An Eye for Form” : : Epigraphic Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross /

An Eye for Form” : : Epigraphic Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross / / ed. by Walter E. Aufrecht, Jo Ann Hackett.

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At the first meeting of his class in Northwest Semitic Epigraphy at Harvard, Frank Cross would inform students that one of the things each of them needed was an “eye for form.” By this, he meant the ability to recognize typological or evolutionary change in letters and scripts. Frank, like his teach...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Amadasi Guzzo, Maria Giulia,
Aufrecht, Walter E.,
Betlyon, John W.,
Bordreuil, Pierre,
Byrne, Ryan,
Ellison, John L.,
Eshel, Esther,
Hackett, Jo Ann,
Hamilton, Gordon J.,
Herr, Larry G.,
Lemaire, André,
Machinist, Peter,
Rollston, Christopher A.,
Schmitz, Philip C.,
Vanderhooft, David S.,
HerausgeberIn:
Aufrecht, Walter E.,
Hackett, Jo Ann,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • An Appreciation of Frank Moore Cross
  • Response by Frank Moore Cross to the Presentation of an 80th Birthday Volume of Essays
  • Bibliography of Frank Moore Cross
  • Prolegomenon to the Study of Northwest Semitic Paleography and Epigraphy
  • A History of Northwest Semitic Epigraphy
  • Reconceptualizing the Periods of Early Alphabetic Scripts
  • The Ugaritic Alphabetic Script
  • The Iron Age Phoenician Script
  • Prolegomenon to the Study of Old Aramaic and Ammonite Lapidary Inscriptions
  • Iron Age Moabite, Hebrew, and Edomite Monumental Scripts
  • On the Authenticity of Iron Age Northwest Semitic Inscribed Seals
  • Phoenician Seal Script
  • Aramaic and Ammonite Seal Scripts
  • Hebrew, Moabite, and Edomite Seal Scripts
  • Northwest Semitic Cursive Scripts of Iron II
  • Scripts of Post–Iron Age Aramaic Inscriptions and Ostraca
  • Paleo-Hebrew Texts and Scripts of the Persian Period
  • The Aramaic Papyri Scripts
  • Punic Scripts
  • Paleography of the Semitic Judean Desert Scrolls
  • Northwest Semitic Scripts on Coins
  • Indexes

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