Languages

Individual Languages

History of Writing

• AncientScripts.com - helpful introductions to many ancient writing systems, including those of the ancient Near East
• The Evolution of Alphabets - by Robert Fradkin, University of Maryland; includes animations of alphabetic transformations over time
• Notes sur quatre inscriptions protosinaïtiques (French | English) - by Émile Peuch, Revue Biblique 109.1 (2002) 5-39; abstract only
• The Origin and Development of Writing in Mesopotamia: An Economic Interpretation - by Arden Eby, Wilsonville High School/Clackamas Community College
• The Origins and Emergence of West Semitic Alphabetic Scripts - by Jim Harris and Dann Hone, Brigham Young University
• Some Aspects of Older Writing Systems: With Focus on the D[ead] S[ea] S[crolls] - by Rochelle Altman

Miscellaneous Articles and Essays

• Philology and Power - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967-1998, Volume 2 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 613-30

Book Reviews

• Gowan, Donald E., ed., The Westminster Theological Wordbook of the Bible (Westminster John Knox, 2003) - reviewed by Perry Stepp, Review of Biblical Literature (2002)
• Kaltner, John, and Steven L. McKenzie, eds., Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages (Society of Biblical Literature, 2002) - reviewed by James R. Getz Jr., Review of Biblical Literature (2003)
• Silzer, Peter James and Thomas John Finley, How Biblical Languages Work: A Student's Guide to Learning Hebrew and Greek (Kregel, 2004)
  • Reviewed by Max Rogland, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)
  • Reviewed by Nijay Gupta, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)