Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age

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Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age

Rethinking the Canaanite Amarna Letters

Mandell, Alice

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2026

912

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9781138230507

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1. Introduction: Writing, Scribes, and Diplomacy in the Southern Levant in the Amarna Age; 2. From Speech Communities to Script Communities: Past Approaches and New Directions in the Study of the Canaanite Amarna Letters; 3. The Canaanite Amarna Letters and the Scribes Who Wrote Them; 4. Approaches to Code-Switching and Related Phenomena in Speech and Writing; 5. Code-Alternation in Canaano-Akkadian, a Multimodal Strategy of Communication; 6. Broad Strokes: The Visual Design of the Canaanite Amarna Tablets; 7. Code-Alternation in EA 286: A Jerusalem Amarna Letter, Written by a Scribe Trained Outside of Canaan; 8. Code-Alternation in EA 147: A "Literary" Letter from Tyre; 9. Code-Alternation as Register Shifting in EA 300 and 378; 10. Code-Alternation in EA 369, an Egyptian-Akkadian Letter; 11. Conclusion: The Canaanite Amarna Letters as Portals into Cuneiform Script Communities.
ancient literacy studies;multimodal text analysis;orthographic systems;Akkadian language research;West Semitic linguistics;register variation;scribal practice in Late Bronze Age Levant