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A Manual of Ugaritic / Pierre Bordreuil, Dennis Pardee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic ; 3Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781575066523
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 492/.6782421
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the English Edition -- Foreword, Including a Description of the Intended Audience -- Historical Introduction and Grammar -- 1. Introduction to the History and Culture of Ugarit -- 2. Writing System -- 3. Phonology -- 4. Morphology Like the other -- 5. Derivational Processes -- 6. Compounding -- 7. Syntax -- 8. Vocabulary/Lexicon -- 9. Particularities of Poetic Texts -- Abbreviations and Sigla -- Works Cited and Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Hand Copies -- Selection of Texts -- I. Mythological Texts -- II. Ritual Texts -- III. Incantations -- IV. "Scientific" Texts -- V. Letters -- VI. Legal Texts -- VII. Administrative Texts -- VIII. Abecedaries -- Concordance of Text Numbers -- Glossary
Summary: Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee are two of the best-known scholars doing research on the language and texts of the ancient city of Ugarit (modern Tell Ras Shamra). This grammar was first published in French in 2004 in two volumes; and Eisenbrauns is pleased to make it available now in a corrected and updated version, in one volume, with significant enhancements. In addition to including all of the information present in the French edition, this English edition includes a CD with a complete, hyperlinked PDF version of the grammar.The book includes a historical introduction to the texts and language, the book includes a sketch of the grammar of Ugaritic, a bibliography, facsimiles (hand-copies) of a number of texts, and a glossary and text concordance-in short, everything that a student needs for entrée into the language. On the CD, in addition to the PDF, color photos of all of the texts included in the book are provided. The hyperlinks to the PDF enable the reader to move easily from the discussion in the grammar to a copy of a text to the color photo of the text and back again, making the material much more accessible and usable for students and researchers.Pierre Bordreuil inaugurated a chair in Ugaritic at the écoles des langues et civilisations orientales at the Institut catholique de Paris. Dennis Pardee teaches in the Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the English Edition -- Foreword, Including a Description of the Intended Audience -- Historical Introduction and Grammar -- 1. Introduction to the History and Culture of Ugarit -- 2. Writing System -- 3. Phonology -- 4. Morphology Like the other -- 5. Derivational Processes -- 6. Compounding -- 7. Syntax -- 8. Vocabulary/Lexicon -- 9. Particularities of Poetic Texts -- Abbreviations and Sigla -- Works Cited and Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Hand Copies -- Selection of Texts -- I. Mythological Texts -- II. Ritual Texts -- III. Incantations -- IV. "Scientific" Texts -- V. Letters -- VI. Legal Texts -- VII. Administrative Texts -- VIII. Abecedaries -- Concordance of Text Numbers -- Glossary

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Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee are two of the best-known scholars doing research on the language and texts of the ancient city of Ugarit (modern Tell Ras Shamra). This grammar was first published in French in 2004 in two volumes; and Eisenbrauns is pleased to make it available now in a corrected and updated version, in one volume, with significant enhancements. In addition to including all of the information present in the French edition, this English edition includes a CD with a complete, hyperlinked PDF version of the grammar.The book includes a historical introduction to the texts and language, the book includes a sketch of the grammar of Ugaritic, a bibliography, facsimiles (hand-copies) of a number of texts, and a glossary and text concordance-in short, everything that a student needs for entrée into the language. On the CD, in addition to the PDF, color photos of all of the texts included in the book are provided. The hyperlinks to the PDF enable the reader to move easily from the discussion in the grammar to a copy of a text to the color photo of the text and back again, making the material much more accessible and usable for students and researchers.Pierre Bordreuil inaugurated a chair in Ugaritic at the écoles des langues et civilisations orientales at the Institut catholique de Paris. Dennis Pardee teaches in the Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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