Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781575064611
Subjects: Akkadian language; Canaanite language; Assyro-babylonian letters
Description: "The Amarna letters from Canaan offer us a unique glimpse of the historical and linguistic panorama of the Levant in the middle of the fourteenth century BCE. Their evidence regarding verbs is crucial for the historical and comparative study of the Semitic languages. Proper evaluation of this evidence requires an understanding of its scribal origin and nature. For this reason, The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan addresses the historical circumstances in which the linguistic code of the letters was born and the unique characteristics of this system."--