Kanaanaische und aramaische Inschriften.(Kanaanaische und aramaische Inschriften, vol. 1, 5th ed.)(Book Review)

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: Rollston, Christopher A. | Copyright information

Kanaanaische und aramaische Inschriften, vol. 1. Fifth expanded and revised ed. By HERBERT DONNER and WOLFGANG ROLLIG. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2002. Pp. xviii + 79. [euro]24.80 (paper).

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mark Lidzbarski's Handbuch der nordsemitischen Epigraphik (Weimar, 1898) and G. A. Cooke's A Text-Book of North-Semitic Inscriptions (Oxford, 1903) were the most useful and authoritative handbooks of Northwest Semitic inscr...

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