Early history of the alphabet : : an introduction to West Semitic epigraphy and palaeography / / Joseph Naveh.
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill Academic Publishers,, 1982. |
Year of Publication: | 1982 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- I. Introduction
- 1. Inscriptions and Manuscripts
- 2. Epigraphy and Palaeography
- 3. The Development of Scripts and Script Styles
- 4. Semitic Languages and Scripts
- II. The Rise of the Semitic Script
- 1. Background
- a. Sumerian cuneiform writing
- b. Egyptian hieroglyphic script
- c. The Hittite "hieroglyphic" script
- d. The Cretan script
- e. Undeciphered scripts in Syria-Palestine
- 2. The Beginnings of the Alphabet
- III. The South Semitic Scripts
- IV. The West Semitic Scripts
- 1. The Phoenician Script
- 2. The Hebrew Script
- 3. The Aramaic Script
- 4. Comparative Aspects of the Phoenician, Hebrew and Aramaic Scripts
- 5. The Scripts of Israel's Neighbours
- 6. The Change from Hebrew to Jewish Script
- V. The Development of the Later Aramaic Offshoots
- 1. Aramaic Writing in the Iranian World
- 2. The Aramaic Script in the East
- a. The South Mesopotamian branch
- b. The North Mesopotamian branch
- c. The Palmyrene-Syriac branch
- 3. The Nabataean Script and the Rise of the Arabic Script
- 4. The Jewish Script
- VI. The Antiquity of the Greek Alphabet
- Abbreviations
- Illustrations
- Figures
- Plates
- Index
- PLATES.