Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets (4 Vols.): A Linguistic Analysis of the Mixed Dialect Used by Scribes from Canaan. Vols. I, II, III, IV: 25 (HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES/HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK) - Tapa dura

'Rainey moves the discipline farther than any predecessor and provides an indispensable reference work on topic.' Richard S. Hess, Journal of Semitic Studies, 1998. 'This work is crucial for those working in semitics or connected fields.' Tammi J. Schneider, Religious Studies Review, 1998. 'CAT ist ein Meilenstein der Amarnaforschung und zugleich ein fundamentaler Beitrag zur nordwestsemitischen Philologie, zur Assyriologie und nicht zuletzt zur vergleichenden semitischen Sprachwissenschaft. Das Werk ist somit zu Recht ein "Handbuch der Orientalistik".' Josef Tropper, Archiv fur Orientforschung, 1997/1998.

This four-volume reference work deals with the language of the Amarna letters written by scribes who had adopted a peculiar dialect mixture of Accadian and West Semitic syntax. Each volume is written as a separate monograph; together they treat the problems of morphology and syntax, providing an invaluable source for the historical study of the North West Semitic family, including biblical Hebrew.