History of the Akkadian language / / edited by Juan-Pablo Vita.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 152
• TeilnehmendeR: Vita, Juan-Pablo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 152.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Akkadian is, after Sumerian, the second oldest language attested in the Ancient Near East, as well as the oldest known Semitic language. It is also a language with one of history's longest written records. And yet, unlike other relevant languages written over a long period of time, there has been no volume dedicated to its own history. The aim of the present work is to fill that void. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors and divided into two volumes, the first covering the linguistic background and early periods and the second covering the second and first millennia BCE as well as its afterlife.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Figures and Tables -- ‎Abbreviations: Bibliographical -- ‎Other Abbreviations and Conventions -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Part 1. Introduction -- ‎Chapter 1. Research on the Akkadian Language (Streck) -- ‎Part 2. Teaching and Writing Akkadian in the Ancient Near East -- ‎Chapter 2. Teaching Akkadian in the Ancient Near East (Kleinerman) -- ‎Chapter 3. Akkadian and Cuneiform (Streck) -- ‎Chapter 4. Akkadian and Alphabetic Cuneiform (Roche-Hawley and Hawley) -- ‎Chapter 5. Akkadian and the Greek Alphabet (Graeco-Babyloniaca) (Lang) -- ‎Part 3. Akkadian Some General Trends of Its Development -- ‎Chapter 6. Classification of Akkadian within the Semitic Family (Hasselbach-Andee) -- ‎Chapter 7. Historical Morphology of Akkadian (Kouwenberg) -- ‎Chapter 8. A Historical Overview of Akkadian Morphosyntax (Arkhipov, Kalinin and Loesov) -- ‎Chapter 9. A History of the Akkadian Lexicon (Kogan and Krebernik) -- ‎Chapter 10. A History of Akkadian Onomastics (Pruzsinszky) -- ‎Part 4. Akkadian in the Fourth and Third Millennia BCE -- ‎Chapter 11. Old Akkadian (Sommerfeld) -- ‎Chapter 12. Eblaite (Kogan and Krebernik) -- ‎Part 5. Akkadian in the Second Millennium BCE Akkadian in Mesopotamia -- ‎Chapter 13. Old Babylonian (Streck) -- ‎Chapter 14. Middle Babylonian (van Soldt) -- ‎Chapter 15. Old Assyrian (Kouwenberg) -- ‎Chapter 16. Middle Assyrian (Jakob) -- ‎Part 6. Akkadian in the Second Millennium BCE Peripheral Akkadian -- ‎Chapter 17. Akkadian and the Amorites (Charpin) -- ‎Chapter 18. Akkadian in Syria and Canaan (Vita) -- ‎Chapter 19. Akkadian and the Hittites (Beckman) -- ‎Chapter 20. Akkadian in Egypt (Müller) -- ‎Chapter 21. Akkadian in Elam (Malbran-Labat) -- ‎Part 7. Akkadian in the First Millennium BCE -- ‎Chapter 22. Neo-Assyrian (Fales) -- ‎Chapter 23. (Early) Neo-Babylonian (Hess).

‎Chapter 24. Late Babylonian (Hackl) -- ‎Chapter 25. The Death of Akkadian as a Written and Spoken Language (Hackl) -- ‎Part 8. Afterlife Akkadian after Akkadian -- ‎Chapter 26. The Legacy of Akkadian (Huehnergard) -- ‎Index of Personal Names -- ‎Index of Divine Names -- ‎Index of Geographical Names -- ‎Index of Subjects -- ‎Index of Texts Cited.