Shlomo Izre'el - Publications

Books:

• Izre'el, Shlomo and Itamar Singer. The General's Letter from Ugarit: A Linguistic and Historical Reevaluation of RS 20.33 (= Ugaritica V No. 20). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies. 1990.
• Izre'el, Shlomo. Amurru Akkadian: A Linguistic Study. With an Appendix on the History of Amurru by Itamar Singer. Volume I (Harvard Semitic Studies, 40); Volume II (Harvard Semitic Studies, 41). Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press. 1991.
• Izre'el, Shlomo. The Amarna Scholarly Tablets. (Cuneiform Monographs, 9.) Groningen: Styx. 1997.
• Izre'el, Shlomo. Canaano-Akkadian. (Languages of the World/Materials, 82.) München: LINCOM Europa. 1998. Second reprint, with minor corrections: 2005 (for a list of corrections made click here).
• Westenholz, Joan Goodnick, in collaboration with Jun Ikeda, Shlomo Izre'el, Marcel Sigrist, Itamar Singer, Masamichi Yamada. Cuneiform Inscriptions in the Collection of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem: The Emar Tablets. (Cuneiform Monographs, 13.) Groningen: Styx. 2000.
• Izre'el, Shlomo. Adapa and the South Wind: Language Has the Power of Life and Death. (Mesopotamian Civilizations, 10.) Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. 2001.
• Izre'el, Shlomo and Eran Cohen. Literary Old Babylonian. (Languages of the World/Materials, 81.) München: LINCOM Europa. 2004. —— For a provisional list of corrections click here.

Edited Books:

• Izre'el, Shlomo and Rina Drory (eds.). Israel Oriental Studies 15: Language and Culture in the Near East. Leiden: Brill. 1995.
• Izre'el, Shlomo and Shlomo Raz (eds.). Israel Oriental Studies 16: Studies in Modern Semitic Languages. Leiden: Brill. 1996.
• Izre'el, Shlomo, Itamar Singer and Ran Zadok (eds.). Israel Oriental Studies 18: Links to the Past: Studies in the Languages and Cultures of the Ancient Near East. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. 1998.
• Izre'el, Shlomo (ed.). Israel Oriental Studies 20: Semitic Linguistics: The State of the Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Indiana. 2002.
• Izre'el, Shlomo (ed.), with the assistance of Margalit Mendelson. Speaking Hebrew: Studies in the Spoken Language and in Linguistic Variation in Israel. (Te'uda, 18.) Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University. 2002. ——For the Table of Contents and English abstracts click here.
• Moran, William L. Amarna Studies: Collected Writings. Edited by John Huehnergard and Shlomo Izre'el. (Harvard Semitic Studies, 54.) Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. 2003.

Web publication:

• The El-Amarna Tablets (2000)

Textbook:

• Hebrew and Armaic Inscriptions. Tel Aviv University: Department of Archaeology. 1975. [Hebrew].

Articles:

