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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.

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Author:   G R Driver
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.678kg
ISBN:  

9780197259177

ISBN 10:   0197259170
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   30 December 1976
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Cuneiform Scripts 1: Historical background 2: Spource and date of the earliest inscribed tablets 3: Clay-tablets 4: Stone and metal, wood and ivory, papyrus and leather 5: Writing implements 6: The formation of pictographic and cuneiform signs 7: The arrangement of the text 8: From picture to symbol 9: From words to syllables 10: Scholars and scribes 11: Archives and libraries Alphabetic Writing 1: Means and manner of writing 2: Diffusion of writing 3: Undeciphered marks and inscriptions 4: Sinaitic inscriptions 5: Early inscribed objects 6: Cuneiform tablets 7: Phoenician inscriptions 8: Moab and Palestine 9: Aramaean documents 10: Earliest South-Semitic inscriptions 11: Problems of interpretation Chronological table of Semitic inscriptions The Origin of the Alphabet 1: Theories regarding the origin of the alphabet 2: The cuneiform scripts and the Phoenician alphabet 3: The Egyptian pseudo-alphabet 4: The Sinaitic script 5: The South-Semitic alphabets 6: The Ugaritic alphabet 7: The evidential value of the names of the letters 8: The relation of the form of the letter to its name 9: The forms and names of the individual letters 10: The Greek alphabet 11: The order of the letters of the alphabet 12: The time and place of the invention of the alphabet

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