Complete Babylonian

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781473627802
  • Weight: 857g
  • Dimensions: 190 x 245mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Oct 2018
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Babylonian offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate the inscriptions and texts from this ancient cradle of civilization.

Structured around authentic material, and introducing cuneiform script for those who wish to take their understanding further, this course also features:

-47 short learning units plus glossary and reference section
-Authentic materials - language taught through key texts
-Teaches the key skills - reading and understanding Babylonian grammar and vocabulary
-Covers cuneiform script - one of the earliest written forms
-Self tests and learning activities - see and track your own progress

"A book at once lucid, reliable and exciting. No other teacher in the world could have managed it. All his pupils are fortunate."
Irving Finkel, The British Museum

Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.

Dr Martin Worthington is Al Maktoum Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He specialises in Babylonian and Assyrian grammar, literature and medicine. In 2009 he received the Greenfield Prize from the American Oriental Society, and in 2011 he was jointly awarded the Sir George Staunton Prize by the Royal Asiatic Society. He also provided the Babylonian translations in the recent Marvel film, Eternals.

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