The invention of Hebrew
By: Seth L. Sanders.
Series: Traditions
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780252032844
Subjects: Bible -- O.T. -- Language, style; Hebrew language -- History; Inscriptions, Hebrew -- Palestine; Semitic languages, Northwest; Ugaritic literature -- History and criticism; Ugaritic literature -- Relation to the Old Testament; Assyro-Babylonian literature -- History and criticism; Assyro-Babylonian literature -- Relation to the Old Testament
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernity's ghosts: the Bible as political communication; title: What was the alphabet for?; title: Empires and alphabets in late Bronze age Canaan; title: The invention of Hebrew in Iron age Israel.