Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001)
Auteur de Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Decipherment
A propos de l'auteur
Cyrus Herzel Gordon, 1909 - 2001 Dr. Cyrus H. Gordon was born in 1909 in Philadelphia. He earned his bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate of Semitics. He is perhaps best known for his greatest scholarly achievement, a series of books on the on an afficher plus ancient language known as Ugaritic. From 1956 to 1973, Gordon was a professor of Near East Studies at Brandeis University, and chairman of the department of Mediterranean Studies from 1958 to 1973. From '73 til '89, he was a professor of Hebrew Studies at New York University, which is eventually from where he retired. Along with his responsibilities as a professor, Gordon held the post of Director of N. Y. U.'s Center for Ebla Research. Gordon was considered a great scholar and an expert on ancient languages. His autobiography, "A Scholar's Odyssey" won an award from the Jewish Book Council. Gordon Died at his home in Massachusetts on March 30, 2001. afficher moins
Œuvres de Cyrus H. Gordon
Ugaritic textbook; grammar, texts in transliteration, cuneiform selections, glossary, indices (1965) 61 exemplaires
Ugarit and Minoan Crete; the bearing of their texts on the origins of Western culture (1966) 24 exemplaires
Ugaritic literature : a comprehensive translation of the poetic and prose texts. (1949) 12 exemplaires
The Pennsylvania tradition of semitics : a century of Near Eastern and biblical studies at the University of… (1987) 5 exemplaires
Smith College Tablets: 110 Cuneiform Texts Selected from the College Collection, Smith College Studies in History, Vol.… (1952) 4 exemplaires
Ugaritic grammar; the present status of the linguistic study of the Semitic alphabetic texts from Ras Shama 4 exemplaires
Orient and Occident. Essays presented to Cyrus H. Gordon on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (1973) 2 exemplaires
Journal of Near Eastern Studies 1 exemplaire
The Phaistos Disk 1 exemplaire
Ugaritic Handbook 1 exemplaire
A Note on the Tenth Commandment, Reprinted from the Journal of Bible and Religion, Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (Jul 1963) 1 exemplaire
New horizons in Old Testament literature 1 exemplaire
Canaanite mythology 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley, Vol. 1 (1990) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Bono Homini Donum : Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns (1981) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Studies in diachronic, synchronic, and typological linguistics : festschrift for Oswald Szemerényi on the occasion of… (1979) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Fucus : a Semitic/Afrasian gathering in remembrance of Albert Ehrman (1988) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Asia Minor connexion : studies on the pre-Greek languages in memory of Charles Carter (2000) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 4, Number 2 (Summer 1969) (1969) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Gordon, Cyrus Herzl
- Date de naissance
- 1908-06-29
- Date de décès
- 2001-03-30
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Baghdad, Iraq
Jerusalem, British Palestine - Études
- University of Pennsylvania (AB|1927, MA|1928, PhD|1930)
Dropsie College of Philadelphia - Professions
- archaeologist
- Organisations
- Director of the Center for Ebla Research
National Association of Professors of Hebrew
American Historical Association
American Oriental Society
Society of Biblical Literature
Archaeological Institute of America (tout afficher 10)
American Philological Association
Royal Asiatic Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy for Jewish Research
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Gordon is not your "arm-chair" archeologist; he is a well-travelled path marching to his own saxophone. Personable, brilliant, detail-oriented. Famous for facility with Ugaritic, the first language to use the alphabet we have today.
Edition: // Descr: 44 p. : ill. (plates I-XII) 28.5 cm. // Series: Call No. { } // John E. Rexine Library Donation //
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- 31
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- 7
- Membres
- 887
- Popularité
- #28,887
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
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- ISBN
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Not only does Ugarit link Minos and the Hebrews, but Homer as well. This strongly reinforces the fact that until 1500 BC Greece, Ugarit, and Israel were all part of the same cultural sphere. Ironically, Ugarit broadens our horizons. [cf 7]
It is true that Israel did not produce a Parthenon, and "when did Greece bring forth an Isaiah?" But the Ugaritic epics "have unmistakable and organic parallels that link the pre-prophetic Hebrews with the pre-philosophical Greeks." [14]… (plus d'informations)