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A Manual of Ugaritic
Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee are two of the best-known
scholars doing research on the language and texts of the ancient
city of Ugarit (modern Tell Ras Shamra). This grammar was first
published in French in 2004 in two volumes; and Eisenbrauns is
pleased to make it available now in a corrected and updated
version, in one volume, with significant enhancements. In addition
to including all of the information present in the French edition,
this English edition includes a CD with a complete, hyperlinked PDF
version of the grammar.
The book includes a historical introduction to the texts and
language, the book includes a sketch of the grammar of Ugaritic, a
bibliography, facsimiles (hand-copies) of a number of texts, and a
glossary and text concordance-in short, everything that a student
needs for entrée into the language. On the CD, in addition to the
PDF, color photos of all of the texts included in the book are
provided. The hyperlinks to the PDF enable the reader to move
easily from the discussion in the grammar to a copy of a text to
the color photo of the text and back again, making the material
much more accessible and usable for students and researchers.
Pierre Bordreuil inaugurated a chair in Ugaritic at the écoles
des langues et civilisations orientales at the Institut catholique
de Paris. Dennis Pardee teaches in the Dept. of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations at the Oriental Institute of the
University of Chicago.
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A Grammar of the Ugaritic Language
Ugaritic, discovered in 1929, is a North-West Semitic language, documented on clay tablets and dated between the 14th and the 12th centuries B.C.E. The documents are of various types: literary, administrative, lexicological. The administrative documents shed light on the organization of Ugarit, thus contributing greatly to our understanding of the history and culture of the biblical and North-West Semitic world. This important reference work deals with the phonology, morphology and syntax of Ugaritic and contains an appendix with text selections.
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Ugaritic economic tablets : text, translation and notes
Ugaritic Economic Tablets: Text, Translation and Notes provides new translations of more than 800 Late Bronze Age economic texts written in the alphabetic script of the Syrian city of Ugarit. Each translation is accompanied by transliteration as well as commentary, textual notes and up-to-date bibliography. The texts are grouped according to findspot and indexed by both publication numbers and excavation numbers allowing for easy reference. An extended introduction discusses some of the grammatical and historical problems with interpreting these texts. Produced as a companion volume to McGeough's Exchange Relationships at Ugarit and edited by Mark S. Smith, this volume will be of use to Ugaritic specialists, Near Eastern studies and Biblical scholars, historians of ancient economics, and students new to Ugaritic studies or economic history/anthropology.
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Ugaritic
HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTSUgaritic is the only well-attested example known today of the West Semitic languages spoken in the Levantine area in the second millennium BC. The position of Ugaritic among the Semitic languages has been a matter of dispute, in part because of a confusion of categories, namely between literary and linguistic criteria. Literarily, the poetic texts show strong formal (poetic parallelism), lexical, and thematic affinities with Biblical Hebrew poetry. Linguistically, however, Ugaritic is considerably more archaic than any of the well-attested Northwest Semitic languages, and probably descends directly from a Levantine “Amorite” dialect. All indications are that it is not more directly related to East Semitic (Akkadian) than to West Semitic. Within the latter branch, it shares certain important isoglosses with Northwest Semitic as opposed to Arabic (e.g., roots Iw → Iy) and with Canaanite as opposed to Aramaic (e.g., /ḍ/ → /ṣ/). The isoglosses shared with Arabic (e.g., consonantal inventory) represent for the most part features commonly inherited from Proto-Semitic.Ugaritic is a one-period language, attested only for the last part of the Late Bronze Age, approximately 1300–1190 BC. This is because the writing system in which known Ugaritic texts are inscribed was not invented (at least according to present data) until the early thirteenth century, whereas the city of Ugarit – virtually the only site where Ugaritic texts have been discovered – was destroyed early in the twelfth century.
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Motion, Voice, and Mood in the Semitic Verb
This book explores the relationship between the so-called
ventive morpheme in Akkadian ( -am ) and the related
suffixes -n and -a in other Semitic languages,
including Amarna Canaanite, Ugaritic, Hebrew, and Arabic. Using
formal reconstructions of the various morphemes and a functional
analysis of their different usages, Ambjörn Sjörs convincingly
argues that these endings are cognate morphemes that were formally
and functionally related to the ventive morpheme in Akkadian.
Sjörs provides a systematic description of non-allative ventive
verbs in Old Babylonian, the energic and volitive in Amarna
Canaanite, the energic and lengthened prefix conjugation in
Ugaritic, the lengthened imperfect consecutive in Biblical Hebrew,
and the subjunctive and energic in Classical Arabic. Sjörs explains
how these verb forms were used within the framework of
grammaticalization theory and demonstrates how the suffixes are
historically related.
Clearly and persuasively argued, Motion, Voice, and Mood in
the Semitic Verb sheds valuable light on the Akkadian ventive
and its relationship to the other related morphemes. It will be
welcomed by linguists specializing in Akkadian, Amarna Canaanite,
Ugaritic, Hebrew, and Arabic.
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