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Enver A Makaevs The Language of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions was published in 1965 The present translation into English makes this important contribution to runic and Germanic linguistic scholarship available at last to the scholarly world at large not merely as the subject of historiographical interest but as a still valid appeal to runologists everywhere to abandon the wild and unfounded speculations so rampant in runological studies and to adopt a more scientific approach to these most ancient of all Germanic texts in keeping with the advances in comparative and historical linguistics
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Enver A Makaevs The Language of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions was published in 1965 The present translation into English makes this important contribution to runic and Germanic linguistic scholarship available at last to the scholarly world at large not merely as the subject of historiographical interest but as a still valid appeal to runologists everywhere to abandon the wild and unfounded speculations so rampant in runological studies and to adopt a more scientific approach to these most ancient of all Germanic texts in keeping with the advances in comparative and historical linguistics
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In this study Dr Privitera shows that Sicilian is not a dialect nor a corruption of Italian Dr Privitera convincingly argues that Sicilian is the oldest of the romance languages
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Encoded in the very words you speak are messages that you can use the gain a new vitality And amazingly the Word itself can take you to the roots of the worlds oldest mystery What evil did humanity eat in the garden that led to our initial downfall The answer brings us Out Of Armageddon Into Aquarius Why was the name of RA Egypts sungod the same as RA the Hebrew word for evil And why was MALUS the Latin for evil the same as MALUS the Latin for apple tree excerpts from books back cover and foreword
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Encoded in the very words you speak are messages that you can use the gain a new vitality And amazingly the Word itself can take you to the roots of the worlds oldest mystery What evil did humanity eat in the garden that led to our initial downfall The answer brings us Out Of Armageddon Into Aquarius Why was the name of RA Egypts sungod the same as RA the Hebrew word for evil And why was MALUS the Latin for evil the same as MALUS the Latin for apple tree excerpts from books back cover and foreword
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This book was assembled by a scholar of language and religion in order to bring together the best collection of the oldest stories known to man They are older than anything in the Bible or than Homer or than the epic poems of India They were recovered from the ruins of ancient cities and were originally written and told by the Assyrians and Babylonians of Mesopotamia as well as the Hittites and Canaanites There are 13 stories in all some of which the reader will recognize but others that are rarely or never seen anywhere else Stories in their order of appearance are The Adventures of Gilgamesh The War of the Gods Borrowed Plumes The Lost Chance How Toothache Came into the World The God Who Disappeared The Monster Made of Stone The Snaring of the Dragon Kessi and Huntsman Master Good and Master Bad The Heavenly Bow The King Who Forgot and The Story of Baal The author was once the chief of the Hebraic section of the Library of Congress and the first to do a complete translation of the Dead Sea Scriptures in English An invaluable bonus is that he shares his vast knowledge and expertise after each story with a commentary including crosscultural comparisons and a host of other interesting facts For example after The Story of Baal he tells us that the main story came from cuneiform tablets in Syria but its ending was discovered on a fragment of papyrus in Egypt This book is essential for those researching the first cultures of mankind or the earliest stories of the gods
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This book was assembled by a scholar of language and religion in order to bring together the best collection of the oldest stories known to man They are older than anything in the Bible or than Homer or than the epic poems of India They were recovered from the ruins of ancient cities and were originally written and told by the Assyrians and Babylonians of Mesopotamia as well as the Hittites and Canaanites There are 13 stories in all some of which the reader will recognize but others that are rarely or never seen anywhere else Stories in their order of appearance are The Adventures of Gilgamesh The War of the Gods Borrowed Plumes The Lost Chance How Toothache Came into the World The God Who Disappeared The Monster Made of Stone The Snaring of the Dragon Kessi and Huntsman Master Good and Master Bad The Heavenly Bow The King Who Forgot and The Story of Baal The author was once the chief of the Hebraic section of the Library of Congress and the first to do a complete translation of the Dead Sea Scriptures in English An invaluable bonus is that he shares his vast knowledge and expertise after each story with a commentary including crosscultural comparisons and a host of other interesting facts For example after The Story of Baal he tells us that the main story came from cuneiform tablets in Syria but its ending was discovered on a fragment of papyrus in Egypt This book is essential for those researching the first cultures of mankind or the earliest stories of the gods
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The foremost woman of letters in fantasy on the oldest and most magical of the arts This is Le Guins most important colle4ction of critical essays in which she presents her view of the role of myth and the imagination in literature
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Icelandic is one of the oldest and most complex languages in the world In this book Alda Sigmundsdóttir looks at the Icelandic language with wit and humour and how it reflects the heart and soul of the Icelandic people and their culture Many of the Icelanders idioms and proverbs their meaning and origins are discussed as is the Icelanders love for their language and their attempts to keep it pure through the ongoing construction of new words and terminology There is a section on Icelandic curse words as well as Icelandic slang which is mostly derived from English Throughout this book deconstructs Icelandic vocabulary and the oftenhilarious almost naive ways in which words are made This is a mustread book for anyone interested in the Icelandic people their culture and of course their language
