Description
Book SynopsisSemitic words and names appear in unprecedented numbers in texts of the New Kingdom, the period when the Egyptian empire extended into Syria-Palestine. In his book, James Hoch provides a comprehensive account of these words--their likely origins, their contexts, and their implications for the study of Egyptian and Semitic linguistics and Late-Bronze and Iron-Age culture in the eastern Mediterranean. Unlike previous word catalogs, this work consists of concise word studies and contains a wealth of linguistic, lexical, and cultural information.
Hoch considers some five hundred Semitic words found in Egyptian texts from about 1500 to 650 b.c.e. Building on previous scholarship, he proposes new etymologies and translations and discusses phonological, morphological, and semantic factors that figure in the use of these words. The Egyptian evidence is essential to an understanding of the phonology of Northwest Semitic, and Hoch presents a major reconstruction of the phonemic systems
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"This very substantial volume is a major contribution to our understanding and interpretation of the wide variety of Semitic words ... to be found in ancient Egyptian texts."--Philology and Grammar
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsList of tablesAbbreviations and SiglaIntroduction3Pt. IThe Semitic Words15Pt. IIAnalyses and Conclusions3971Phonology3992Morphology4383Domain of Use4604The Genres of Texts4745The Source Languages4796The Development of Group Writing487Appendix: Catalogue of Signs505Bibliography513Word Indexes533Name Indexes563
