Charles G. Haberl is a specialist in Aramaic and Mandaic studies, and this article on the origin of the Mandaic script appeared in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the long running journal of record for Near Eastern archaeology and philology published under the American Schools of Oriental Research since 1919. Publication there means the article passed that journal's established editorial and peer review process before appearing in print, the same track record every other article in the same volume shares. It is strong evidence for the specific philological argument Haberl makes about where the Mandaic script came from, and like any single journal article it represents one scholar's argument within an ongoing field rather than a final settled consensus, so it is best read alongside the wider literature on Aramaic and Mandaic writing systems rather than as the last word on the question.
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Published in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the long-running peer reviewed journal of record for Near Eastern archaeology and philology, Charles G. Haberl's scholarly article on Mandaic script origins. NotesA peer reviewed paleography article by Charles Haberl, a specialist in Mandaic language and script at Rutgers University, published in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, a leading peer reviewed journal for Near Eastern archaeology and epigraphy. Its strength is that it engages directly with the letterform comparisons this atlas cites, weighing the Aramaic cursive and Parthian chancery derivations against each other rather than treating the question in passing. Its limit is that Haberl argues for the Parthian chancery position himself, so a reader should know this source represents one side of the debate rather than a neutral tertiary summary; the Aramaic cursive position is described here as it appears in the wider literature this article surveys, not from a dedicated monograph defending that side.
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AuthorCharles G. Haberl
PublisherBulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 341, pp. 53 to 62
Publication Year2006
URLhttps://doi.org/10.1086/BASOR25066933
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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