In honor of the upcoming the book sales at SBL I have compiled a list of resources for students who are interested in learning Akkadian. I have broken this list into three categories that correspond with the years of learning. This is a somewhat artificial stratification since all of these resources are helpful, however, some of the more detailed resources are best utilized after previous study (I haven not included the two major dictionaries, AHw & CAD since they are very expensive, but if you have the cash they are worth it; I have not included Akkadian texts that you could read since this depends on your particular interests, but I might start with the Code of Hammurapi). Eisenbrauns carries all of these books and at the end of the post I have included a .doc file that you can download and take to James Spinti of Eisenbrauns–all you have to do is tell him what level of Akkadian you are at (or would like to attain).

First Year Resources:

A Grammar of Akkadian
Second Edition
Harvard Semitic Studies – HSS 45
by John Huehnergard
Harvard Semitic Museum / Eisenbrauns, 2005
xl + 648 pages, English
Cloth, 6 x 9
ISBN: 1575069229
List Price: $49.95
Your Price: $44.96
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Key to A Grammar of Akkadian
Second Edition
Harvard Semitic Studies – HSS 46
by John Huehnergard
Harvard Semitic Museum / Eisenbrauns, 2005
x + 137 pages, English
Cloth, 6 x 9
ISBN: 1575069245
List Price: $27.95
Your Price: $25.16
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An Akkadian Handbook
Paradigms, Helps, Logograms, and Sign Lists

by Douglas B. Miller and R. Mark Shipp
Eisenbrauns, 1996
viii + 163 pages, English
Paper
ISBN: 0931464862
List Price: $18.95
Your Price: $17.06
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Second Year Resources:

Manuel d’epigraphie akkadienne
Signes, Syllabaire, ideogrammes
6th edition

by Rene Labat and Florence Malbran-Labat
Geuthner (Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner S.A.), 1988
xvi + 346 pages + 2 maps, French
Paper
ISBN: 2705335838
Your Price: $108.00
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Akkadian Grammar
5th edition

by Arthur Ungnad
Translated by Harry A. Hoffner Jr.

Scholars Press, 1992
xix + 185 pages, English
Paper
ISBN: 155540801X
List Price: $24.95
Your Price: $23.20
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A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian
Second corrected printing

Edited by Jeremy A. Black, Andrew George, and Nicholas Postgate
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000
xxiv + 450 pages, English
Paper
ISBN: 3447042648
Your Price: $46.00
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Third Year Resources:

Das akkadische Syllabar
Analecta Orientalia – AO 42
by W. von Soden
Biblical Institute Press / Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1976
xli + 76 pages, German
Paper
ISBN: 8876532579
Your Price: $39.00
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Grundriss der akkadischen Grammatik
3d edition
Analecta Orientalia – AO 33
by W. von Soden
Biblical Institute Press / Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1995
xxxi + 327 + 55* pages, German
Paper
ISBN: 8876532587
Your Price: $90.00
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L’Ecriture Cuneiforme
Syllabaire sumerien, babylonien et assyrien
Geuthner Manuels – GM
by Lucien-Jean Bord and Remo Mugnaioni
Geuthner (Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner S.A.), 2002
253 pages, French
Paper
ISBN: 2705336826
Your Price: $63.00
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Resources for Students of Akkadian .doc file