Open-access book on the Eblaite language

By Mary Fisk|May 30, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics|0 comments

SOAS Library has just ordered Maria Tonietti’s new monograph Aspetti del sistema preposizionale dell’eblaita (which looks at prepositions in the Eblaite language through the medium of the Chancery and Ritual Texts from the Ebla Archives) However, the publishers have also made  the book available on open-access .Click on the following link to view or download the text: http://edizionicf.unive.it/index.php/Ant/article/view/477/243 Clay tablet from the Ebla Archives Image from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ebla_clay_tablet.jpg  

New open-access titles from the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago)

By Mary Fisk|November 23, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics, Literature|0 comments

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has released the following open-access monographs on ancient Near Eastern languages, literatures and cuneiform studies. These titles complete the Assyriological Studies series AS 24. The Hittite Instruction for the Royal Bodyguard. H. G. Güterbock and Theo van den Hout. 1991 http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/as/as24.html AS 21. Computer-Aided Analyses of Amorite. I. J. Gelb. 1980 http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/as/as21.html AS 19. The Akkadian Influence on Aramaic. S. Kaufman. 1974

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