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Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literatureby Gwendolyn Leick
Routledge 1994; US$ 41.95A fascinating book shedding light on the sexual culture of one of the earliest literate civilisations and provides a new contribution to current debates about sex, eroticism and gender. more...
A grammar of the Ugaritic languageby D. Sivan
BRILL 2001; US$ 147.00Ugaritic, discovered in 1929, is a North-West Semitic language, documented on clay tablets (about 1250 texts) and dated from the period between the 14th and the 12th centuries BCE. This text deals with the phonology, morphology and syntax of Ugaritic. more...
Semitic papyrology in contextby L.H. Schiffman
BRILL 2003; US$ 132.00A collection of studies relating to the multicultural traditions of papyrus writing in the Ancient Near East, with attention to the linguistic, literary and cultural features of these, often documentary, texts. The papers were presented at a conference marking Professor Levine's retirement. more...
Sumerian grammarby D.O. Edzard
BRILL 2003; US$ 138.00Drawing on introductory courses in Sumerian he taught for many years, Edzard (emeritus, Assyriology, Munich U.) commences his descriptive grammar of the general characteristics and specific features of the language of the inventors of cuneiform writing with his views on the "hopeless" debate over the language's linguistic affiliation. After describ more...
Colloquial Hebrewby Zippi Lyttleton; Tamar Wang
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 28.95Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study and class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Hebrew. No prior knowledge of the language is required. more...
A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntaxby Bill T. Arnold; John H. Choi
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 19.00This textbook defines the fundamental syntactical features of the Hebrew Bible, illustrates these features with examples from the Bible, and provides English translations. more...
Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabicby Ur Shlonsky
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 110.00Looking at the grammars of Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic, Shlonsky examines clausal architecture and verb movement and the role of agreement in natural language, using Chomsky's Government and Binding approach. more...
Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrewby Dorit Diskin Ravid
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 55.00Tracing the language development in Hebrew-speakers from childhood to adulthood, this study focuses on inflectional morphology (the grammatical form of words). It explores strategies of language acquisition in speakers of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. more...
Reading Hebrewby Joseph Shimron
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2005; US$ 95.00As the worldwide demand for literacy continues, researchers from different countries with different language backgrounds have begun examining the connection between their language and writing system and literacy acquisition. This volume is part of this new, emerging field of research. more...
Comparative Semitic Philology in the Middle Agesby Aharon Maman; David Lyons
BRILL 2004; US$ 243.00This volume deals with medieval comparative Semitic philology (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) as practised by Hebrew philologists in the Arabic speaking lands, from Iraq to Spain, discussing its development through the generations (10th-12th cent. CE), its technics and its theoretical basis. more...