Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Contributors viii
4. Preface x
5. An Appreciation of Frank Moore Cross xiii
6. Response by Frank Moore Cross to the Presentation of an 80th Birthday Volume of Essays xx
7. Bibliography of Frank Moore Cross xxi
8. Prolegomenon to the Study of Northwest Semitic Paleography and Epigraphy 1
9. A History of Northwest Semitic Epigraphy 5
10. Reconceptualizing the Periods of Early Alphabetic Scripts 30
11. The Ugaritic Alphabetic Script 56
12. The Iron Age Phoenician Script 72
13. Prolegomenon to the Study of Old Aramaic and Ammonite Lapidary Inscriptions 100
14. Iron Age Moabite, Hebrew, and Edomite Monumental Scripts 107
15. On the Authenticity of Iron Age Northwest Semitic Inscribed Seals 127
16. Phoenician Seal Script 141
17. Aramaic and Ammonite Seal Scripts 175
18. Hebrew, Moabite, and Edomite Seal Scripts 187
19. Northwest Semitic Cursive Scripts of Iron II 202
20. Scripts of Post–Iron Age Aramaic Inscriptions and Ostraca 235
21. Paleo-Hebrew Texts and Scripts of the Persian Period 253
22. The Aramaic Papyri Scripts 291
23. Punic Scripts 314
24. Paleography of the Semitic Judean Desert Scrolls 334
25. Northwest Semitic Scripts on Coins 352
26. Indexes 363