Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan
An edition of Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan (2016)
By Krzysztof J. Baranowski
Publish Date
2016
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Language
eng
Pages
296
Description:
"The Amarna letters from Canaan offer us a unique glimpse of the historical and linguistic panorama of the Levant in the middle of the fourteenth century BCE. Their evidence regarding verbs is crucial for the historical and comparative study of the Semitic languages. Proper evaluation of this evidence requires an understanding of its scribal origin and nature. For this reason, The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan addresses the historical circumstances in which the linguistic code of the letters was born and the unique characteristics of this system."--