• Towards a Better Understanding of Two Lines in the Ugaritic Legend of KRT. Leshonenu 38 (1974): 300-302. [Hebrew].
• The Symptoms of King KRT's Illness. Ugarit Forschungen 8 (1976): 446-447.
• Two Notes on the Gezer-Amarna Tablets. Tel Aviv 4 (1977): 159-167; pl.18(5).
• The Gezer Letters of the el-Amarna Archive ó Linguistic Analysis. Israel Oriental Studies 8 (1978): 13-90.
• 'Et = "To, Towards" in Biblical Hebrew. Shnaton le-xeker ha-mizrax ha-kadum 3 (1978): 204-212. [Hebrew].
• The El-Amarna Letters from Canaan. Interdisciplinary Bible Scholar 1 (1979). Pp. 14-22.
• On the So-Called Ventive Morpheme in the Akkadian Texts of Amurru. Ugarit Forschungen 16 (1984). Pp. 83-92. References in Ugarit Forschungen 17 (1985-6): 403-404.
• Was the Revival of the Hebrew Language a Miracle? On Pidginization and Creolization Processes in the Creation of Modern Hebrew. Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress for Jewish Studies , Part 4, Vol. 1: Hebrew and Judaic Languages; Other Languages. Jerusalem. 1986. 77-84. [Hebrew].
• Early Northwest Semitic 3rd Pl. M. Prefix: The Evidence of the Amarna Letters. Ugarit Forschungen 19 (1987): 79-90.
• The Complementary Distribution of the Vowels e and i in the Peripheral Akkadian Dialect of Amurru: a Further Step towards Our Understanding of the Development of the Amarna Jargon. In: Herrmann Jungraithmayr and Walter W. Müller (eds.). Proceedings of the Fourth International Hamito-Semitic Congress. Marburg, 20-22 September 1983. (Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series IV ó Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1987. 525-541.
• When Was the "General's Letter" from Ugarit Written? In: M. Heltzer and E. Lipnski (Eds.). Society and Economy in the Eastern Mediterranean (c. 1500-1000 B.C.). Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the University of Haifa from the 28th of April to the 2nd of May 1985. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 23.) Louvain: Peeters. 1988. 160-175.
• Arsuf, which is Ershof. Appendix 1 In: Israel Roll and Etan Ayalon. Apollonia and the Southern Sharon: Model of a Coastal City and Its Hinterland. Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Israel Exploration Society. 1989. 245-258. [Hebrew]
• Two Fragments of Phoenician Inscriptions from Apollonia. In: Israel Roll and Etan Ayalon.? Apollonia and the Southern Sharon: Model of a Coastal City and Its Hinterland. Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Israel Exploration Society. 1989: 259-267. [Hebrew]
• On the Person-Prefixes of the Akkadian Verb. The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 20 (1991): 35-56. <http://www.jtsa.edu/Documents/pagedocs/JANES/1991%2020/Izreel20.pdf>
• See Red: Reflections on the Amarna Recension of Adapa. In: Kaye, Alan S. (ed.). Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau on the Occasion of His Eighty-Fifth Birthday, November 14th, 1991. Vol. I. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. 1991. 746-772.
• A God Rib(b)a:n in Ugarit? Ugarit Forschungen 23 (1991): 217-218.
• Some Toughts on the Amarna Version of Adapa. In: Mesopotamie et Elam: Actes de la XXXVème RAI, Gand, 10-14 juillet 1989. (Mesopotamian History and Environment, Occasional Publications, 1.) Ghent. 1991. 211-220.
• The Study of Oral Poetry: Reflections of a Neophyte: Can We Learn Anything on Orality from the Study of Akkadian Poetry, Especially in Akhetaton? In: Vogelzang, Marianna E. and Herman L. J. Vanstiphout (eds.). Mesopotamian Epic Litereature: Oral or Aural? Lewiston: Mellen. 1992. 155-225.
• Hatti and Amurru: Linguistic Influences. In: D. Charpin and F. Joannes (eds.). La circulation des biens, des personnes et des idées dans le Proche-Orient ancient: Actes de la XXXVIIIe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Paris, 8-10 juillet 1991). Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilizations. 1992. 227-230.
• New Readings in the Amarna Versions of Adapa and Nergal and Ereshkigal. In: A. F. Rainey (ed.) kinattu:tu sha da:ri:ti: Raphael Kutscher memorial Volume. (Tel Aviv; Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, Occasional Publications, 1.) Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology. 1993. 51-67.
• Did Adapa Indeed Lose His Chance for Eternal Life? A Rationale For Translating Ancient Texts into a Modern Language. Target 6 (1994): 15-41.
• The Amarna Letters from Canaan. In: Jack M. Sasson (ed.). Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. 4 volumes. New York: Scribners. 1995. 2411-2419. Click here to download a scan in pdf format.
• The Amarna Glosses: Who Wrote What for Whom? Some Sociolinguistic Considerations. Israel Oriental Studies 15 (1995): 101-122. Click here to download a scan in pdf format. For color photographs of EA 369 click the following:

