Linguistics

Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew

Read now Nick Posegay's introduction to his latest book 'Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew'.

sign language

Simplified Signs: A Sleeping Giant

Read Janis Sposato's post, in which she talks about the future of the Simplified Signs project and invites readers to 'awake the giant' and start using the signs.

sign language

An Open Essay on the Personal and Profound Relevance of Simplified Signs

Read Jessica Davis' open essay on the relevance of the Simplified Signs project and her involvement in it.

sign language

Simplified Signs and Psycholinguistics

Read Filip T. Loncke's reflections on the Simplified Sign project and on his collaboration to the system.

Our books

‘Thieves’ marks’ and ‘tinder-wolves’: The Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law

Read Adèle Kreager's take on our new title 'A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law'.

Linguistics

'The Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew'

The term ‘Biblical Hebrew’ is generally used to refer to the form of the language that appears in the printed editions of the Hebrew Bible and it is this form that it is

Susan Isaacs: Second Edition

Open Book Publishers - Winter Newsletter - February 2023

Open Book Publishers Joins the Open Book Collective

Teaching European History in the 21st Century

Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew

Simplified Signs: A Sleeping Giant

An Open Essay on the Personal and Profound Relevance of Simplified Signs

Simplified Signs and Psycholinguistics

‘Thieves’ marks’ and ‘tinder-wolves’: The Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law

'The Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew'