Archaeology · 2 · Miriam
Written in Akkadian, with a Canaanite accent
The Amarna Letters from Canaan were written not in Hebrew or Egyptian but in Akkadian, the diplomatic language, by scribes whose phrasing betrays Canaanite idioms.
Diplomacy had a lingua franca.
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By analyzing the clay of the tablets, scholars can often tell where in Canaan each scribe was stationed.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 33
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