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• Amarna Tablets in the Collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Journal for Semitics 7 (1995): 125-161.
• Mesopotamian Literature in Contemporary Setting: Translating Akkadian Myths. In: M. E. Vogelzang, and H. L. J. Vanstiphout (eds.). Mesopotamian Poetic Language: Sumerian and Akkadian. (Cuneiform monographs, 6: Proceedings of the Groningen Group for the Study of Mesopotamian Literature, 2.) Groningen: Styx. 1996. 85-125.
• Amarna Tablets. In: Eric M. Meyers (editor in chief). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Near Eastern Archaeology. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1997. Vol. 1. 86-87.
• Arsuf: The Semitic Name of Appolonia. Chapter 2 in: Apollonia-Arsuf: Final report of the Excavations. Volume I: The Persian Period and Hellenistic Periods (with Appendices on the Chalcholithic and Iron Age II remains). (Tel Aviv University, Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Monograph Series, 16.) Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University. 1999. 63-75.  [A revised version of a Hebrew 1989 paper.]
• Three Phoenician Inscriptions on Clay Vessels. Chapter 4.2.8 in: Apollonia-Arsuf: Final report of the Excavations. Volume I: The Persian Period and Hellenistic Periods (with Appendices on the Chalcholithic and Iron Age II remains). (Tel Aviv University, Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Monograph Series, 16.) Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University. 1999. 197-204.  [A revised version of a Hebrew 1989 paper; includes also one additional inscription.]
• The Initiation of Adapa in Heaven. In: Prosecky, Jirí (ed.). Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East: Papers Presented at the 43rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Prague, July 1-5, 1996. Prague: Academy of Sciences of the Chech Republic, Oriental Institute. 183-187.
• Linguistics and Poetics in Old Babylonian Literature: Mimation and Meter in Etana. The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 20 (2000): 57-68. <http://www.jtsa.edu/Documents/pagedocs/JANES/2000%2027/Izreel27.pdf>
• Izre'el, Shlomo, Benjamin Hary and Giora Rahav. Designing CoSIH: The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6 (2001): 171-197.
• Izre'el, Shlomo, Benjamin Hary and Giora Rahav. Toward the Compilation of The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew. Leshonénu 64 (2002): 265-287. [A Hebrew version of the preceding.]
• The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew: Textual Samples. Leshonénu 64 (2002): 289-314. [Hebrew]
  For reviewed IPA transcriptions and their respective sound files click the following:

