2410, 2013

Online bibliography of Semitic linguistics

By Mary Fisk|October 24, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics|0 comments

Hebrew square book script. Iraq. 11th century (from Schoyen Collection Manuscript) MS206: image from WikiMedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Targum.jpg) Gregorio del Olmo Lete’s (University of Barcelona) A bibliography of Semitic linguistics (1940-2010) is a digitized PDF version of a traditional print bibliography, covering a wide range of Semitic languages from ancient Akkadian and Ugaritic, through Ethiopic to modern Hebrew and South Arabic. The site allows users to navigate easily between the different

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2708, 2013

Ancient linguistics: Ugaritic and Hebrew

By Mary Fisk|August 27, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics|0 comments

Ugaritic inscription on an axe. Image from WikiMedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ugaritic_inscription_on_an_axe.jpg This article from the Jewish Daily Forward (New York) looks at how the ancient language Ugaritic (written in cuneiform characters) was decoded and how scholars noted its linguistic similarities to other Semitic languages of the ancient Near East, such as Phoenician and Biblical-era Hebrew Click here to read the article in Forward    If you want to follow “Philologos’s’”  recommendation and

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