anti-Akkadist

plural anti-Akkadists · alternative Anti-Akkadist · alternative anti-Accadist · alternative Anti-Accadist

1. historicalobsoleteSynonym of anti-Sumerist

   Only the most decided anti-Akkadists could give any support to the theory that the language of the early nomad Semites is concealed beneath the “still undeciphered” Accadian or Sumerian inscriptions.

   1888, The American, page 120

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   Almost all Assyriologists—with the natural exception of the two French anti-Akkadists—accepted my conclusions, most conspicuously Professor Delitzch in his admirable work “Wo lag das Paradies?” (Leipzig, 1881).

   1884, American Journal of Philology, pages 69–70

   The author [Friedrich Delitzsch], so far as we have seen, has made no direct statements as to his present position in the Sumero-Akkadian question. As far back as the third edition of his Assyrisches Lesestuecke (July, 1885), he has carefully avoided the terms Sumerian and Akkadian, preferring the more generaland non-committal term “Non-Semitic.” In Dr. Zimmern’s Busspsalmen, he admits that more scientific methods and more convincing arguments must be used against the Anti-Akkadists than have heretofore been used, if the Akkadists wish to win their points. From several indirect statements, however, one is led to believe that Delitzsch is gradually drawing nearer and nearer to the Anti-Akkadist school of Halévy.

   1887, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, pages 59–60

   Even if the anti-Akkadists could conclusively prove that the idiom which we call Akkadian was in any sense a world-speech (to restore “Volapük” to its original form), they must also explain satisfactorily the existence of a dialect (Sumerian) and how a Semitic people could invent an idiom differing so strangely from thatt of their own language (see the text here transcribed and translated).

   1890, Theo. G. Pinches, “An Early Babylonian Inscription from Niffer”, in Hebraica, page 58

   The anti-Akkadists, or those who contend that there is no non-Semitic idiom, but only a kind of cryptography, which they call ‘allography,’ or '‘hieroglyphic system’ of writing, make use of the above-mentioned facts to support their theory.

   1900, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 79

   Synonyms: anti-Sumerist

alternative Anti-Akkadist · alternative anti-Accadist · alternative Anti-Accadist

1. historicalobsoleteSynonym of anti-Sumerist

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   The author [Friedrich Delitzsch], so far as we have seen, has made no direct statements as to his present position in the Sumero-Akkadian question. As far back as the third edition of his Assyrisches Lesestuecke (July, 1885), he has carefully avoided the terms Sumerian and Akkadian, preferring the more generaland non-committal term “Non-Semitic.” In Dr. Zimmern’s Busspsalmen, he admits that more scientific methods and more convincing arguments must be used against the Anti-Akkadists than have heretofore been used, if the Akkadists wish to win their points. From several indirect statements, however, one is led to believe that Delitzsch is gradually drawing nearer and nearer to the Anti-Akkadist school of Halévy.

   1887, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, pages 59–60

   Synonyms: anti-Sumerist