Semitic writing
Subtitle: from pictograph to alphabet
By: by G. R. Driver
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: The Schweich lectures of the British Academy -- 1944; Schweich lectures -- 1944
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1954
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Semitic languages; Alphabet
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: I. Cuneiform scripts; title: Historical background; title: Source and date of the earliest inscribed tablets; title: Clay-tablets; title: Stone and metal, wood and ivory, papyrus and leather; title: Writing implements; title: The formation of pictographic and cuneiform signs; title: The arrangement of the text; title: From picture to symbol; title: From words to syllables; title: Scholars and scribes; title: Archives and libraries; title: II. Alphabetic writing; title: Means and manner of writing; title: Diffusion of writing; title: Undeciphered marks and inscriptions; title: Sinaitic inscriptions; title: Early inscribed objects; title: Cuneiform tablets; title: Phoenician inscriptions; title: Moab and Palestine; title: Aramaean documents; title: Earliest South-Semitic inscriptions; title: Problems of interpretation; title: Chronological table of Semitic inscriptions; title: III. The origin of the alphabet; title: Theories regarding the origin of the alphabet; title: The cuneiform scripts and the Phoenician alphabet; title: The Egyptian pseudo-alphabet; title: The Sinaitic script; title: The South-Semitic alphabets; title: The Ugaritic alphabet; title: The evidential value of the names of the letters; title: The relation of the form of the letter to its name; title: The forms and names of the individual letters; title: The Greek alphabet; title: The order of the letters of the alphabet; title: The time and place of the invention of the alphabet.