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BHQ is the new fifth edition of the Biblia Hebraica It is being published in parts fascicles by the German Bible Society Some features include Diplomatic text of the Leningrad Codex cited from new color photographs As the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible it serves as the base text against which other witnesses are collated Masorah magna and parva of the Leningrad Codex are included with the text Layout of poetic texts corresponds as closely as possible to Masoretic accentuation Indications of parallel texts are given on the page A single apparatusis found at the foot of the page Text critical cases are generated and noted in the apparatus when a preTiberian witnesses arguably but not necessarily witnesses a Hebrew text that differs from the Tiberian text Two other Tiberian codices are collated for each book Qumran and Judean Desert fragments are collated All available preTiberian witnesses for each textual case are noted A general
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This rare Chinese edition of the I Ching is an extremely valuable resource for Book of Changes studies and divination and is one of the oldest Taoist renditions of the work When it was first written and by whom is unknown but this reproduction originally dates back to 1911 The front material and commentaries vary greatly from the Confucian perspective making it a true treasure of Taoist I Ching philosophy and theory
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Bjarke Frellesvig describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day as reflected by the written sources and historical record Beginning with a description of the oldest attested stage of the language Old Japanese approximately the eighth century AD and then tracing the changes which occurred through the Early Middle Japanese 8001200 Late Middle Japanese 12001600 and the Modern Japanese 1600onwards periods a complete internal history of the language is examined and discussed This account provides a comprehensive study of how the Japanese language has developed and adapted providing a much needed resource for scholars A History of the Japanese Language is invaluable to all those interested in the Japanese language and also students of language change generally
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Bjarke Frellesvig describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day as reflected by the written sources and historical record Beginning with a description of the oldest attested stage of the language Old Japanese approximately the eighth century AD and then tracing the changes which occurred through the Early Middle Japanese 8001200 Late Middle Japanese 12001600 and the Modern Japanese 1600onwards periods a complete internal history of the language is examined and discussed This account provides a comprehensive study of how the Japanese language has developed and adapted providing a much needed resource for scholars A History of the Japanese Language is invaluable to all those interested in the Japanese language and also students of language change generally
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Saigon November 1978 Under the cover of darkness a desperate family leaves home and friends hoping to escape the harsh regime of Communist Vietnam Their goal is to reunite with the four oldest children sent ahead to the United States but first they must evade ruthless communist patrols Elevenyearold Nam Moi is confused afraid and now homeless Her future seems bleak and devoid of hope The risks are great but it was not the first time her family had taken risks Long ago her Ung ancestors had migrated from China to northern Vietnam When the country was partitioned in 1954 they moved again to South Vietnam Nam Moi or little girl from the South was born in Saigon during the Vietnam War Her family survived the fighting but living under Communist rule was very hard After years of planning and debating Nam Mois father made the bold decision to escape in hope of finding a better life for his children somewhere else Nam Moi had been taught that sometimes gambles must be taken for a better life But would this huge gamble bring freedom or cost them all their lives Nam Moi A Young Girls Story of Her Familys Escape from Vietnam is a true story of triumph over repression danger and hardship Escaping from Vietnam meant traveling on a rusty cargo ship in the South China Sea for months barely hanging onto life Nam Mois father paid precious gold for the chance to escape the country but the price the family paid to survive was much higher than gold They had to start their lives all over again
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For this edition of the Metamorphoses R J Tarrant has freshly collated the oldest fragments and manuscripts and has drawn more fully than previous editors on the twelfthcentury manuscripts the earliest extant witnesses to many potentially original readings He has also given more scope to conjecture than other recent editors and has been readier than his predecessors to identify certain verses as interpolated This edition will be indispensable for future study of Ovids greatest work
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The foremost woman of letters in fantasy on the oldest and most magical of the arts This is Le Guins most important colle4ction of critical essays in which she presents her view of the role of myth and the imagination in literature
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This second edition of The History of the English Language A Sourcebook provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to the origins and development of the English language First published in 1992 the book contains over fifty illustrative passages drawn from the oldest English to the twentieth century The passages are contextualised by individual introductions and grouped into the traditional periods of Old English Early Middle English Later Middle English Early Modern English and Modern English These periods are connected by brief essays explaining the major linguistic developments associated with each period to produce a continuous outline historyFor this new edition Professor Burnley has expanded the outline of linguistic features at each of the main chronological divisions and included more selections and illustrations A new section has also been included to illustrate the language of advertising from the 18th century to the present The book will be of general interest to all those interested in the origins and development of the English language and in particular to students and teachers of the history of the English language at Alevel and university
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For this edition of the Metamorphoses R J Tarrant has freshly collated the oldest fragments and manuscripts and has drawn more fully than previous editors on the twelfthcentury manuscripts the earliest extant witnesses to many potentially original readings He has also given more scope to conjecture than other recent editors and has been readier than his predecessors to identify certain verses as interpolated This edition will be indispensable for future study of Ovids greatest work
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