Northwest Semitic Inscriptions

Harvard FAS

An introduction to the Old Northwest Semitic languages (especially Old Hebrew, Old Phoenician, Moabite, and Old Aramaic), with a focus on comparative linguistic reconstruction of their grammars and reading and analysis of the major texts attested in these languages. Attention will also be given to the scripts in which these languages were written and to the early history of the alphabetic writing traditions that originated in the Levant and subsequently developed and spread throughout the…