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

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

Rethinking the Canaanite Amarna Letters

Mandell, Alice

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2025

290

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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.
Scribalism in the Ancient Near East;Amarna Letters;Canaanite Amarna letters;Egyptian diplomacy;Near Eastern diplomacy;Ancient Near Eastern diplomacy;diplomacy in the ancient near east;Diplomacy in ancient egypt;Late Bronze Age Levant;Cuneiform;Canaanite Egyptian relations;Canaanite Egyptian diplomacy;Canaanite diplomacy;Cuneiform Scribes;History of Canaan;Canaano-Akkadian;Canaanite Cuneiform;Diplomatic Scribal Code in Canaan;Diplomatic Scribal Code in the levant;Diplomatic Scribal Code in the ancient near east