Egypt
- Who Really Invented The Alphabet
Biblical Archaeological Review In a landmark article in the March/April 2010 issue of BAR, Orly Goldwasser, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explained how the very first alphabet, from which all other alphabets developed,...
- Maarav Journal Volume 13.2, Fall 2007
Maarav A journey for the study of the northwest Semitic languages and literature. This issue has one article that may be of interest: Alejandro F. Botta The Legal Function and Egyptian Background of the Shalit Clause: A Reevaluation Egyptology News...
- Book Review: Gamal Al-ghitani's "pyramid Texts"
Egypt Daily Star News The Pyramid Texts, which evolved into the Book of the Dead, are the oldest religious writing from ancient Egypt that are known to us today. A collection of spells and legends, the texts form the basis of much Egyptian religious theology...
- More Re Semitic Text From Pyramid Of Unas
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070205-snake-spells.htmlA coherent summary of the discovery and decipherment of the Semitic passages inscribed on the subterranean walls of the pyramid of King Unas at Saqqara: "The Canaanite spells were...
- The Ancient Calendar Of The Akkadians Compared To Modern Jewish Calendar
The Akkadian Calendar ...
Egypt
Ancient spell may be oldest Semitic text
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4493199.html
"A magic spell to keep snakes away from the tombs of Egyptian kings, adopted from the Canaanites almost 5,000 years ago, could be the oldest Semitic text yet discovered, experts said Tuesday.
The phrases, interspersed throughout religious texts in Egyptian characters in the underground chambers of a pyramid south of Cairo, stumped Egyptian experts for about a century, until the Semitic connection was found.
In 2002 one of the Egyptologists e-mailed the undeciphered part of the inscription to Richard Steiner, a professor of Semitic languages at Yeshiva University in New York. Steiner discovered that the phrases are the transcription of a language used by Canaanites at some point in the period from 25th to the 30th centuries B.C."
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6535
The phrases, interspersed throughout religious texts in Egyptian characters in the underground chambers of a pyramid south of Cairo, stumped Egyptian experts for about a century, until the Semitic connection was found.
In 2002 one of the Egyptologists e-mailed the undeciphered part of the inscription to Richard Steiner, a professor of Semitic languages at Yeshiva University in New York. Steiner discovered that the phrases are the transcription of a language used by Canaanites at some point in the period from 25th to the 30th centuries B.C."
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6535
"Richard Steiner, professor of Semitic languages and literature at Yeshiva University, interpreted Semitic passages in Egyptian texts discovered more than a century ago inscribed on the subterranean walls of the pyramid of King Unas at Saqqara in Egypt sometime between the 25th and 30th centuries BCE.
The passages, which were meant to protect royal mummies against poisonous snakes, were written in hieroglyphic characters, but Steiner discovered that they were composed in the Semitic language spoken by the Canaanites in the third millennium BCE, an archaic form of the languages later known as Phoenician and Hebrew.
The Canaanite priests of the ancient city of Byblos, in present-day Lebanon, provided these texts to the kings of Egypt. "
The passages, which were meant to protect royal mummies against poisonous snakes, were written in hieroglyphic characters, but Steiner discovered that they were composed in the Semitic language spoken by the Canaanites in the third millennium BCE, an archaic form of the languages later known as Phoenician and Hebrew.
The Canaanite priests of the ancient city of Byblos, in present-day Lebanon, provided these texts to the kings of Egypt. "
- Who Really Invented The Alphabet
Biblical Archaeological Review In a landmark article in the March/April 2010 issue of BAR, Orly Goldwasser, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explained how the very first alphabet, from which all other alphabets developed,...
- Maarav Journal Volume 13.2, Fall 2007
Maarav A journey for the study of the northwest Semitic languages and literature. This issue has one article that may be of interest: Alejandro F. Botta The Legal Function and Egyptian Background of the Shalit Clause: A Reevaluation Egyptology News...
- Book Review: Gamal Al-ghitani's "pyramid Texts"
Egypt Daily Star News The Pyramid Texts, which evolved into the Book of the Dead, are the oldest religious writing from ancient Egypt that are known to us today. A collection of spells and legends, the texts form the basis of much Egyptian religious theology...
- More Re Semitic Text From Pyramid Of Unas
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070205-snake-spells.htmlA coherent summary of the discovery and decipherment of the Semitic passages inscribed on the subterranean walls of the pyramid of King Unas at Saqqara: "The Canaanite spells were...
- The Ancient Calendar Of The Akkadians Compared To Modern Jewish Calendar
The Akkadian Calendar ...