Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets: A Linguistic Analysis of the Mixed Dialect used by Scribes from Canaan.(Review)

The Journal of the American Oriental Society | October 1, 1998| | Copyright

By ANSON F. RAINEY. Four volumes. Handbuch der Orientalistik, erste Abteilung, vol. 21. Leiden: E. J. BRILL 1996. Pp. xxii + 204; xxx + 416; xxii + 280; vi + 198. HFl 604, $390.

The title under review here is the result of over twenty years of research on the Amarna letters, starting in 1969 when the author obtained a copy of W. L. Moran's unpublished dissertation on the verbal system in the Byblos letters (vol. 1, p. xv). In its four volumes every aspect of the grammar of the Akkadian written by the scribes in Canaan is thoroughly treated and usually put in a wider ...

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