The very readable and affordable recent introduction to Biblical Hebrew and
related languages, "Beyond Babel", SBL 2002, chose to focus on "the most
significant" languages - and left out Eblaite (its introduction treats
Eblaite as a sub-group of Esat Semitic next to Akkadian).
The top-notch (but obscenely expensive) volume ed. by the late R. Hetzron,
"Semitic Languages", Routledge 1997, has a 14-page chapter (incl. bibliog.)
by Cyrus H. Gordon on "Amorite and Eblaite".
I don't know of anything more recent or comprehensive for the non-specialist,
but then I've done no very thorough research.
kol tuv
Soren, Copenhagen
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> Emne: [b-hebrew] Eblaite - Ebla, What has become of everything?
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> Dear Members of the board,
>
> I wonder if there are any of you who are familiar with the developments of
> the 17000 tablets that were found in the 1975 time in Syria. I have tried
> searching for detailed info on the web about the translations and any
> information they can provide about the hebrew language etc.
>
> Mostly what i read is political problems with the Syrian officials and brief
> VERY BRIEF explanation about what these tablets can tell us.
>
> Does anyone know anything please?
>
> regards, Chris, Ireland.
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