Manfred Krebernik – författare

In spite of the immense progress of Akkadian and Semitic linguistics in recent decades, no systematic diachronic treatment of the the Akkadian vocabulary has been carried out. The Akkadian vocabulary itself has been relatively well disclosed in two major dictionaries, but the Akkadian language has not been been sufficiently studied and analysed as a linguistic reservoir. The Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian presents a comparative and historical analysis of the entire Akkadian vocabulary in a systematic and comprehensive manner.

Akkadian is the oldest transmitted Semitic language (from ca. 2600 BCE till the end of the first millennium BCE) and with an extant textual corpus of ca. 10 million words it is one of the best documented languages of the ancient world, comparable to the Latin record until the 3rd century CE. Akkadian was the main language of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires and the lingua franca of the ancient Near East used, for example, by the Hittites and Egyptians in international correspondence. The Akkadian language is therefore crucial in reconstructing early Semitic historical grammar, and, due to its central role in a vast geographical and culturally diverse are over a long period of time, Akkadian is unequivocally important as the origin, receptor, and transmitter of both Semitic and non-Semitic loan and foreign words whose traces can, for example, be found in modern languages.

In spite of the immense progress of Akkadian and Semitic linguistics in recent decades, no systematic diachronic treatment of the the Akkadian vocabulary has been carried out. The Akkadian vocabulary itself has been relatively well disclosed in two major dictionaries, but the Akkadian language has not been been sufficiently studied and analysed as a linguistic reservoir. The Etymological Dictionary of Akkadian presents a comparative and historical analysis of the entire Akkadian vocabulary in a systematic and comprehensive manner.

Akkadian is the oldest transmitted Semitic language (from ca. 2600 BCE till the end of the first millennium BCE) and with an extant textual corpus of ca. 10 million words it is one of the best documented languages of the ancient world, comparable to the Latin record until the 3rd century CE. Akkadian was the main language of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires and the lingua franca of the ancient Near East used, for example, by the Hittites and Egyptians in international correspondence. The Akkadian language is therefore crucial in reconstructing early Semitic historical grammar, and, due to its central role in a vast geographical and culturally diverse are over a long period of time, Akkadian is unequivocally important as the origin, receptor, and transmitter of both Semitic and non-Semitic loan and foreign words whose traces can, for example, be found in modern languages.

Der Band bildet den Auftakt zu einer Edition des gesamten Corpus altmesoptamischer Götterlisten. Er enthält die Listen "An = Anum" (nebst Vorläufern) sowie "An = Anu ša amēli" und einige ähnliche, mehr oder weniger fragmentarische Listen. Die Götterliste An = Anum war mit ca. 2000 Einträgen die umfangreichste Liste ihrer Art. Sie ist systematisch angelegt und enthält Erklärungen sowie eingeschobene Zusammenfassungen einzelner Gruppen von Gottheiten. Die Textzeugen bieten in unterschiedlichem Umfang auch Aussprache- und Übersetzungsglossen. In der vorliegenden Edition wird jede Liste als Komposittext mit Übersetzung, kritischem Apparat und synoptischem Nachweis der Textzeugen präsentiert, es folgen jeweils philologische Kommentare. Zudem sind alle Textzeugen einzeln transliteriert. Namen, Wörter und Glossen werden durch detaillierte Indizes erschlossen. Handkopien bzw. Photos bisher unveröffentlichter Texte beschließen den Band.