. Paperback

Writing Systems of the World. Paperback
Akira Nakanishi
128 pages, illustrated. Reprinted, 1990

9780804816540

Daniels: The World's Writing Systems. Hardcover

World's Writing Systems. Hardcover
Edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright
xlv, 920 pages. 1996

9780195079937 107a185

Pelt van, Pratico: The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew. Paperback

Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew. Paperback
by Miles V. Van Pelt and Gary D. Pratico
2003

9780310250722 0310250722

Zeller: Der Ursprung der Buchstabenschrift und das Runenalphabet. Paperback

Ursprung der Buchstabenschrift und das Runenalphabet. Mit faksimile-Wiedergabe der ältesten Runenalphabete und Runennamen. Paperback
Otto Zeller
xi, 197 Seiten, illustriert. 1977

3764810963

Gordon: Ugaritic Textbook. In 3 volumes. Paperback

Ugaritic Textbook. In 3 volumes. Paperback. ca. 22x29 cm
Part 1: Grammar: xx, 158 pages. Part 2: Text in Transliteration, Cuneiform Selections: pages 159 - 346, Supplement 31 pages. Part 3: Glossary and Indices, pages 347 - 553
Revised reprint 1998
Price for the complete set

0 egit Gordon

Hebrew, Modern: Teach Yourself Modern Hebrew. Paperback

Teach Yourself Modern Hebrew. Paperback
Shula Gilboa
320 pages. 2004. These complete courses are professionally designed for self-guided study, making them one of the most enjoyable and easy to use language courses you can find.

9780340812853, 034081285015

Hebrew, Biblical: Teach Yourself Biblical Hebrew. Paperback

Teach Yourself Biblical Hebrew. Paperback
Sarah L. Nicholson
320 pages. 2006. Texts from the Old Testament are used to introduce the language and grammar, and no prior knowledge of any language study is assumed: everything is explained in clear English. The course covers: the alphabet, pronunciation, grammar and syntax, and there is a comprehensive Hebrew-English lexicon at the back of the book.

9780340913376, 034091337117

Goshen-Gottstein: A Syriac - English Glossary. With Etymological Notes. Paperback

Syriac - English Glossary. With Etymological Notes. Based on Brockelmann's Syriac Chrestmathy. Paperback
M.H. Goshen-Gottstein
x, 95 pages. 1970

9783447003452 3447003456

Deutscher: Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation. Hardcover

Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation. Hardcover
Guy Deutscher
xv, 204 pages, with glossary, references, index of subjects, index of quoted texts, some illustrations. 2000. Akkadian is one of the earliest attested languages and the oldest recorded Semitic language. In this book, Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of subordinate structures in Akkadian.

9780198299882 0198299885-80od192

Volk: Sumerian Reader. Second revised edition. Paperback

Sumerian Reader. Second, revised edition. Paperback
by Konrad Volk, with the collaboration of Silvano Votto and Annette Zgoll
xviii, 114 pages, with sign list, list of phonetic values, glossary. 1999

0 egit Volk

Halloran: Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language. Paperback

Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language. Paperback
by John A. Halloran
xiv, 318 pages. 2006

978097864290779

Black: Sumerian Grammar in Babylonian Theory. Second Revised Edition. Paperback

Sumerian Grammar in Babylonian Theory. Second Revised Edition.
Jeremy A. Black
xii, 168 pages. 1991

0 egit Black

Mitchel: A Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic. Paperback

Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic. Frequency Lists with Definitions, Pronounciation Guide, and Index. Paperback
Larry A. Mitchel
88 pages. 1984

0310454611

Buccellati: A Structural Grammar of Babylonian. Gebunden

Structural Grammar of Babylonian. Gebunden
Giorgio Buccellati
xxxiv, 512 Seiten, mit 6 Abbildungen. 1996

9783447036122 3447036125

Robinson: The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms. Paperback

Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms. 2nd edition, May 20007. Paperback
Andrew Robinson
232 pages, with 50 colour and over 300 black-white illustrations
Aims to demystify writing for the general reader. This book explains the interconnection between sound, symbol and script for each of the major writing systems in turn, and follows the discovery of writing forms from cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of Japan today

9780500286609212125

Pope: The Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Maya Script. Revised Edition. Paperback

Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Maya Script. Revised Edition. Paperback
Maurice Pope
232 pages, with 126 illustrations, plus map. 1999

9780500281055 050028105x

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Haarmann: Sprachenalmanach: Zahlen und Fakten zu allen Sprachen der Welt. Gebunden

Sprachenalmanach: Zahlen und Fakten zu allen Sprachen der Welt. Gebunden
Harald Haarmann
460 Seiten mit 12 Karten. 2002
Die 6000 Sprachen unserer Welt verteilen sich auf nicht einmal 200 Staaten. Ein Land wie Island mit nur einer Sprache ist die Ausnahme. In den meisten Ländern ist Mehrsprachigkeit selbstverständlich - allein in Papua-Neuguinea gibt es 800 Sprachen. Der Sprachenalmanach bietet einen einzigartigen Überblick über die Sprachen in den einzelnen Staaten und mit der Sprachenvielfalt verbundene Zusammenhänge - von sprachpolitischen Regelungen bis zu daraus erwachsenden Konflikten.

3593365723

Lipinski: Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar

Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar
E. Lipinski
754 pages. 2000

9042908157

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Hetzron: The Semitic Languages. 2004. Hardback

Semitic Languages. Hardback
edited by Robert Hetzron
592 pages. 1997, 2004. The Semitic family occupies a position of great historical and linguistic significance: the spoken and written languages of the Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arabs spread throughout Asia and northern and central Africa; the Old Semitic civilizations in turn contributed significantly to European culture; and modern Hebrew, modern literary Arabic, Amharic, and Tigrinya have become their nations' official languages.

