Essential Resources for Learning Ancient Hebrew
PRINT MATERIALS Ancient Hebrew is chiefly known today as the language of the Hebrew Bible, i.e. the Tanakh (in Christian circles also referred to as the Hebrew Bible or Old…
Resources for Learning Akkadian
Akkadian was the lingua franca of the ancient Near East for well over a thousand years. It exploded in popularity after the c. 2300 BCE conquest of Sumer by Sargon…
Resources for Learning Sumerian
While Sumerian is the oldest recorded language, our knowledge of it is relatively recent. In deciphering Akkadian, scholars had suspected that cuneiform, the system used to write Akkadian, originated elsewhere,…