By Charles Halton on Thursday, 27 July 2006 at 7:49 am
I must admit, I don’t blog about Akkadian language and culture all the time (partly because there are probably only a few hundred people in the world who really care about it and I try to satisfy both specialists and a general audience here), but I do care a great deal about it (note the name of the blog). So, I was pretty shocked when I googled the term “Akkadian blog” and the only two blogs within the first few pages that were really focused on ancient Near East were Joe Cathey’s blog (his old one at that, here’s the new one) and your very own awilum.com.
So, to help provide a bit more Akkadian oriented content because the apparent dearth of blogs providing it, I have a few posts planned for the next week.
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Comment by Chuck Jones
Made Thursday, 27 of July , 2006 at 8:48 am
There don’t seem to be very many Akkadian related blogs. There is The Deep (http://community.livejournal.com/abzu/), which is primarily student related. There is the brand-new Mari related (http://www.digitorient.com/), There is the Akkadian student’s blog at (http://wedge-strategy.livejournal.com/. Duane Smith’s Abnormal Interests is pretty good, though it focuses on Ugaritic (http://www.telecomtally.com/blog/)
And again there are the bible bloggers you mentioned. There is of course my blog associated with Abzu (http://www.bloglines.com/blog/AbzuNew) which has quie a lot of Mesopotamia/Assyriological materials.
I’ll be interested to see wht you come up with in your proposed posts.
-Chuck-
Comment by David Esrati
Made Thursday, 27 of July , 2006 at 9:57 am
Hi Charles-
All the Akkadian speakers of the world thank you!
Glad to see you are showing up in Google where you belong.
Comment by Duane
Made Thursday, 27 of July , 2006 at 10:55 am
While I blog on things Akkadian from time to time, my interests are rather narrow so I look forward to your posts.
Comment by Charles Halton
Made Thursday, 27 of July , 2006 at 6:13 pm
Well, I say you’re welcome to all 17 of the world’s Akkadian speakers. Thanks for the comment!
Comment by Charles Halton
Made Thursday, 27 of July , 2006 at 8:14 pm
Duane and Chuck,
Thanks for the comments, particularly the list of other ANE blogs, I didn’t have 2 of them on my radar, but all of you are on my del.icio.us links.
Comment by Aaron Macks
Made Sunday, 14 of March , 2010 at 5:35 pm
Almost a blog, almost related to Akkadian:
http://mt.wiglaf.org/parsing_akkadian/
it’s my change-log for the online akkadian parser: http://www.wiglaf.org/akkadian/
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