Eisenbrauns! Ugaritic! Semitics! No $!

Ben
Ben Member Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

This just appeared. 

http://www.logos.com/product/31574/linguistic-studies-in-ancient-west-semitic-series

It includes Josh Blau; I've been requesting his Hebrew grammar for a long time, but this covers much of the same ground.

It includes Pardee's Ugaritic grammar in English. When I took Ugaritic from him, the original French volumes had just appeared, and we had to use that. It's excellent. Pardee is one of the top US scholars of Ugaritic (Mark S. Smith being one of the others). He once wrote a review of Tropper's (German) grammar of Ugaritic that was longer than the grammar itself, 404 pages! The man knows Hebrew, Ugaritic and Semitic languages like you would not believe.

http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.fr/2012/09/pardee-on-tropper-in-afo-50.html

It includes Blaine Conklin's book on oath formulae. He also studied with Pardee, two years ahead of me. As I have an interest in curses, his dissertation (now published as this book) sits on my shelf. 

Cynthia Miller, Ziony Zevit...Lots of good stuff here for deep digging into the structure and background of Hebrew, esp. diachronic shifts and Semitic background. I groused to my wife, "why do they start publishing so much stuff I like now that we no longer have the income to acquire it?!"...

Seriously, good package. Worth picking up. 

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton

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  • Niko
    Niko Member Posts: 164 ✭✭

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  • George Somsel
    George Somsel Member Posts: 10,153 ✭✭✭

    Ben said:

    It includes Blaine Conklin's book on oath formulae. He also studied with Pardee, two years ahead of me. As I have an interest in curses, his dissertation (now published as this book) sits on my shelf.

    Yes, I have an interest in curses too.  When I was in college I worked with some painters during the summer.  [;)]

    george
    gfsomsel

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  • Sleiman
    Sleiman Member Posts: 672 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/485319#Comment_485319

    George Somsel said:

    Ben said:

    It includes Blaine Conklin's book on oath formulae. He also studied with Pardee, two years ahead of me. As I have an interest in curses, his dissertation (now published as this book) sits on my shelf.

    Yes, I have an interest in curses too.  When I was in college I worked with some painters during the summer.  Wink

    LOL!

  • hc
    hc Member Posts: 54 ✭✭

    I guess this died in the water…?? These volumes are not available in Logos, right?

  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick MVP Posts: 16,170
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1344825#Comment_1344825

    AFAIK, currently no books at all from Eisenbrauns are available in Logos (publisher was taken over and new owners made a stupid decision they are yet to rectify).

    Have joy in the Lord! Smile

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,190 ✭✭✭✭

    It didn't die in the water … I have all the volumes. But as NB notes, Eisenbrauns pulled out. They're one of several that disappeared in the academic arena.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

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