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Eblaitica : Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language (Publications of the Center for Ebla Research at New York University)
Published in Hardcover by Eisenbrauns (1990)
Authors: Gary A. Rendsburg, Nathan H. Winter, and Cyrus Herzl Gordon
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This is volume 2 of this series
There are four volumes in this series; if you buy this book you will be getting volume 2 (volume 1 was printed in 1987, volume 2 in 1990, and volume 3 in 1992, volume 4 in 2002).

If you are looking at this book, you may already know about Ebla, but if not... Ebla is an ancient city of Syria dating to the Early Bronze age -- ~2400 B.C. In the 1970s an Italian excavation team discovered 7000 cuneiform tablets (busted into about 15000 pieces) in this ancient city. The Ebla tablets contain a new language, and are relevant to Biblical studies for their linguistic ties to Hebrew. Sadly, the publication of the Ebla tablets in translation (English translation) has been slow going -- instead of a book of translated tablets, we have these fine volumes at our disposal. This volume is a collection of technical essays (not all in English) on Ebla and the tablets. Some of the highlights of this book include an article on the gods of Canaan, a discussion of Northwest Semitic studies, and a paper by I. M. Diakonoff on Ebla and linguistics.

This volume is nice, but one is left wanting more (as in more of the actual translated Ebla texts themselves)!

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