Oriental Studies Classic Reprint

Author : Johns Hopkins University
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332347301
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Oriental Studies written by Johns Hopkins University and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oriental Studies: Being a Selection of Papers Read by the Members of the Oriental Seminary of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD., At the Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Held in New York, April, 1901 Nor have Semitic scholars, as a rule, taken the trouble to study my treatise on the Semitic sounds and their transliteration, pub lished eleven years ago in the first part of the Johns Hopkins Contributions to Assyriology and Comparative Semitic Philol ogy.l There are, however, a few notable exceptions. The dis tinguished Egyptologist of the University of Leipzig and editor of Baedeker's E ypt, Professor Steindorff, one of my first students in the University of ttingen, has evidently studied my phonetic researches for the phonology of his Coptic Grammarfand the well known Arabist, Count Landberg (two of whose magnificent col lections, comprising valuable Arabic (persian and Turkish) manuscripts, have recently been presented to Yale and Princeton) told me, at the last Oriental Congress, held in Rome in 1899, that he had found my phonetic researches very helpful for his studies in Arabic dialectology; and a few days ago Professor Eduard Sievers, of Leipzig, sent me the first part of his elaborate work on Hebrew Metrics, s which will have a most wholesome effect on the current ideas of Hebrew poetry. He states there in his pho nological introduction (p. 14, n. 1) that he agrees on all essential points with my views concerning the Semitic consonants. Sievers' treatise on Hebrew meters, which is a wonderful piece of work in view of the fact that he is not a Hebraist but a Germanic scholar (although he had the assistance of some distinguished Semitists like Socin, Kautsch, and Buhl), will probably give a new impetus to phonetic studies among Semitic scholars, and I hope the next edition of Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, which will be issued in the course of this year, will eliminate several time-honored errors in the domain of Semitic phonetics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.