Scribal Practices http://michaelsheiser.com/ScribalPractices Learning and discussing the languages of the Bible and the ancient Near East Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:39:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Recent Sumerian Lexicon review http://michaelsheiser.com/ScribalPractices/2008/09/recent-sumerian-lexicon-review/ http://michaelsheiser.com/ScribalPractices/2008/09/recent-sumerian-lexicon-review/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:39:43 +0000 MSH http://michaelsheiser.com/ScribalPractices/?p=43

Here’s a recent book review of John Halloran’s Sumerian lexicon, which is the revised and expanded print version of his online lexicon:

John Halloran (ed.), Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language (Oakville, Conn.: David Brown, 2006); pp. xiv + 318; Paperback; $79

Description: With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient Sumerian vocabulary. It replaces version 3 of the author’s Sumerian Lexicon, which has served an audience of over 380,000 visitors at the web site www.sumerian.org since 1999. This published version adds over 2,600 new entries, and corrects or expands many of the previous entries. Also, following the express wish of a majority of online lexicon users, it has merged together and sorted the logogram words and the compound words into purely alphabetical order. This book will be an indispensable reference for anyone trying to translate Sumerian texts. Also, due to the historical position of ancient Sumer as the world’s first urban civilization, cultural and linguistic archaeologists will discover a wealth of information for research.

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The fonts are unnecessary for the video.

Both files have also been archived in their respective indexes on this site.

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]]> http://michaelsheiser.com/ScribalPractices/2008/07/egyptian-hieroglyphs-in-australia/feed/ Free Download of Bibliography of Sumerian Grammar http://michaelsheiser.com/ScribalPractices/2008/07/free-download-of-bibliography-of-sumerian-grammar/ http://michaelsheiser.com/ScribalPractices/2008/07/free-download-of-bibliography-of-sumerian-grammar/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:13:28 +0000 MSH http://michaelsheiser.com/ScribalPractices/?p=34 Courtesy of the awilum.com blog by Charles Halton. Follow the link.

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