INTRODUCTION (1) It is always a fitting tribute to a scholarly field when a number of its in the greatest degree distinguished practitioners gather to think on its growth and historical evolution The work under review contains eighteen state-of-the-art essays through well-known specialists on various aspects of Semitic linguistics.

INTRODUCTION (1)

It is always a fitting tribute to a scholarly field when a number of its in the greatest degree distinguished practitioners gather to think on its growth and historical evolution The work under review contains eighteen state-of-the-art essays through well-known specialists on various aspects of Semitic linguistics. These invited articles were originally at handed at an international symposium held at Tel Aviv University in January 1999 sponsored by the agency of the University and many external sources. The basic questions upon the table were: where had Semitic linguistics been in the course of the twentieth hundred and before, and where would it or should it