Reading Northwest Semitic Inscriptions From: Near Eastern Archaeology | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: Demsky, Aaron | Copyright American Schools of Oriental Research Jun 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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The following essay is the response by Prof. Aaron Demsky to a request made by Christopher Rollston (at the time, ASOR vice president of publications) and Andrew Vaughn (one of NEA's co-editors). Rollston and Vaughn requested that several senior scholars reflect on how the field of epigraphy has changed in the last thirty to forty years. Responses were received from Demsky as well as Profs. André Lemaire and K. Lawson Younger. The resp...

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