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This 2020 essay reflecting on the state of the discipline of Semitic linguistics is more urgently relevant in 2025. Pat-El's recommendations apply for philologists and premodernists generally: to reverse balkanization, broaden training,& increase interdisciplinary work. www.jstor.org/stable/27132...

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The Decline and Fall of Semitic Linguistics on JSTOR Naˁama Pat-El, The Decline and Fall of Semitic Linguistics, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. 110 (2020), pp. 67-86 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27132474?seq=1

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