TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamilton,Gordon J.
TI  - The origins of the West Semitic alphabet in Egyptian scripts
SN  - 091517040X (alk. paper)
AV  - PJ4107 .H36 2006
U1  - 492.0411 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Catholic Biblical Association of America
KW  - Egipcio
KW  - Escritura hierática
KW  - Escritura jeroglífica
KW  - Escritura protocananea
KW  - Lenguas semíticas de Occidente
KW  - Alfabeto
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 407-431) e índice; INTRODUCTION – The aims of this monograph – Terms – The egyptian prototypes of the alphbetic letter forms – The proto-canaanite letter forms and stances – The acrophonic letter names – The format for titles end usage of names in chapters 2 and 3 – The two orders of the letters – A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE  PROTO-CANAANITE ALPHABET – CONCLUSIONS – The egyptian antecedents of the proto-canaanite letter forms – Letter names – Chronological concerns – A preliminary correlation of the selection of certain signs with aspects of the material culture – The adoption and adaptation of signs depicting the human form – Summary: The relative simplicity of the proto-canaanite alphabet; P145; P127; P97; P35; P14; P07
ER  -