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• Hary, Benjamin and Shlomo Izre'el. The Preparatory Model of The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew. In: Shlomo Izre'el (ed.), with the assistance of Margalit Mendelson. Speaking Hebrew: Studies in the Spoken Language and in Linguistic Variation in Israel. (Te'uda, 18.) Tel Aviv: Tel-Aviv University. 2002. 189-219. [abridged Hebrew version of the English version in Hary (ed.) 2003, below]
• The Emergence of Spoken Israeli Hebrew. In: Shlomo Izre'el (ed.), with the assistance of Margalit Mendelson. Speaking Hebrew: Studies in the Spoken Language and in Linguistic Variation in Israel. (Te'uda, 18.) Tel Aviv: Tel-Aviv University. 2002. 217-238. [See English version below]
• The Emergence of Spoken Israeli Hebrew. In: Benjamin H. Hary (ed.). Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew: Towards the Compilation of The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies. 2003. 85-104.[Download a corrected version at <http://www.tau.ac.il/~izreel/publications/emergence.pdf>. See Hebrew version above]
• Hary, Benjamin and Shlomo Izre'el. The Preparatory Model of The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH). In: Benjamin H. Hary (ed.). Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew: Towards the Compilation of The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies. 2003. 189-219. [For a previous version click here]
• The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH), Phase I: The Pilot Study — A Preliminary Report. In: Daniel Sivan and Pablo-Itshak Halevy-Kirtchuk (eds.). Yaakov Bentolila Jubilee Volume: research Papers in Hebrew Linguistics, Hebrew Literature and Jewish Languages. (Eshel Beer-Sheva: Occasional Publications in Jewish Studies, 8.) Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press. [Hebrew]
• Vocalized Canaanite: Cuneiform-Written Canaanite Words in the Amarna Letters: Some Methodological remarks. DS-NELL (Dutch Studies - Society of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures) 5 (2003): 13-34.
• Canaanite Varieties in the Second Millennium BC: Can We Dispense with Anachronism? Orient 38 (2003): 66-104.
• Amir, Noam, Vered Silber-Varod and Shlomo Izre'el. 2004. Characteristics of Intonation Unit Boundaries in Spontaneous Spoken Hebrew: Perception and Acoustic Correlates. In: Bernard Bel and Isabelle Marlien (eds.). Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan, March 23-26, 2004: Proceedings. 677-680.
• Izre'el, Shlomo and Giora Rahav. 2004. The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH); Phase I: The Pilot Study. In: Nelleke Oostdijk, Gjert Kristoffersen, and Geoffrey Sampson (eds.). LREC 2004 Sattelite Workshop; Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: Compiling and Processing Spoken Language Corpora (Lisbon, Portugal). Paris: ELRA - European Language Resources Association. 1-7.
• The Transmission of Spoken Hebrew into the Written Medium. Leshonénu La'Am 54 (2005): 106-119. [Hebrew]
• Canaano-Akkadian: Some Methodological Requisites for the Study of the Amarna Letters from Canaan (2007 version). For a previous version (1987) click here.
• Coprus Linguistics and Lexical Grammar or: Are new Methods in Lexicology Useful or Do They Cause Harm? In: Moshe Bar-Asher and Moshe Florentin (eds.). Samaritan, Hebrew and Aramaic Studies Presented to Professor Abraham Tal. Jerusalem: The Bialik Instituite, 2005. 335-359. [Hebrew]
• Form Speech to Syntax — From Theory to Transcription. In: M. Bar-Asher and C. E. Cohen (eds.). Mas'at Aharon: Linguistic Studies Presented to Aron Dotan.  Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2009. 590-610. (In Hebrew.) Click here to download the paper in pdf format.
• Transcribing Spoken Israeli Hebrew: Preliminary Notes. In: Dorit Diskin Ravid and Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot (Eds.). Perspectives on Language and Language Development: Essays in Honor of Ruth A. Berman. Dodrecht: Kluwer. 2004. 61-72.
• The Akkadian Verbal System: Derivational and Inflectional Strategies. In: Yitschak Sefati, Pinhas Artzi, Chaim Cohen, Barry L. Eichler and Victor A. Hurowitz (eds.). "An Experienced Scribe Who Neglects Nothing": Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Jacob Klein. (Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Institute of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, The Faculty of Jewish Studies. Bar-Ilan University.) Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press. 2005. 533-547.
• Constructive Constructions: Semitic Verbal Morphology and Beyond. In: Gideon Goldenberg and Ariel Shisha-Halevy (eds.). Egyptian, Semitic and Genral Grammar: Studies in Memory of H. J. Polotsky. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 2009. 106-130.
• "At her speech, the gods of the land rejoiced": Some Thoughts on Old Babylonian Mythological Narratives. For a pre-published version click here.
• Segmental Length: A View from Akkadian. In: Tali Bar and Eran Cohen (eds.). Studies in Semitic and General Linguistics in Honor of to Gideon Goldenberg. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 334.) Münster: Ugarit Verlag. 2007. 13-28. For a pdf copy click here.
• Intonation Units and the Structure of Spontaneous Spoken Language: A View from Hebrew. In: Cyril Auran, Roxanne Bertrand, Catherine Chanet, Annie Colas, Albert Di Cristo, Cristel Portes, Alain Reynier and Monique Vion (eds.) Proceedings of the IDP05 International Symposium on Discourse-Prosody Interfaces. 2005. Cd ROM and <http://aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~prodige/idp05/actes/izreel.pdf>. Downloadable also at <http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/semitic/idp05.pdf>.
• "Hebrew Spoken here": Learning Hebrew in Nazi Germany. Zmanim,A Historical Quarterly 93 (2005): 56-69. (Hebrew) Click here to download the paper (without the included cd).  For a web version click here.
• Amina Mettouchi, Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Vered Silber-Varod & Shlomo Izre'el. Only Prosody? Perception of speech segmentation. Nouveauz cahiers de linguistique française 28 (2007) : Intefaces discours – prosodie : actes du 2ème Symposium international & Colloque Charles Bally, 207-218. <http://clf.unige.ch/display.php?idFichier=109>;  sound files and transcriptions: <http://clf.unige.ch/annexe.php?article=108>
• Izre'el, Shlomo and Vered Silber-Varod. "OMER LENATEAX LENATEAX": Perception of Prosodic Groups in Spoken Hebrew. Hebrew Linguistics 63-64: 13-33. (In Hebrew.) For a pre-published version Click here.
• "The Canaanite Were Then in the Land": The Languages of Palestine in the Canaanite Period. Leshonénu La'Am. [To appear.] (Hebrew) For a pre-published version Click here.

Editing:

• General editor of Israel Oriental Studies (1996-2000).
• Editor of the section for Oriental languages in the 3th Supplement to Encyclopaedia Hebraica (with Jacob Klein).

Reviews:

