History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols)

by Juan-Pablo Vita (Editor)

Overview

Akkadian is, after Sumerian, the second oldest language attested in the Ancient Near East, as well as the oldest known Semitic language. It is also a language with one of history’s longest written records. And yet, unlike other relevant languages written over a long period of time, there has been no volume dedicated to its own history. The aim of the present work is to fill that void. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors and divided into two volumes, the first covering the linguistic background and early periods and the second covering the second and first millennia BCE as well as its afterlife.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004445208
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/18/2021
Series:	Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East Series , #152
Pages:	1692
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Juan-Pablo Vita, Ph.D. (1995), is a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. His most recent monographs are Canaanite Scribes in the Amarna Letters (Ugarit-Verlag, 2015) and (in cooperation with Josef Tropper) Lehrbuch der ugaritischen Sprache (Zaphon, 2020).

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations: Bibliographical
Other Abbreviations and Conventions
Notes on Contributors


1 Research on the Akkadian Language
 Michael P. Streck



2 Teaching Akkadian in the Ancient Near East
 Alexandra Kleinerman

3 Akkadian and Cuneiform
 Michael P. Streck

4 Akkadian and Alphabetic Cuneiform
 Carole Roche-Hawley and Robert Hawley

5 Akkadian and the Greek Alphabet (Graeco-Babyloniaca)
 Martin Lang



6 Classification of Akkadian within the Semitic Family
 Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee

7 Historical Morphology of Akkadian
 N.J.C. Kouwenberg

8 A Historical Overview of Akkadian Morphosyntax
 Ilya Arkhipov, Maksim Kalinin and Sergey Loesov

9 A History of the Akkadian Lexicon
 Leonid Kogan and Manfred Krebernik

10 A History of Akkadian Onomastics
 Regine Pruzsinszky



11 Old Akkadian
 Walter Sommerfeld

12 Eblaite
 Leonid Kogan and Manfred Krebernik



13 Old Babylonian
 Michael P. Streck

14 Middle Babylonian
 Wilfred H. van Soldt

15 Old Assyrian
 N.J.C. Kouwenberg

16 Middle Assyrian
 Stefan Jakob



17 Akkadian and the Amorites
 Dominique Charpin

18 Akkadian in Syria and Canaan
 Juan-Pablo Vita

19 Akkadian and the Hittites
 Gary Beckman

20 Akkadian in Egypt
 Matthias Müller

21 Akkadian in Elam
 Florence Malbran-Labat



22 Neo-Assyrian
 Frederick M. Fales

23 (Early) Neo-Babylonian
 Christian W. Hess

24 Late Babylonian
 Johannes Hackl

25 The Death of Akkadian as a Written and Spoken Language
 Johannes Hackl



26 The Legacy of Akkadian
 John Huehnergard

Index of Personal Names
Index of Divine Names
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Texts Cited
Index of Subjects