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By Christopher A. Rollston

Leaves from an Epigrapher’s Notebook: Collected Papers in Hebrew and West Semitic Epigraphy, Harvard Semitic Studies, 51.

Frank Moore Cross
(Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2003). 371 pp. $69.95 (hardcover)

The corpus of Northwest Semitic inscriptions (Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ammonite, Moabite, Palmyrene, Nabataean, etc.) is not nearly as large as the corpus of Mesopotamian cuneiform texts (Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian) or Egyptian texts (hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts). However, the corpus of (linear) Northwest Semitic inscriptions is by no means minuscule. Ostraca (notes on potsherds), seals, bullae (clay seal impressions), monumental stone inscriptions and inscribed prestige objects of various sorts (arrowheads, bowls and ivory) are all well-attested. Moreover, the field of Northwest Semitic epigraphy and paleography (dating by means of development of the form and ductus [the direction, number […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Frank M. Cross, “Phoenicians in Brazil?” BAR 05:01.

Endnotes

1.

Eretz Israel 26: Frank Moore Cross Volume (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1999), xi.

2.

Eretz Israel 26, xi.

3.

Frank Moore Cross, Orientalia 37 (1968), pp. 437–460; reprinted in Leaves as chapter 34.