9780415057677 0415057671 235

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Levin: Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies. With observations on Afro-Asiatic. Hardback

Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies. With observations on Afro-Asiatic. Volume 1. Hardback
Saul Levin
xxii, 519 pages. 1995. This volume presents the key examples of morphological correspondences between Indo-European and Semitic languages, afforded by nouns, verbal roots, pronouns, prepositions, and numerals. Its focus is on shared morphology embodied in the cognate vocabulary.

9027236321 1556195834

Fronzaroli, Marrassini: Semitic and Assyriological Studies. Presented to Pelio Fronzaroli by Pupils and Colleagues. Gebunden

Semitic and Assyriological Studies. Presented to Pelio Fronzaroli by Pupils and Colleagues. Gebunden. 24 x 17 cm
Herausgegeben von Paolo Marrassini
xxiii, 697 Seiten. 2004

9783447047494 3447047496

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Hasselbach: Sargonic Akkadian. A Historical and Comparative Study of the Syllabic Texts. Gebunden

Sargonic Akkadian. A Historical and Comparative Study of the Syllabic Texts. Gebunden, 24 x 17 cm
Rebecca Hasselbach
xvi, 292 Seiten. 2005

3447051728

Sawyer: Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts

Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts. Paperback
by John Sawyer
200 pages. 1999. By considering the status of Hebrew in Judaism alongside that of Greek in Rome Sacred Langauges and Sacred Texts sheds new light on the role of the power of words, spoken and written, in religion.

9780415125475 0415125472

Coakley: Robinson's Paradigms and Exercises in Syriac Grammar. Fifth edition. Paperbac

Robinson's Paradigms and Exercises in Syriac Grammar. Fifth edition. Paperback
J.F. Coakley
viii, 181 pages. 2003

9780199261291

Leslau: Reference Grammar of Amharic. Hardback

Reference Grammar of Amharic. Hardback
Wolf Leslau
xlv, 1044 pages. 1995

9783447033725 344703372x

Chadwick: Reading the Past: Linear B and Related Scripts. 4th impression. Paperback

Reading the Past: Linear B and Related Scripts. Paperback
by John Chadwick
64 pages, with illustrations, fourth impression 2001

0714180688

Chadwick: Reading the Past: Linear B and Related Scripts. 5th impression. Paperback

Reading the Past: Linear B and Related Scripts. Paperback
by John Chadwick
64 pages, with illustrations, fifth impression 2004. Long before Homer a script was in use in Greece which is quite unrelated to the alphabet ....

0714180688

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Murphy: Pocket Dictionary for the Study of Biblical Hebrew. Paperback

Pocket Dictionary for the Study of Biblical Hebrew. Paperback
by Todd J. Murphy
183 pages. 2003. From ablative to zaqeph qaton, it defines the tangled terms that infest Hebrew textbooks, grammars and lexicons. Here is a book that will deliver you from the perils of the Piel and the thicket of metathesis. It is an indispensable glossary that will cut through that technical language, neither Hebrew nor English, that hovers like ground fog over the study and discussion of biblical Hebrew

9780830814589, 0830814582-9

Junker: Persisch - Deutsch Wörterbuch. 9., unveränderte Auflage. Gebunden

Persisch-Deutsch Wörterbuch. 9., unveränderte Auflage, 2002. Gebunden
Heinrich F.J. Junker, Bozorg Alavi
xii, 864 Seiten. Das Wörterbuch enthält etwa 50000 Einzelwörter, Ableitungen und Wendungen und ist vorwiegend für den praktischen Gebrauch bestimmt. Bei jedem Stichwort ist neben der persischen Schreibweise, die Aussprache in Umschrift angegeben, gefolgt von der entsprechenden deutschen Bedeutung

9783447045612 3447045612

Doniach and Kahane: The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary. Paperback

Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary. Paperback
Edited by N. S. Doniach and A. Kahane
xvi, 1091 pages. 1998
Hailed by the Jewish Chronicle as a `tremendous advance over previous works', it provides a unique description of Hebrew language as it is encountered and used today, covering formal and poetic Hebrew as well as current idioms and phrases, slang and colloquialisms

9780198601722

Beall, Banks, Smith: Old Testament Parsing Guide. Paperback

Old Testament Parsing Guide. 2nd revised and updated edition. Paperback
by Beall, Todd S. / Banks, William A. / Smith, Colin
viii, 689 pages. 2000

9780805420326 40

Luraghi: Old Hittite Sentence Structure. Cloth

Old Hittite Sentence Structure. Cloth
by Sylvia Luraghi
x, 188 pages, 3 appendices, references, index of subjects, index of Hittite words and forms. 1990

9780415047357 0415047358

Zilkha: Modern Hebrew-English Dictionary. Paperback

Modern Hebrew-English Dictionary. Paperback
Avraham Zilkha
vi, 306 pages. 1989. Provides English equivalents for over 20,000 Hebrew words, with special attention given to the language of the media

0300046480

Zilkha: Modern English-Hebrew Dictionary. Paperback

Modern English-Hebrew Dictionary
Avraham Zilkha
vi, 464 pages. 1992. This English-Hebrew dictionary contains 30,000 entries, including many contemporary technical terms, recently coined Hebrew words, and translations for common idioms. It aims to address the need of its users to match words that have multiple meanings with their exact Hebrew equivalents

9780300090055

Awde: Modern Aramaic-(Assyrian-Syriac)-English, English-Modern Aramaic Dictionary and Phrasebook. Swadaya-English, Turoyo-English, English-Swadaya-Turoyo. Paperback