Essential Books for Learning Ancient Hebrew
ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR LEARNING ANCIENT HEBREW 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…
Resources for Learning Akkadian
Akkadian was the lingua franca of the ancient Near East for thousands of years. It exploded in popularity after Sargon the Great's conquests c. 2300 BCE, and it stayed the…
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,…