Semitic Writing - From Pictograph to Alphabet

Zusammenfassung This is the third edition of the late Sir Godfrey Driver's Schweich Lectures, first delivered in 1944. The present edition is based on extensive revisions and additions made by the author himself.The third edition takes account of research and discoveries in the fields of Semitic epigraphy and the theory of writing. It deals with cuneiform scripts, the origins of alphabetic writing, its development from the earliest records until its transmission to the Greeks, and covers all the more important North-Semitic inscriptions. Theories regarding forms of letters, their names, place in the alphabetical sequence etc. are discussed at length.

Product details

• Authors: G R Driver, G. R. Driver, Godfrey Rolles Driver, DRIVER GODFREY ROLLES
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2005
• EAN: 9780197259177
• ISBN: 978-0-19-725917-7
• No. of pages: 362
• Series: Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology; Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Middle East, Ancient / Biblical Israel, Archaeology by period / region, Palaeography (History Of Writing), BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Biblical Archaeology, Palaeography