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From Old Babylonian to Levantine

One of the words which were frequently repeated in the film entiltled The Poor Man of Nippur, World's first film in Babylonian, was ENZU,...

The Sumerian Word for Goose 𒊻

Here I shed light on the semantics, morphology and etymology of the Sumerian word for goose _ 𒊻. We know that the Sumerian pictograph 𒊻...

A Call for Reconstructing the Pronunciation of Biblical Hebrew

The pronunciation of Biblical Hebrew words, which are taught at the Israeli Institute of Biblical Studies, relies heavily on the sound...

Ugaritic and its Promising Insights into Linguistics

I find the similarity in spelling between the Ugaritic word for the self (𐎐𐎔𐎌) and that for the Sun (𐎌𐎔𐎌) very interesting. They...