Open-access textbooks & language primers

The AWOL (Ancient World Online) blog has brought together a selection of open-access text-books and primers of languages of the Ancient World, including a number relevant to the Near East  (Biblical Hebrew, Hittite, Manichaean Sogdian, Sumerian etc.)

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE AWOL LIST 

 ** For Akkadian, note Alan Lenzi's direction to his Reading Akkadian Hymns and Prayers: An Introduction, 

http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/9781589835962.pdf


"It doesn't teach Akkadian, but it does help with rapid reading of 29 selected prayers and hymns".