Semitic Writing

From Pictograph to Alphabet

G R Driver (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

362 Seiten

1976
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-725917-7 (ISBN)

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This is the third edition of the late Sir Godfrey Driver's Schweich Lectures, first delivered in 1944. The present edition is based on extensive revisions and additions made by the author himself.

The third edition takes account of research and discoveries in the fields of Semitic epigraphy and the theory of writing. It deals with cuneiform scripts, the origins of alphabetic writing, its development from the earliest records until its transmission to the Greeks, and covers all the more important North-Semitic inscriptions. Theories regarding forms of letters, their names, place in the alphabetical sequence etc. are discussed at length.

CUNEIFORM SCRIPTS ; ALPHABETIC WRITING ; THE ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABET

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.9.2005
Reihe/Serie	Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology
Zusatzinfo	66pp plates
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 239 mm
Gewicht	678 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Paläografie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-725917-0 / 0197259170
ISBN-13	978-0-19-725917-7 / 9780197259177
Zustand	Neuware