Akkadologist

plural Akkadologists

1. Synonym of Akkadist (“scholar who specializes in the Akkadian language and literature”)

   The Akkadologist thinks of uppuşum ‘shuffle, use shifts,’ a D stem of the type characterized in JAOS 62 (1942) 6f.

   1949, Journal of the American Oriental Society, page 181

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   There is certainly enough day-to-day work to keep the student of Akkadian busy. The extra-Semitic connections within the “cuneiform” world are at least as numerous as, and hardly less important than, the Semitic ones, and it may indeed be hard to show reason why the Akkadologist should not employ his energy on Sumerian or Hurrian rather than on general Semitics.

   1964, The World History of the Jewish People, page 103

   My purpose in the present paper is, looking at the Ebla language from the viewpoint of the Akkadologist, to urge against an overhasty identification of that language as North West Semitic or, more specifically, Canaanite.

   1981, La lingua di Ebla, page 161

   Concerning the Semitic languages, I have received a considerable amount of information from the Semitologist Lutz Edzard (Oslo), who in turn corresponded about my question with the Akkadologist Michael P. Streck (then Munich, now Leipzig), all in e-letters of April and May 2002. The evidence they provide shows a clear tendency to anwser Yes/No-questions with short entire sentences rather than with words meaning ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in the Central and East Semitic languages.

   2012, Germania Semitica, page 627

   Synonyms: Akkadist