Semitic and Assyrilological Studies Presented to Pelio Fronzaroli - Hardcover

Catagnoti, Amalia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3447047496 ISBN 13: 9783447047494

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003

Synopsis

This substantial volume comprises almost fifty Semitic and Assyrological studies dedicated to Pelio Fronzaroli, professor of Semitic philology at the University of Florence, written by colleagues and pupils. The essays, which include Italian, English, French and German works, are mostly specialised philological analyses of Near Eastern languages and texts drawn from a wide range of genres. Sumerian, Argonic, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Semitic, Old Syrian, Hittite, Old Babylonian, Akkadian languages and texts are discussed along with more thematic considerations of religion, trade and business, Amarna officialdom, mythology and cosmology and the development of language. A knowledge of the languages discussed is assumed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 3447047496
• ISBN 13: 9783447047494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 697