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At the first meeting of his class in Northwest Semitic Epigraphy at Harvard, Frank Cross would inform students that one of the things each of them needed was an "eye for form." By this, he meant the ability to recognize typological or evolutionary change in letters and scripts. Frank, like his teacher William Foxwell Albright, was a master of typological method. In fact, typology was the dominant feature of his epigraphic work, from the origins of the alphabet to the development of the scripts o

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Author

Jo Ann Hackett (editor); Walter E. Aufrecht (editor)

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781575063034

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Language Learning, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25