History of the Akkadian Language (2 Vols)

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44520-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 152, 1632 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 3379 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vita, Juan-Pablo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations: Bibliographical

Other Abbreviations and Conventions

Notes on Contributors

Part 1 Introduction

1 Research on the Akkadian Language

Michael P. Streck

Part 2 Teaching and Writing Akkadian in the Ancient Near East

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

Part 3 Akkadian: Some General Trends of Its Development

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

Part 4 Akkadian in the Fourth and Third Millennia BCE

11 Old Akkadian

Walter Sommerfeld

12 Eblaite

Leonid Kogan and Manfred Krebernik

Part 5 Akkadian in the Second Millennium BCE: Akkadian in Mesopotamia

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

Part 6 Akkadian in the Second Millennium BCE: Peripheral Akkadian

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

Part 7 Akkadian in the First Millennium BCE

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

Part 8 Afterlife: Akkadian after Akkadian

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).