AMARNA STUDIES: Collected Writings 4
Contents 6
Preface 10
Acknowledgments 12
Vita 14
Publications of William L. Moran 18
Abbreviations 28
1. A Syntactical Study of the Dialect of Byblos as Reflected in the Amarna Tablets 34
Preface 36
Introduction 38
Byblian Syntax 42
I. PARTICLES 42
II. PREPOSITIONS 50
III. PRONOUNS 53
IV. THE FINITE VERBAL FORMS 57
V. THE USE OF THE ENERGIC 83
VI. THE INFINITIVE 87
VII. AGREEMENT OF VERB WITH SUBJECT 90
VIII. SUBSTANTIVAL CLAUSES 97
IX. CAUSAL CLAUSES 100
X. CONDITIONAL SENTENCES 101
XI. TEMPORAL CLAUSES 106
XII. RESULT CLAUSES 109
XIII. THE EXPRESSION OF PURPOSE 110
XVI. THE SUBJUNCTIVE 117
Appendix: Improved Readings and Translations 132
Bibliography 159
2. A Re–interpretation of an Amarna Letter from Byblos (EA 82). Journal of Cuneiform Studies 2 (1948):239–48 164
3. An Unexplained Passage in an Amarna Letter from Byblos. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 8 (1949):124–25 174
4. Rib–Adda of Byblos and the Affairs of Tyre (EA 89). Journal of Cuneiform Studies 4 (1950): 163–68 176
5. The Use of the Canaanite Infinitive Absolute as a Finite Verb in the Amarna Letters from Byblos. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 4 (1950): 169–72 184
6. New Evidence on Canaanite taqtulū(na). Journal of Cuneiform Studies 5 (1951): 33–35 192
7. "Does Amarna Bear on Karatepe?"—An Answer. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 6 (1952): 76–80 198
8. Amarna šumma in Main Clauses. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 7 (1953): 78–80 206
9. The Scandal of the "Great Sin" at Ugarit. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 18 (1959): 80–81 210
10. Early Canaanite yaqtula. Orientalia 29 (1960): 1–19. 179 212
11. The Hebrew Language in its Northwest Semitic Background. In The Bible and the Ancient Near East:Essays in Honor of William Foxwell Albright, ed. G.Ernest Wright, 53–72 230
12. *taqtul–Third Masculine Singular? Biblica 45 (1964):80–82 252
13. Amarna Letters. In The New Catholic Encyclopedia,ed. William J. McDonald et al., vol. 1, 368–69 256
14. The Death of ‘Abdi-Aširta. Eretz–Israel 9 (W. F. Albright Volume, 1969):94–99 260
15. Tell el–Amarna Letters. In Encyclopedia Judaica, vol.15, 933–35 270
16. The Dual Personal Pronouns in Western Peripheral Akkadian. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 211 (1973): 50–53 276
17. The Syrian Scribe of the Jerusalem Amarna Letters. In Unity and Diversity, ed. Hans Goedicke and J. J. M.Roberts, 146–68 282
18. Amarna Glosses. Revue d'Assyriologie 69 (1975): 147–58 308
19. Putative Akkadian šukammu. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 31 (1979): 247–48 322
20. duppuru (dubburu)—tuppuru, too? Journal of Cuneiform Studies 33 (1981): 44–47 324
21. A Note on igi-kár, "provisions, supplies." Acta Sumerologica Japonensia 5 (1983): 175–77 330
22. Additions to the Amarna Lexicon. Orientalia 53 (1984): 297–302 334
23. Rib–Hadda: Job at Byblos? In Biblical and Related Studies Presented to Samuel !wry, ed. Ann Kort and Scott Morschauser, 173–81 340
24. Join the ‘Apiru or Become One? In "Working with No Data": Semitic and Egyptian Studies Presented to Thomas 0. Lambdin, ed. David M. Golomb, 209–12 350
25. Amarna Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I: Tablets, Cones, and Bricks of the Third and Second Millennia B.C., ed. Ira Spar, 149–51, texts 102,103 356
26. Some Reflections on Amarna Politics. In Solving Riddles and Untying Knots: Biblical, Epigraphic, and Semitic Studies in Honor of Jonas C. Greenfield, ed.Ziony Zevit, Seymour Gitin, and Michael Sokoloff,559–72 360
27. Amama Letters. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, ed. Donald B. Redford, vol. 1, 65–66. Oxford/ New York: Oxford University Press, 2001 376
Indexes of Text Citations 378
1. Amarna Texts 378
2. Other Akkadian Texts 392
3. Biblical Texts 395
4. Ugaritic Texts 396
5. Other Northwest Semitic Texts 396
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