The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 Vol. Set)

A New Edition of the Cuneiform Letters from the Site of El-Amarna Based on Collations of All Extant Tablets
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ISBN: 978-90-04-28145-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 110, 1650 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 3093 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

The El-Amarna Correspondence offers a completely new edition of the Amarna Letters based on personal inspection and reading of all the extant tablets. This edition includes new transcriptions and a translation along with an extensive introduction and glossary of the Amarna Letters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rainey, Anson F.

Schniedewind, William M.

Cochavi-Rainey, Zipora

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1
Foreword
Introduction
Discovery, Research, and Excavation of the Amarna Tablets The Formative Stage (Jana Mynárová)
Bibliography
Technical matters
The Tell el-Amarna Letters: Transcription and Translation
Glossary (Alice Mandell)
Volume 2
Introduction
Technical matters
Commentary, letter by letter
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

William M. Schniedewind is a Professor of Biblical Studies and Northwest Semitic Languages at UCLA. He holds the Kershaw Chair in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies, and he is the author of several books including A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins through the Rabbinic Period (2013).
Zipora Cochavi-Rainey, Ph.D. (1989), Beit Berl College, is Professor of Hebrew Studies at that college. She studied Semitic languages and Egyptian at Tel Aviv University. Cochavi-Rainey has published books and articles on Akkadian, including The Akkadian Dialect of the 14th to the 13th Centuries BCE AOAT 374 (Münster: Ugarit Verlag. 2011); The Akkadian Texts Written by Alashian Scribes in the 14th-13th Centuries (Munster: Ugarit Verlag. 2003). In addition, she has published books and articles detailing the literary and linguistic analysis of modern Hebrew literature.