Personal Names In Cuneiform Texts From Babylonia C 750 100 Bce
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Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE)
Author: Caroline Waerzeggers
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2024-01-18
An introduction to the linguistic diversity of personal names in cuneiform texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE).
Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE)
Author: Caroline Waerzeggers
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2024-01-18
Personal names provide fascinating testimony to Babylonia's multi-ethnic society. This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well as involuntarily across the ancient Middle East, leaving traces of their presence in the archives of institutions and private persons in southern Mesopotamia. The multilingual nature of this name material poses challenges for students and researchers who want to access these data as part of their exploration of the social history of the region in the period. This volume offers guidelines and tools that will help readers navigate this difficult material. The title is also available Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew
Author: Aaron D. Hornkohl
language: en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date: 2024-11-11
According to the standard periodisation of ancient Hebrew, the division of Biblical Hebrew as reflected in the Masoretic tradition is basically dichotomous: pre-exilic Classical Biblical Hebrew (CBH) versus post-Restoration Late Biblical Hebrew (LBH). Within this paradigm, the chronolectal unity of CBH is rarely questioned—this despite the reasonable expectation that the language of a corpus encompassing traditions of various ages and comprising works composed, edited, and transmitted over the course of centuries would show signs of diachronic development. From the perspective of historical evolution, CBH is remarkably homogenous. Within this apparent uniformity, however, there are indeed signs of historical development, sets of alternant features whose respective concentrations seem to divide CBH into two sub-chronolects. The most conspicuous typological division that emerges is between the CBH of the Pentateuch and that of the relevant Prophets and Writings. The present volume investigates a series of features that distinguish the two ostensible CBH sub-chronolects, weighs alternative explanations for distribution patterns that appear to have chronological significance, and considers broader implications for Hebrew diachrony and periodisation and for the composition of the Torah.