Semitic writing from pictograph to alphabet
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Semitic writing from pictograph to alphabet
（Schweich lectures, 1944）
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1976
Newly rev. ed. / edited by S.A. Hopkins
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Semitic writing
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"Third edition"--Spine
"First published in 1948 and the present edition is based on extensive revisions and additions made by the author himself"--Front flap of dust jacket
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- CUNEIFORM SCRIPTS
- ALPHABETIC WRITING
- THE ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABET
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