TY - JOUR
AU - Black, Jermy
AB -  In addition to the essay on Berber by the author himself (pp. 532­73), two essays by E. Graefe and G. Gragg on Egyptian (pp. 501­21) and -- with full details -- the Cushitic language group (pp. 574­617) respectively are presented. For reasons unknown, the Chadic language group has not been included. Finally I should like to say that I am pleased about the fact that a large number of ideas proposed by my Doktorvater, Otto Rössler, have been taken over, and developed further, by the author. When reading this book, I sometimes felt as if I was being taken back to the late sixties and the early seventies, when I studied with him at Marburg/Lahn -- obviously several years later than the author did. FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN RAINER VOIGT M.E.J. RICHARDSON, Hammurabi's Laws. Text, translation and glossary. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield 2000. Pp. 423. Price: £56.00. ISBN: 1-84127-030-X. For a variety of cultural and pedagogic reasons, the Laws of Hammurabi have been and will continue to be a basic tool both for teaching Akkadian and as an introduction to Babylonian civilization. Mervyn Richardson's presentation of Hammurabi's Laws, attractively produced by the Sheffield Academic Press, is intended especially for 
TI - REVIEWS
JO - Journal of Semitic Studies
DO - 10.1093/jss/48.1.127
DA - 2003-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/reviews-8o00Zlcp4e
SP - 127
EP - 129
VL - 48
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -