Sargonic Texts in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary, #5)
by I J Gelb
This volume presents transliterations of texts in the Ashmolean Museum, most of which are from Kish and Umm-el-Jir, near Kish. A few texts of unknown origin have also been included. The majority of these tablets are standard administrative texts such as are found in other great collections of Sargonic texts from Gasur, the Diyala region, Lagash, and Susa. A small but important group of texts consists of contracts or memos concerning contractual agreements. Other types of texts are also represent...
Arabische Welt. Grammatik, Dichtung Und Dialekte
Pahlavi Texts 5 Volume Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Religion)
by Edward William West
Published between 1880 and 1897 as part of Max Muller's Sacred Books of the East series, this five-volume translation of Pahlavi texts was the work of Edward William West (1824-1905). Largely self-taught, West developed his knowledge of ancient oriental languages in India, where he worked as a civil engineer. After returning to Europe, West focused on the study of sacred Zoroastrian texts and prepared these translations of Pahlavi manuscripts, cementing his reputation for pioneering scholarship....
Lonely Planet's Moroccan Arabic Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Moroccan Arabic phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Explore old and new culture, navigate the colourful markets, and order delicious delicacies from restaurant menus; all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now! Get More From...
In this prize-winning novel, Nahid is a woman determined to go on a journey of self discovery and understanding. As we accompany her in her sometimes delirious, sometimes lucid journey, we are given rare glimpses of the inner thoughts and feelings of a woman confronting questions of love and intimacy within and outside of marriage. It is a story of one woman's quest for liberation, not from a repressive society or a male-dominated world - that is easy and has been done many times before --but fr...
In the Jungle (Collins Big Cat) (Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme)
by Becca Heddle
This non-fiction book takes you on a journey into the jungle and looks at the people, animals and wildlife that live there, including parrots, monkeys and big cats. This non-fiction book takes you on a journey into the jungle and looks at the people, animals and wildlife that live there, including parrots, monkeys and big cats.Pink A/Band 1B books offer simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actionsPhotographs of all the different things that can be found in the jungle on p...
Fit every pocket -- and every traveler's need for a compact, easy-to-use, and dependable reference source.Part language instructor, part tour guide, the world-renowned Berlitz Phrase Book series has been the ideal companion guide for millions of travelers worldwide. Providing a wealth of essential information and practical tips, this popular series, redesigned and with updated phrases and expressions and over 2,300 words covering just about any situation a traveler is likely to encounter, remain...
A resource for young learners, this series of bilingual visual dictionaries comes in a CD-ROM format to help children add to their vocabulary. Useful, everyday words are grouped into subjects so that children can focus on one set of related words at a time, while games such as word searches, jumbles, and matches help make learning fun. By clicking on a picture, users can hear the word pronounced in two languages, making this an ideal learning tool for both individual use and classroom settings.
This phrasebook is full of essential words and phrases that cover almost every travel situation in Egypt and make communication with the local people easier. The inclusion of Arabic script makes this book useful for travelers in most other Arabic-speaking countries as well.
Rucklaufiges Worterbuch Des Akkadischen (Santag, #1)
by Karl Hecker
This collection of scholarly essays on Egyptian culture, history, society, archeology, literature, art, and conservation is published in memory of Werner Mark Linz, who spent much of the latter part of his professional life as the Director of the American University in Cairo Press. East-West Divan is the first volume of the Gingko Library, a publishing project that embraces scholarship from both East and West, conceived by Werner Mark Linz to foster greater cross-cultural understanding. Among th...
With stunning new design and layout and the most up-to-date travel information, the market's most indispensable phrasebook has been reinvented, and is better than ever. Collins Gem Arabic will give you the right word at the right time - every time. In all of the most common travel situations, you need the reassurance that you can communicate with ease. A reliable, portable and easy-to-use phrasebook is a travel essential, and now with the completely re-designed Collins Gem Arabic, the...
Nuzi Texts and Their Uses as Historical Evidence (SBL - Writings from the Ancient World, #18)
by Maynard Paul Maidman
Ancient Nuzi, buried beneath modern Yorghan Tepe in northern Iraq, is a Late Bronze Age town belonging to the kingdom of Arrapha that has yielded between 6,500 and 7,000 legal, economic and administrative tablets, all belonging to a period of some five generations (ca. 1475-1350 B.C.E.) and almost all from known archaeological contexts. The tablets were excavated from the government administrative complexes, from houses in all the urban neighborhoods, from each of the suburban villas, and even a...
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature - Scholar's Choice Edition
by Marcus Jastrow
The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, #11)
the demise of the logical positivism programme. The answers given to these qu- tions have deepened the already existing gap between philosophy and the history and practice of science. While the positivists argued for a spontaneous, steady and continuous growth of scientific knowledge the post-positivists make a strong case for a fundamental discontinuity in the development of science which can only be explained by extrascientific factors. The political, social and cultural environment, the argum...
The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in many ways assumes the function of an encyclopedia.
My Father's Job (Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme)
by Mahmoud Gaafar
Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step. Level 3 books introduce the concept of the 'story', and include simple phonic sounds and very high-frequency words with simple spellings.Dads do all kind...
Conditional Structures in Mesopotamian Old Babylonian (Languages of the Ancient Near East)
by Eran Cohen
This volume examines conditional structures in Old Babylonian from a linguistic point of view, drawing on a corpus of letters, law collections, and omens. All of the conditional patterns are provided with a syntactic characterization, so that each conditional sequence is differentiated from all other potential sequences. The volume includes detailed discussion about the values of various verbal and other predicative forms in the conditional structures occurring in the corpus, the differences bet...