• Gotthelf Bergsträsser, Introduction to the Semitic Languages. Text Specimens and Grammatical Sketches. Translated with Notes and Bibliography and an Appendix on the Scripts by Peter T. Daniels. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns; 1983. Bibliotheca Orientalis 41 (1984): 663-671.
• George E. Mendenhall. The Syllabic Inscriptions from Byblos. Beirut 1985. Journal of the American Oriental Society 108.3 (1988): 519-521.
• W. Randall Garr. Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 B.C.E. Philadelphia. 1985. Bulletin of the Schools of Oriental Research 270 (1988): 94-97. Click here to download a scan in pdf format.
• A New Translation of the Amarna Letters. (Review Article of William L. Moran, Les lettres d'el Amarna. Correspondance diplomatique du pharaon. Traduction de W. L. Moran avec la collaboration de V. Haas et? G. Wilhelm. = Littératures anciennes du Proche-Orient, 13. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1987.) Bibliotheca Orientalis 47(5/6), 1990: 577-604. Click here to download a scan in pdf format.
• Robert M. Whiting, Jr. Old Babylonian Letters from Tell Asmar. (Assyriological Studies, 22.) Chicago, Illinois: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; 1987. Revue Biblique 97 (1990): 600-603.
• John Huenergard. The Akkadian of Ugarit. (Harvard Semitic Studies, 34.) Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press; 1989. Bibliotheca Orientalis 49 (1992): 168-180.
• Agustinus Gianto. Word Order Variation in the Akkadian of Byblos. (Studia Pohl, 15.) Roma: Pontificio Istituto Biblico; 1990. Orientalia 61 (1992): 148-151.
• Richard S. Hess, Amarna Personal Names. (American Schools of Oriental Research, Dissertation Series, 9.) Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. 1993. Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (1996): 270-271.
• Elmar Edel, Die ägyptisch-hethitische Korrespondenz aus Boghazköy in babylonischer und hethitischer Sprache. I-II. (Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 77.) Oplanden: Westdeutscher Verlag. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 87 (1997): 141-147.
• Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (editor), Mosaïque de Langues. Mosaïque Culturelle. Le Bilinguisme dans le Proche-Orient Ancien. (Antiquités Sémitiques, 1). Paris: Adrien Maisonneuve; 1996. Bibliotheca Orientalis 55/1-2 (1988): 79-81.
• J. Hoftijzer, and K. Jongeling. Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions. With appendices by R. C. Steiner, A. Mosak-Moshavi and B. Porten. I-II. (Handbuch der Orienatlistik, Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten, 21.) Leiden: Brill; 1995. Israel Oriental Studies 18 (1998). Click here to download a scan in pdf format.
• N.J.C. Kouwenberg, Gemination in the Akkadian Verb. (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 33.) Assen: Van Gorcum. 1997. Archiv für Orientforschung 47 (1999/2000): 359-362.

Popular articles:

• A Book in Focus: On In Those Distant days: Anthology of Mesopotamian Literature , by Shin Shifra and Jacob Klein. With: Shlomo Izre'el, Aviad Kleinberg, Lilach Lachman, and Aharon Amir; moderator: Nissim Calderon. Mikarov: Literary Review 1 (1997): 21-41. (Hebrew)
• Zoige Zoige; or: Show Respect to Spoken Hebrew. Ha'aretz Literary Supplement, April 26, 2004. (Hebrew)
• The Story of Adapa and the South Wind, or: How Adapa Almost Won Eternal Life. Ha'aretz Literary Supplement, July 15, 2005. (Hebrew)
• Athbheochan Eabhrais Iosrael: Ceacht don Ghaeilge? (The Revival of Israeli Hebrew: A Lesson for Irish?) Lá: Nuachán Laethúil na Gaeilge, 4 Lúnasa (August) 2005, p. 9. (Irish)
• "And the Great King, my lord, has told me: 'Obey your commissioner.' I obeyed very much. And if I did not hear (obeyed), he surely knows." (On: Zippora Cochavy-Rainey, To the King, My Lord: Letters from El-Amarna, Kumidu, Taanach and Other Letters from the Forteenth Century BCE. (The Biblical Encyclopaedia Library, 20.) Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik and Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University press, 2005 — First article (Hebrew). Ha'aretz Literary Supplement, October 17, 2005. (Hebrew) Click here to download the manuscript of this review.
• "And what else will I seek? The beautiful face of the king, my lord, I will seek." (On: Zippora Cochavy-Rainey, To the King, My Lord: Letters from El-Amarna, Kumidu, Taanach and Other Letters from the Forteenth Century BCE. (The Biblical Encyclopaedia Library, 20.) Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik and Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University press, 2005 — Second article (Hebrew). Ha'aretz Literary Supplement, October 24, 2005. (Hebrew)

 

Notes and abstracts:

• Two notes: a. on the Mesha Tablet; b. on the Root sh-H-y in El-Amarna. Leshonenu 39 (1975): 156. [Hebrew].
• amur in Amurru. NABU 1993/3: 57, #71.
• The Amarna Glosses: Who Wrote What for Whom? Some Sociolinguistic Considerations. In: K. Van Lerberghe and G. Voet (eds.). Languages and Cultures in Contact: At the Crossroads of Civilizations in the Syro-Mesopotamian Realm. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 96.) Leuven: Peeters, 2000. 201.

 

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