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Workshop 4: Spoken Words and More – The Early History of the Transmission of Meaning through Cuneiform Writing
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Aramaic or no Aramaic? Multilingualism and the Strategy of Language Choice in the Written Sources from the Ancient Near East
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African Sun Media eBooks, 2021
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Michael Owen Wise, Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea. A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents. The Anchor Bible Reference Library. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015.
Jan Joosten
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2010 “Four Dimensions of Linguistic Variation: Aramaic Dialects in and Around Qumran,” in The Dead Sea Scrolls in Context (ed. Armin Lange, Emanuel Tov, and Matthias Weigold; Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 140; Leiden: Brill), 1.199-213
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EHLL: Northwest Semitic Languages and Hebrew
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“On the Appearance of Royal Inscriptions in Alphabetic Scripts in the Levant: An Exercise in ‘Historically Anchored Philology,’”
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Reading and Writing Cuneiform in Canaan: A Comparative Look
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Yigal Bloch 2018, Alphabet Scribes in the Land of Cuneiform. Review by Jan Safford in JAOS 142 4
Jan Safford
Alphabet Scribes in the Land of Cuneiform: Sēpiru Professional in Mesopotamia in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods., 2018
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A Cultural History of Aramaic: From the Beginnings to the Advent of Islam
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What Was the Alphabet For? The Rise of Written Vernaculars and the Making of Israelite National Literature
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Script-Switching: Linguistic and Historical Aspects of the Shift from Hebrew to Aramaic Script in the Second Temple Period
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“The Final Phase of the Common ‘Proto-Semitic’ Alphabet in the Southern Levant: A Rejoinder to Sass and Finkelstein.” Eds. Oded Lipschits, Yuval Gadot, and Matthew Adams. Eisenbrauns, 2017.
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Rethinking Israel: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel in Honor of Israel Finkelstein, 2017
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Review of "The World's Oldest Alphabet: Hebrew as the Language of the Proto-consonantal Script" by Douglas Petrovich
David A Falk
Review of Biblical Literature, 2018
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With K. Radner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Rewriting the Script: Decoding the Textual Experience in the Bronze Age Levant
Rachael Sparks
2009
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Sociolinguistics: A Key to the Typology and the Social Background of Biblical Hebrew
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Kristine Stenzel
2009
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Traces of the Old Hebrew Alphabet among the Israelite Peoples of Eurasia
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The Early History of the Alphabet: The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions 2.0, Canaanite not Hebrew
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Writing and Early Iron Age Israel: Before National Scripts, Beyond Nations and States
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Languages from the World of the Bible: Introduction
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LANGUAGES, SCRIPTS AND LITERATURES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, Syllabus and handouts, Claremont, Spring 1987
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