The Pitfalls of Typology: On the Early History of the Alphabet

The orthography of the Aramaic text of the recently discovered Aramaic-Assyrian bilingual inscription from Tel Fakhariyah in Northeast Syria has implications of fundamental importance for the applicability of the typological method to ancient Northwest Semitic epigraphy, for the antiquity and origin...

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Main Author: Kaufman, Stephen A. 194X- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: HUC 1987
In: Hebrew Union College annual
Year: 1986, Volume: 57, Pages: 1-14
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