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Studia Alphabetica: On the Origin and Early History of the Northwest Semitic, South Semitic and Greek Alphabets

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1991
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Sass, B. (1991). Studia Alphabetica: On the Origin and Early History of the Northwest Semitic, South Semitic and Greek Alphabets (Vol. 102). Universitätsverlag / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

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This book touches on aspects, chiefly chronological ones, that are relevant to the emergence of the Northwest Semitic, South Semitic and Greek alphabets. In chapter two a conceptual and chronological link is suggested between the Middle Kingdom system of transliterating Semitic names and the birth of the Northwest Semitic alphabet. Chapter three traces the early development of the South Semitic scripts in finds from Arabia, Mesopotamia and the Levant, in search of the period most suitable for the emergence of the alphabet in the kingd

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  • Sass, Benjamin

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Freiburg, Switzerland / Göttingen, Germany

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Universitätsverlag / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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English

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1991

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Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis

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102

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Number of pages
124

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3-7278-0729-6

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Digitalisat erstellt durch Florina Tischhauser, Religionswissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Zürich

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Sass, B. (1991). Studia Alphabetica: On the Origin and Early History of the Northwest Semitic, South Semitic and Greek Alphabets (Vol. 102). Universitätsverlag / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

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