Amarna studies : : collected writings / / by William L. Moran ; edited by John Huehnergard and Shlomo Izre'el.

• Superior document: Harvard Semitic Museum publications
• Author: Moran, William L.
• TeilnehmendeR: Huehnergard, John.; Izre'el, Shlomo.
• Place / Publishing House: Winona Lake, Ind. : : Eisenbrauns,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Semitic Studies 54.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 363 pages)
• Notes: Includes the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Johns Hopkins, 1950) under the title: A syntactical study of the dialect of Byblos as reflected in the Amarna tablets.

In this volume are collected all of the writings Moran devoted to the Amarna letters over more than four decades, including his doctoral dissertation, which has been one of the most widely cited unpublished works in ancient Near Eastern studies. A citation index makes Professor Moran's comments on individual texts readily accessible.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- A Syntactical Study of the Dialect of Byblos As Reflected in the Amarna Tablets -- A Re-interpretation of an Amarna Letter from Byblos (EA 82) / W. F. Albright and William L. Moran -- An Unexplained Passage in an Amarna Letter from Byblos -- Rib-Adda of Byblos and the Affairs of Tyre (EA 89) / W. F. Albright and William L. Moran -- The Use of the Canaanite Infinitive Absolute as a Finite Verb in the Amarna Letters from Byblos -- New Evidence on Canaanite taqtulū(na) -- "Does Amarna Bear on Karatepe?" - An Answer -- Amarna šumma in Main Clauses -- The Scandal of the "Great Sin" at Ugarit -- Early Canaanite yaqtula -- The Hebrew Language in its Northwest Semitic Background -- *taqtul-Third Masculine Singular? -- Amarna Letters -- The Death of ʿAbdi-Aširta -- Tell El-Amarna Letters -- The Dual Personal Pronouns in Western Peripheral Akkadian -- The Syrian Scribe of the Jerusalem Amarna Letters -- Amarna Glosses -- Putative Akkadian šukammu -- duppuru (dubburu)-ṭuppuru, too? -- A Note on igi-kár, "provisions, supplies" -- Additions to the Amarna Lexicon -- Rib-Hadda: Job at Byblos? -- Join the ʿApiru or Become One? -- Amarna Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Some Reflections on Amarna Politics -- Amarna Letters -- Indexes of Text Citations.