More Eisenbrauns!

Niko
Niko Member Posts: 164 ✭✭
edited December 2024 in English Forum

These are nice and should help to understand hebrew too:

Introduction to the Semitic Languages. Gotthelf Bergstrasser.

Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 BCE. Randall Garr.

Semitic Noun Patterns. Joshua Fox.

Studies in Semitic Grammaticalization. Aaron Rubin.

Linguistic Studies in Phoenician.  http://www.eisenbrauns.com/item/HOLLINGUI This book has not been released yet, includes Pardee's view of the calendar of Gezer.

Morphologies of Asia and Africa.

Phonologies of Asia and Africa.

 Others (these may have been mentioned in other posts in the past):

A Syriac Lexicon. Michael Sokoloff

A Grammar of Akkadian. John Huehnergard.

Introduction to Classical Ethiopic. Lambdin.

Literate Culture and Tenth-Century Canaan.

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  • Caleb S.
    Caleb S. Member Posts: 585 ✭✭

    I'd be interested in these! [Y]

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,747 ✭✭✭

    Since Niko already recommended this, I'll add this, and pop the 6-year thread back up.

    Randall Garr's Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine (in her list above)

    https://www.amazon.com/Dialect-Geography-Syria-Palestine-2004-08-01/dp/B01HCAJ5QK 

    The more recent is about $40, but a used earlier is less than $20. And if you have the JBL journals, there's a good review in issue #106, No 3.

    A really interesting book. Garr tries to geographically (with mapping) link the semitic dialects in Palestine, looking at phonology, morphology, and syntax. And then postulates a dialectal continuum (detailed linguistic features tables) for what amounts to the 'Divided Kingdom' period.

    As the JBL review article notes, the data is pretty limited. But the information presented is quite good ... very thought provoking. I doubt Logos will get to such a volume, but the older used ones are do-able.

    Dr Heiser also noted the volume in his Realms book.

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