Table of Contents

Cuneiform Scripts
1: Historical background
2: Spource and date of the earliest inscribed tablets
3: Clay-tablets
4: Stone and metal, wood and ivory, papyrus and leather
5: Writing implements
6: The formation of pictographic and cuneiform signs
7: The arrangement of the text
8: From picture to symbol
9: From words to syllables
10: Scholars and scribes
11: Archives and libraries
Alphabetic Writing
1: Means and manner of writing
2: Diffusion of writing
3: Undeciphered marks and inscriptions
4: Sinaitic inscriptions
5: Early inscribed objects
6: Cuneiform tablets
7: Phoenician inscriptions
8: Moab and Palestine
9: Aramaean documents
10: Earliest South-Semitic inscriptions
11: Problems of interpretation
Chronological table of Semitic inscriptions
The Origin of the Alphabet
1: Theories regarding the origin of the alphabet
2: The cuneiform scripts and the Phoenician alphabet
3: The Egyptian pseudo-alphabet
4: The Sinaitic script
5: The South-Semitic alphabets
6: The Ugaritic alphabet
7: The evidential value of the names of the letters
8: The relation of the form of the letter to its name
9: The forms and names of the individual letters
10: The Greek alphabet
11: The order of the letters of the alphabet
12: The time and place of the invention of the alphabet