TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gzella,Holger
TI  - Languages from the World of the Bible
SN  - 9781934078631
AV  - PJ25 .L36 2012eb
U1  - 492 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Middle Eastern literature
KW  - Relation to the New Testament
KW  - Relation to the Old Testament
KW  - Middle Eastern philology
KW  - Semitic philology
KW  - Alphabet
KW  - Altorient
KW  - Ancient Near East
KW  - Hebrew Bible
KW  - Hebräische Bibel
KW  - Indo-European Languages
KW  - Indoeuropäische Sprachen
KW  - Semitic Languages
KW  - Semitische Sprachen
KW  - Buchstabenschrift
KW  - gnd
KW  - Orientalische Sprachen
KW  - RELIGION / Biblical Reference / Language Study
KW  - bisacsh
N1  -  Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface /; Gzella, Holger --; On Transcription --; Abbreviations --; Introduction /; Gzella, Holger --; The Alphabet /; Millard, Alan --; Ugaritic /; Gianto, Agustinus --; Phoenician /; Gzella, Holger --; Ancient Hebrew /; Gzella, Holger --; The Languages of Transjordan /; Beyer, Klaus --; Old and Imperial Aramaic /; Folmer, Margaretha --; Old South Arabian /; Hasselbach, Rebecca --; Old Persian /; Vaan, Michiel de / Lubotsky, Alexander --; Greek /; Willi, Andreas --; West Semitic and Greek letterforms --; Maps --; Index; Open Access
N2  - The breakthrough of the alphabetic script early in the first millennium BCE coincides with the appearance of several new languages and civilizations in ancient Syria-Palestine. Together, they form the cultural setting in which ancient Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and, transformed by Hellenism, the New Testament took shape. This book contains concise yet thorough and lucid overviews of ancient Near Eastern languages united by alphabetic writing and illuminates their interaction during the first 1000 years of their attestation. All chapters are informed by the most recent scholarship, contain fresh insights, provide numerous examples from the most pertinent sources, and share a clear historical framework that makes it easier to trace processes of contact and convergence in this highly diversified speech area. They also address non-specialists. The following topics are discussed: Alphabetic writing (A. Millard), Ugaritic (A. Gianto), Phoenician and Hebrew (H. Gzella), Transjordanian languages (K. Beyer), Old and Imperial Aramaic (M. Folmer), Epigraphic South Arabian (R. Hasselbach), Old Persian (M. de Vaan/A. Lubotsky), Greek (A. Willi)
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781934078631
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