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The city of Emar, modern Tell Meskene in Syria, is one of the most important sites of the western ancient Near East during the Late Bronze Age that have yielded cuneiform tablets. The discovery of more than one thousand tablets and tablet fragments assures Emar's position, along with Bogazkoy-Hattusa and Ras-Shamra-Ugarit, as a major scribal center. Ephemeral documents such as wills or sale contracts, texts about rituals and cultic festivals, school texts and student exercises, and inscribed seals and their impressions enable reconstruction of the Emar scribal school institution and provide materials for investigation into the lives of more than fifty scribes whose works were found in the city. The aim of this book is to place Emar's scribal school institution within its social and historical context, to observe the participation of its teachers and students in the study of the school curriculum, to investigate the role of the scribes in the daily life of the city (in particular within the administration), and to evaluate the school's and its members' position within the network of similar institutions throughout the ancient Near East.

Scribes --- Scholars --- Cuneiform writing --- Bronze age --- History. --- Emar (Extinct city) --- Intellectual life. --- Persons --- Learning and scholarship --- Copyists --- Alphabet --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Inscriptions --- Paleography --- Writing --- Achaemenian inscriptions --- Cuneiform inscriptions --- Civilization --- History --- Emar (Ancient city) --- Maskanah Site (Syria) --- Meskéné Site (Syria) --- Syria --- Antiquities --- Bronze age. --- Cuneiform writing. --- Scholars. --- Scribes. --- Cultural life --- Emar --- Middle East --- Culture

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Part 1 of this study is a glossary with comparative analysis of non-normative Akkadian forms, Hittite and Hurrian words, West Semitic lexemes, and words of uncertain origin, with special attention given to the West Semitic forms. Part 2 consists of grammatical observations pertaining to the West Semitic forms, under the headings orthography, phonology, and morphology.

Semitic languages, West --- Akkadian language --- Langues sémitiques occidentales --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. --- Grammar --- Texts --- Glossaires, vocabulaires, etc --- Grammaire --- Textes --- Emar (Extinct city) --- Emar (Ville ancienne) --- Foreign words and phrases --- Semitic, West. --- Grammar. --- Emar (Extinct city). --- Langues sémitiques occidentales --- Semitic languages, West. --- West Semitic languages --- Semitic languages --- Syria --- Emar --- Middle East --- Emar (Ancient city) --- Maskanah Site (Syria) --- Meskéné Site (Syria) --- Antiquities --- Langues sémitiques occidentales septentrionales --- Akkadien (langue) --- Emar (ville ancienne) --- Glossaires, vocabulaires, etc. --- Emprunts sémitiques