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Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period

Hoch, James E.·1994·Princeton University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1515/9781400863884
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Semitic words and names appear in unprecedented numbers in texts of the New Kingdom, the period when the Egyptian empire extended into Syria-Palestine. In his book, James Hoch provides a comprehensive account of these words--their likely origins, their contexts, and their implications for the study of Egyptian and Semitic linguistics and Late-Bronze and Iron-Age culture in the eastern Mediterranean. Unlike previous word catalogs, this work consists of concise word studies and contains a wealth of linguistic, lexical, and cultural information. Hoch considers some five hundred Semitic words found in Egyptian texts from about 1500 to 650 b.c.e. Building on previous scholarship, he proposes new etymologies and translations and discusses phonological, morphological, and semantic factors that figure in the use of these words. The Egyptian evidence is essential to an understanding of the phonology of Northwest Semitic, and Hoch presents a major reconstruction of the phonemic systems. Of equal importance is his account of the particular semantic use of Semitic vocabulary, in contexts sometimes quite different from those of the Hebrew scriptures and Ugaritic myths and legends. With its new critical assessment of many hotly debated issues of Semitic and Egyptian philology, this book will be consulted for its lexical and linguistic conclusions and will serve as the basis for future work in both fields. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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  • Some groups derive from loanwords and occasionally even from words that are not independently attested in the surviving texts.

    “Some groups derive from loanwords (e.g., = q/k-p =”

    From Group writing (2023) · cites this paper as Hoch 1994: 318, no.457

  • The same issues affecting Albright's proposal reemerged in Hoch's.

    “Therefore, the same issues affecting Albright's proposal reemerged in Hoch's.”

    From Group writing (2023) · cites this paper as Hoch (1994)

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Authors
Hoch, J. E.
Corresponding author
Hoch, James E.
Venue
Princeton University Press eBooks
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
1994-12-31
DOI
10.1515/9781400863884
OpenAlex
W2052069666
Cited by
301
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Citations by year
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FWCI
16.73
Type
book
Language
en
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closed
Locations
  • Princeton University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and language evolution
Keywords
Semitic loanwords, Egyptian texts, New Kingdom Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, etymology, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, Syria-Palestine, Egyptian philology, Ugaritic language, Hebrew language

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