| Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew Letters, second edition Contributor(s): Lindenberger, James M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1589830369 ISBN-13: 9781589830363 Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature OUR PRICE: $25.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2003 Annotation: An up-to-date translation of seventy-nine letters and fragments, virtually the complete corpus of surviving letters in Aramaic and Hebrew down to the time of Alexander, omitting only the most fragmentary and the most formulaic. This includes the correspondence from ancient Jewish writers at Yavneh-Yam (7th Century), Arad and Lachish (6th), and Elephantine (5th). There are also administrative letters from Persian bureaucrats, private commercial and family correspondence from Egypt, and other scattered letters from Assyria, Egypt, Philistia, and Idumaea. Also included are short notes in Edomite, Ammonite, and Phoenician. The revised edition is supplemented by nine new texts. Translations are now provided with line numbers, and some have been improved in the light of recent studies. Each letter appears alongside the original text in square script. Brief introductions set each group of letters into its historical and social context. The arrangement within each language group is roughly chronological. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Arabic |
| Dewey: 492.29 |
| LCCN: 2002154284 |
| Series: Writings from the Ancient World |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6" W x 9.04" (0.62 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A readable anthology of epistles, rather than a guide to alphabetic characters, is presented for nonspecialist scholars of the Middle East, the Bible, and languages. Some of the better preserved letters in the two languages down to the time of Alexander the Great, was first published in 1994. The second edition includes nine new texts, some subsequ |