Full Description
Akkadian is, after Sumerian, the second oldest language attested in the Ancient Near East, as well as the oldest known Semitic language. It is also a language with one of history's longest written records. And yet, unlike other relevant languages written over a long period of time, there has been no volume dedicated to its own history. The aim of the present work is to fill that void. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors and divided into two volumes, the first covering the linguistic background and early periods and the second covering the second and first millennia BCE as well as its afterlife.
Contents
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations: Bibliographical
Other Abbreviations and Conventions
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Introduction
1 Research on the Akkadian Language
Michael P. Streck
Part 2 Teaching and Writing Akkadian in the Ancient Near East
2 Teaching Akkadian in the Ancient Near East
Alexandra Kleinerman
3 Akkadian and Cuneiform
Michael P. Streck
4 Akkadian and Alphabetic Cuneiform
Carole Roche-Hawley and Robert Hawley
5 Akkadian and the Greek Alphabet (Graeco-Babyloniaca)
Martin Lang
Part 3 Akkadian: Some General Trends of Its Development
6 Classification of Akkadian within the Semitic Family
Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
7 Historical Morphology of Akkadian
N.J.C. Kouwenberg
8 A Historical Overview of Akkadian Morphosyntax
Ilya Arkhipov, Maksim Kalinin and Sergey Loesov
9 A History of the Akkadian Lexicon
Leonid Kogan and Manfred Krebernik
10 A History of Akkadian Onomastics
Regine Pruzsinszky
Part 4 Akkadian in the Fourth and Third Millennia BCE
11 Old Akkadian
Walter Sommerfeld
12 Eblaite
Leonid Kogan and Manfred Krebernik
Part 5 Akkadian in the Second Millennium BCE: Akkadian in Mesopotamia
13 Old Babylonian
Michael P. Streck
14 Middle Babylonian
Wilfred H. van Soldt
15 Old Assyrian
N.J.C. Kouwenberg
16 Middle Assyrian
Stefan Jakob
Part 6 Akkadian in the Second Millennium BCE: Peripheral Akkadian
17 Akkadian and the Amorites
Dominique Charpin
18 Akkadian in Syria and Canaan
Juan-Pablo Vita
19 Akkadian and the Hittites
Gary Beckman
20 Akkadian in Egypt
Matthias Müller
21 Akkadian in Elam
Florence Malbran-Labat
Part 7 Akkadian in the First Millennium BCE
22 Neo-Assyrian
Frederick M. Fales
23 (Early) Neo-Babylonian
Christian W. Hess
24 Late Babylonian
Johannes Hackl
25 The Death of Akkadian as a Written and Spoken Language
Johannes Hackl
Part 8 Afterlife: Akkadian after Akkadian
26 The Legacy of Akkadian
John Huehnergard
Index of Personal Names
Index of Divine Names
Index of Geographical Names
Index of Texts Cited
Index of Subjects
