I’m discontinuing this blog. The content and aims are more appropriate for a website, which I have created. All the video and PowerPoint files on this blog are now part of Ancient Near Eastern Languages.COM. Please bookmark the site and come back now and again for updates!
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Charles Halton at awilum.com posted a very cool listing of online (PDF) resources for the study of Hebrew and Semitic languages compiled by Chip Hardy. Check it out!
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Check out this site for some nice videos to get started in Aramaic!
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Believe it or not, Akkadian scribes left behind bilingual dictionaries (Sumerian-Akkadian) that provided the key to later European scholars deciphering the meaning of many Sumerian words once Akkadian was cracked. These dictionaries are known as “lexical lists”. Today all major lexical texts have been published in the multi-volume set, Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon, begun by Benno Landsberger in the 1930s. We are fortunate at this time to have a whole website dedicated to them: the Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts. Here’s a link to a short article “What is a Lexical List?” found on that site.
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A pretty cool idea, and one that people can contribute to. Read all about it.
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The Duke University papyrus archive / database will be going online for public use. This is great news; read about it here.
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Due to my unrealistically busy schedule this year, I’ll be trying (able) to only post on this blog once a week with any regularity. The blog won’t be going away, though.
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The artifact in question is the “Antikythera Mechanism.” The inscription was recently discussed in the blogosphere.
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