Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>]

There are a series of Akkadian grammars in English, one by Kaspar
Riemschneider. I only have the german original, Lehrbuch des Alladischen, 5.
Aufl. Leipzig 1988. I have used it several times in the classroom and with
good results although at the end you gt bored because of all the omen texts
(if such material is not your preferred reading). Second, a short one by
Richard Caplice, Introduction to Akkadian, 3. ed, Rome, Biblical Institute,
1988. It is short and probably a very reasonable first introduction. The
third is recent and very comprehensive, John Hühnergard, A Grammar of
Akkadian, Atlanta, Scholars, 1997. If I ever again have a class in
Akkadfian, I will use this volume.

About the patriarchs. You are probably right, although Dtn 26 only speaks
about 'my father', and not 'my fathers'.

NPL


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> Sent: Wednesday, 05 January, 2000 04:36
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> Subject:      Re[4]: Ur Kasdim II
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> Subject: Re[3]: Ur Kasdim II
> Author:  <npl AT teol.ku.dk> at Internet
> Date:    04/01/2000 17:49
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> GAG, W. von Soden, Grudriss der akkadischen Grammatik, 1952, 2. ed. 1969, 
> still the standard Ggrammer of Akkadian. I guess that Safran means 
> Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian.
> 
> PK: Thank you. I must learn some Akkadian sometime. Is there any good 
> introductory grammar in English?
> 
> The argument about Ur-Kasdim as an anachronism has been around for several
> 
> generations of scholars. I do not know who proposed it the first time.
> Maybe 
> Westermann has it.
> 
> PK: Sometimes the oldest ideas are the best ones!
> 
> NPL
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> <snip>
> 
> > On the other hand, we have the data, new to this thread, that
> > according to Deuteronomy 26:5 Abraham was an Aramean [Niels Peter
> Lemche] 
> > No, it is Jacob who became a great nation.
> 
> PK: True, probably, if so my mistake. On the other hand, did Jacob get 
> his nationality from his mother or his wives? Even if that is modern 
> Jewish law, it doesn't seem to have been the custom reflected in 
> Genesis, e.g. Ishmael, Ephraim and Manasseh are not reckoned as 
> Egyptians. No, I guess the implication from Deuteronomy is that all of 
> the patriarchs considered Arameans.
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> <snip>
> 
> Peter Kirk
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