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Cognate & Ancient languages
Basics of Ancient Ethiopic
A Complete Grammar, Workbook, and Lexicon Archie T. Wright
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“A valuable introduction to Ge‘ez . . . the foundation on offer here furnishes an initial link into a manuscript culture that goes a long way to whet the appetite for further study.” —LOREN T. STUCKENBRUCK, professor of New Testament, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Basics of Ancient Ethiopic by Archie Wright introduces students to the basic grammar of ancient Ethiopic (Ge‘ez) while approaching the language through its wider cultural and literary context, and its historical legacy.
As part of the widely-used Zondervan Language Basics series of resources, Wright’s Ethiopic grammar is a student-friendly introduction. It helps students learn by:
• Minimizing technical jargon • Providing only the information needed to learn the basics • Breaking the grammar of language down into manageable and intuitive chunks
• Illustrating the grammar in question by its use in rich selections from ancient Christian and the Second Temple Jewish books of 1 Enoch and Jubilees
• Providing grammar, readings, exercises, and a lexicon all in one convenient volume
Basics of Ethiopic provides an ideal first step into this important language and focuses on getting the student into texts and translation as quickly as possible.
NEW RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 2022
$59.99 | $35.99 ISBN 9780310539049 Softcover - 320 pages
ARCHIE T. WRIGHT (PhD, Durham University) is interim executive director of the Catholic Bible Association. He has authored or contributed to several books, including The Origin of Evil Spirits: The Reception of Genesis 6:1-4 in Early Jewish Literature, Spirit and Scripture: Exploring a Pneumatic Hermeneutic, Early Jewish Literature: An Anthology, and Satan and The Problem of Evil: From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers. Wright is a practicing charismatic Catholic who endeavors to assist in promoting social justice for all humanity.
NEW RELEASE
NOVEMBER 2022
$74.99 | $44.99 ISBN 9780310134596 Softcover - 400 pages
Basics of Akkadian
A Grammar, Workbook, and Glossary Gordon P. Hugenberger, Nancy L. Erickson
Basics of Akkadian by Gordon P. Hugenberger with Nancy L. Erickson is a one-semester introductory textbook to the Akkadian language. The grammar provides students with essential tools to quickly grasp the Akkadian language and move into translation. Designed around the Laws of Hammurabi, each chapter includes: • Explanation of grammatical points • Signs that need to be learned • Vocabulary • Exercises
By the end of the grammar, students will have: • Read through and studied two substantial sections of the Laws of Hammurabi
• Learned how to read Neo-Assyrian script, how to transliterate that script, normalize the transcription, and translate • Acquired a working vocabulary of over 160 words • Learned over 125 cuneiform signs with their most common values
Robust appendices at the back of the book include major paradigms, a list of cuneiform signs, an alphabetical list of V, CV and VC cuneiform signs, and Akkadian glossary. Finally, well-respected biblical scholars provide insightful vignettes throughout the grammar that highlight the unique signifi cance of learning Akkadian for students of the Hebrew Bible. Basics of Akkadian is designed for classroom use as well as the independent learner. Students will acquire all the necessary tools to either pursue additional studies of the Akkadian language or to utilize the information gained for better understanding the cognitive environment of the biblical world and to engage thoughtfully and carefully with Akkadian literature.
GORDON P. HUGENBERGER (PhD, College of St. Paul & St. Mary and the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies) is senior professor of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and senior minister emeritus of Park Street Church, Boston, MA. He is author of Marriage as a Covenant: A Study of Biblical Law and Ethics Governing Marriage, Developed from the Perspective of Malachi.
NANCY L. ERICKSON (PhD, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) is executive editor of biblical languages, textbooks, and reference tools at Zondervan Academic. She is coeditor of and contributor to Windows to the Ancient World of the Hebrew Bible.
