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Title: A Grammar of Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies 45) by John Huehnergard ISBN: 1-57506-905-9 Publisher: Eisenbrauns Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Studying Akkadian can't be easier
Comment: - Very easy to study.
- Nice simple language.
- Makes you feel you are making progress quickly. I'm in lesson8 now, and I already have the feeling that I can speak Akkadian.
- Smart and well prepared exercises.
Many thanks for Dr.Huehnergard for this awesome work!!
Rating: 5
Summary: First Rate
Comment: If you're studying (or thinking of studying) Akkadian in a university setting, you don't need anyone to recommend a text for you. But if you're thinking about studying Akkadian on your own, look no further.
I'm not an academic, and I have no professional qualifications to judge this work. But I enjoy languages, and I know what works for me. This book is just about perfect for the student learning on his/her own. (To get full benefit, you really need to buy the companion "Key to a Grammar of Akkadian", by the same author.) The grammar is divided into graded lessons, and each lesson introduces 2 or 3 grammatical points. These are followed by vocabulary and exercises to test your command of the grammar just learned. Translation exercises from Akkadian to English, and English to Akkadian follow. (The format is very similar to that used by Lambdin in his excellent grammars of Biblical Hebrew, Coptic, and Ge'ez.) Again, the "Key to the Grammar" is indispensable; by checking your answers against the key, you'll know if you've mastered the grammar. No previous knowledge of linguistics or any other Semitic language is assumed.
After about 10 lessons, he introduces cuneiform signs, and thereafter, each lesson has a number of short readings provided in cuneiform. It's a little daunting at first...in my earlier stabs at Akkadian, I had only seen the (simpler) Neo-Assyrian versions of the signs. The author gives 3 varieties of each sign: the Old Babylonian lapidary form, the OB cursive form, and the Neo-Assyrian form.
Learning Akkadian is no easy task. This is a big book, and it's probably going to take me over a year to get through it. But the material is presented in a very accessible and straightforward manner, and each lesson builds on the material learned before. If you enjoy the intellectual challenge of learning a dead language, you'll love this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Masterful
Comment: This is the cleanest presentation of Akkadian for the student that I have yet seen. It is a masterful presentation that provides a sound and solid footing for further education and research, considerably delaying continuing students' need to subject themselves to the far more opaque (and less current) works of Ungnad and Gelb. The availability of a key to the exercises in this book makes learning Akkadian available even to those who wish to master this language on their own. (q.v., ISBN: 0788504274) For learning Akkadian, this is THE text!
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Title: Workbook of Cuneiform Signs by D. Snell ISBN: 0890030588 Publisher: Undena Publications Pub. Date: June, 1979 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: A Manual of Akkadian by David Marcus ISBN: 0819106089 Publisher: University Press of America Pub. Date: 18 September, 1978 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Assyrian Grammar: An Elementary Grammar; With Full Syllabary; And Progressive Reading Book of the Assyrian Language, in the Cuneiform Ty by A. H. Sayce ISBN: 1579109659 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Cuneiform (Reading the Past, Vol 3) by C. B. F. Walker ISBN: 0520061152 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: August, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.47 |
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Title: Introductory Assyrian Grammar by Samuel A. B. Mercer ISBN: 048642815X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 03 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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