'These are Your Words' (EA 1: 66): Direct Citation and Communication in the International El-Amarna Letters

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Abstract

How did ancient writers use direct speech or quote others in international and diplomatic correspondence? This article explores this phenomenon, taking the El-Amarna archive as a test case. Framing it within the modern rubric of linguistic studies, it adduces examples of …,
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)15-28
JournalJournal of Northwest Semitic Languages
Volume44
Issue number1
StatePublished - 2018

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