Review of The Invention of Hebrew, by Seth L. Sanders (original) (raw)

Review of Christopher Rollston, Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel (2011)

Ian Young

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Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, “Crossing Palaeographical Borders: Bi-Alphabetical Scribes and the Development of Hebrew Script – The Case of the Maghrebi Cursive,” in Semitic Linguistics and Manuscripts: A Liber Discipulorum in Honour of Prof. Geoffrey Khan (Uppsala: Acta Universitatis, 2018), 299-319

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

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Workshop 4: Spoken Words and More – The Early History of the Transmission of Meaning through Cuneiform Writing

Gösta Gabriel

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A Cultural History of the Semitic Languages

Sharron Gu

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Aramaic or no Aramaic? Multilingualism and the Strategy of Language Choice in the Written Sources from the Ancient Near East

Angelika Berlejung

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

Aaron Koller

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EHLL: Northwest Semitic Languages and Hebrew

Holger Gzella

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“On the Appearance of Royal Inscriptions in Alphabetic Scripts in the Levant: An Exercise in ‘Historically Anchored Philology,’”

Chip Dobbs-Allsopp

“On the Appearance of Royal Inscriptions in Alphabetic Scripts in the Levant: An Exercise in ‘Historically Anchored Philology,’” Maarav 23/2 (2019), 389-442

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Reading and Writing Cuneiform in Canaan: A Comparative Look

Yoram Cohen

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2008 Brown, David R. Increasingly Redundant – the growing obsolescence of the cuneiform script in Babylonia from 539 BC on. J. Baines, J. Bennet & S. Houston eds., The Disappearance of Writing Systems. Perspectives on Literacy and Communication. London: Equinox: 73-102.

David Brown

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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

Holger Gzella

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What Was the Alphabet For? The Rise of Written Vernaculars and the Making of Israelite National Literature

Seth Sanders

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Script-Switching: Linguistic and Historical Aspects of the Shift from Hebrew to Aramaic Script in the Second Temple Period

Noam Mizrahi

Published in Kleine Untersuchungen zur Sprache des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt 22 (2017), 101–123, 2017

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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.

David S Vanderhooft

Rethinking Israel: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel in Honor of Israel Finkelstein, 2017

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Review of Christopher A. Rollston, Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel: Epigraphic Evidence from the Iron Age, by K. Martin Heide, Journal of Semitic Studies 2013 58: 403-406

Martin Heide

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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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'el-mĕdînâ ûmĕdînâ kiktābāh: Scribes and Scripts in Yehud and in Achaemenid Transeuphratene.

David S Vanderhooft

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With K. Radner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Eleanor Robson

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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

Frank H. Polak

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Review of The writing revolution: Cuneiform to the internet

Kristine Stenzel

2009

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Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, “Early Babylonian ‘Documentary’ Script: Diplomatic and Palaeographical Study of Two Geonic Letters from the British Library Cairo Genizah Collection,” in Manuscrits hébreux et arabes: Mélanges en l’honneur de Colette Sirat (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), 177-195

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

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Cuneiform, Linear, Alphabetic: The Contest between Writing Systems in the Eastern Mediterranean

Joanna Kyffin

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Traces of the Old Hebrew Alphabet among the Israelite Peoples of Eurasia

Howard HS Chung

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MULTILINGUALISM ON MULTIPLE MEDIA IN THE NEO-ASSYRIAN PERIOD: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE, SAAB 16 (2007)

Mario Fales

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Maiocchi M. 2015, Early Writing: Cuneiform script and the Origin of the Oldest Writing Systems -- PREPRINTin Comparative Perspective Massimo Maiocchi

Massimo Maiocchi

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Geoffrey Khan, “The Languages of the Old Testament,” in James Carleton Paget and Joachim Schaper, eds., The New Cambridge History: From the Beginnings to 600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 1-21

Geoffrey Khan

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The Early History of the Alphabet: The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions 2.0, Canaanite not Hebrew

Christopher Rollston

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Languages and writing systems in Assyria

Mikko Luukko, Greta Van Buylaere

In: E. Frahm (ed.), Companion to Assyria (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), 2017

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The Languages of the Jews in Roman Palestine - The Epigraphic Evidence

Jonathan Price

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Writing and Early Iron Age Israel: Before National Scripts, Beyond Nations and States

Seth Sanders

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Languages from the World of the Bible: Introduction

Holger Gzella

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LANGUAGES, SCRIPTS AND LITERATURES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, Syllabus and handouts, Claremont, Spring 1987

Edmund Meltzer

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