Notes on Contributors Preface Part I: Writing systems Chapter 1 The Decipherment of Ancient Near Eastern Languages ( Peter T. Daniels ) Chapter 2 The Emergence of Cuneiform Writing ( Christopher Woods ) Chapter 3 The Development of Egyptian Writing in the fourth and early third millennium BCE ( Ludwig Morenz ) Chapter 4 The Emergence of Alphabetic Scripts ( Christopher Rollston ) Part II: Ancient Near Eastern Languages Chapter 5 Sumerian ( Piotr Michalowski ) Chapter 6 Egyptian ( Matthias Müller ) Chapter 7 Akkadian ( Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee ) Chapter 8 Eblaite ( Amalia Catagnoti ) Chapter 9 Elamite ( Jan Tavernier ) Chapter 10 Amorite ( Viktor Golinets ) Chapter 11 Hurrian ( Dennis R.M. Campbell ) Chapter 12 Hittite ( Ilya Yakubovich ) Chapter 13 Luwian ( Craig Melchert ) Chapter 14 Ugaritic ( Robert Hawley ) Chapter 15 Pre- and Post-Exilic Hebrew ( Seth Sanders ) Chapter 16 Phoenician ( Françoise Briquel Chatonnet ) Chapter 17 Old and Imperial Aramaic ( Christian Stadel ) Chapter 18 Ancient South Arabian ( Peter Stein ) Part III: Ancient Near Eastern Languages used as administrative languages or linguae francae Chapter 19 Akkadian as a Lingua Franca ( Juan-Pablo Vita ) Chapter 20 Aramaic as Lingua Franca ( Margaretha Folmer ) Part IV: Language Contact in the Ancient Near East Chapter 21 Sumerian and Akkadian Language Contact ( C. Jay Crisostomo ) Chapter 22 Language contact of Ancient Egyptian with Semitic and other Near Eastern Languages ( Thomas Schneider ) Chapter 23 Hebrew and Aramaic in Contact ( Aaron Koller ) Chapter 24 Multilingualism and Diglossia in the Ancient Near East ( Rebecca Hasselbach- Andee ) Part V: The development of literary languages and literary contact Chapter 25 Standard Babylonian ( Christian W. Hess ) Chapter 26 Standardization in Egyptian ( Antonio Loprieno ) Chapter 27 The "Influence" of Sumerian on Hittite Literature ( Mark Weeden ) Chapter 28 Ancient Near Eastern Literary Influences on Hebrew Literature and the Hebrew Bible ( Michael Wingert ).