Near Eastern Languages Reference Works

All resources are in the Eisenberg Room (D Level) unless otherwise noted.

Egyptian & Coptic:

The demotic dictionary of the University of Chicago 

A dictionary of Late Egyptian, ed.

R.O. Faulkner, A concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian (Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1962). PJ1425 .F3 1962

A.H. Gardiner, Egyptian grammar, 3rd ed. (London: Oxford University Press, 1957). PJ1135 .G3 1957 Quarto

G. Takacs, Etymological dictionary of Egyptian, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1999- ). Stacks PJ1351 .T35 1999

W.E. Crum, A Coptic dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962).  PJ2181 .C7 1962 Quarto

Hebrew:

L. Köhler, The Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament, 5 vols.(Leiden: Brill, 1994).  PJ4833 .K61813 1994

T.O. Lambdin, Introduction to biblical Hebrew (New York: Scribner, 1971).  PJ4567 .L3 1971 Quarto

Sumerian, Akkadian and Assyrian:

The Sumerian Dictionary of the University Museum of the University of  Pennsylvania, 2 vols.  Philadelphia: Babylonian Section of the University Museum, 1984). PJ4037 .S86 1984 Quarto

J. Black, A concise dictionary of Akkadian (Wiesbaden:  Harrassowitz, 2000).  PJ3525.C659 2000 [addenda]
 
A. Deimel, Sumerisches Lexikon, 4 vols. (Roma: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1928). PJ4037 .D35
 
Assyrian dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 21 vols. (Chicag Oriental Institute, 1956). PJ3525 .C5 Quarto
 
Hittite:
 
 J. Puhvel, Hittite etymological dictionary, 5 vols. (Berlin: Mouton,
 1984 ). Stacks Blue P945 .Z8 1984

 Hittite Dictionary of the University of Chicago