The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 Vol. Set) - A New Edition of the Cuneiform Letters from the Site of El-Amarna Based on Collations of All Extant Tablets

A new critical edition of the el-Amarna Letters based on personal examination of all the tablets.

About the author

William M. Schniedewind is a Professor of Biblical Studies and Northwest Semitic Languages at UCLA. He holds the Kershaw Chair in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies, and he is the author of several books including A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins through the Rabbinic Period (2013).
Zipora Cochavi-Rainey, Ph.D. (1989), Beit Berl College, is Professor of Hebrew Studies at that college. She studied Semitic languages and Egyptian at Tel Aviv University. Cochavi-Rainey has published books and articles on Akkadian, including The Akkadian Dialect of the 14th to the 13th Centuries BCE AOAT 374 (Münster: Ugarit Verlag. 2011); The Akkadian Texts Written by Alashian Scribes in the 14th-13th Centuries (Munster: Ugarit Verlag. 2003). In addition, she has published books and articles detailing the literary and linguistic analysis of modern Hebrew literature.

Product details

• Authors: Anson F Rainey, Anson F. Rainey
• Assisted by: Zipora Cochavi-Rainey (Editor), William M Schniedewind (Editor), William M. Schniedewind (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2014
• EAN: 9789004281455
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28145-5
• No. of pages: 1676
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 244 mm x 81 mm
• Weight: 3093 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity