Sumerist

English Etymology en :af Sumer -ist<id:person> + 1 Pronunciation en /ˈs(j)uːməɹɪst/ en uːməɹɪst 3 Noun en historical An opponent of the anti-Sumerist (or anti-Akkadist) school (the 19th-century Assyriological school, chiefly associated with Joseph Halévy, that denied the existence of the Sumerian language (which was still called Akkadian by some late 19th-century scholars), interpreting the apparently non-Semitic features of the cuneiform inscriptions as an allographic or cryptographic system of writing). en Akkadist<q:obsolete> en anti-Sumerist anti-Akkadist<q:obsolete> en 1893 Christopher Johnston (Assyriologist) Christopher Johnston The Sumero-Akkadian Question Journal of the American Oriental Society 319 https://books.google.com/books?id=yca0VA99fTsC&pg=PA319 To sum up the whole question in a few words, the Sumerists hold that Sumerian was a real language, spoken by the primitive inhabitants of Babylonia, and appearing in two forms differing from each other either locally or temporally; while the position of J. Halévy and other anti-Sumerists, whose ranks have been strengthened by such distinguished scholars as the late Stanislas Guyard of Paris and Prof. Friedrich Delitzsch of Leipzig, is that it was no language at all, but merely a figment of the priestly class, a pure cryptography. en 1893 C. P. Thiele On the Study of Comparative Theology John Henry Barrows The World’ Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the World’s First Parliament of Religions, Held in Chicago in Connection with the Columbian Exposition of 1893 1 585–586 https://books.google.com/books?id=2kZSm1bsOQQC&pg=PA585 How much does Brugsch differ in his representation of the Egyptian Mythology from Edward Meyer and Erman; how great a division among the Assyriologists between the Accadists, or Sumerists and the Anti-Sumerists or Anti-Accadists; how much differs the explanation of the Veda by Roth, Müller, Grassman, from that by Ludwig, and how different is Barth’s explanation from Bergaigne’s and Regnaud’s; how violent was the controversy between Spiegel and Haupt about the explanation of the most ancient pieces in the Avesta; and now, in this year of grace, while the younger generation, as Bartholomæ and Geldner on the one hand, Geiger, Wilhelm, Hubschmann, Mills, on the other hand, are following different roads, there has come a scholar and a man of genius, who is, however, particularly fond of paradoxes, James Darmesteter, to overthrow all that was considered up to his time as being all but stable, nay, even to undermine the foundations, which were believed safe enough to be built upon. en 1901 John Dyneley Prince J. Dyneley Prince The Unilingual Inscriptions K. 138 and K. 3232, translated Journal of the American Oriental Society https://books.google.com/books?id=17s4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 1 See his Hdwb., throughout, and his Assyr. Gr., 1889, § 25, where he Friedrich Delitzsch gives a long excursus against the theories of the Sumerists. en 2021 The Idea of Semitic Monotheism 156 https://books.google.com/books?id=hcUqEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA156 Anor notes that in attacking the “Sumerists,” Halévy was in fact trying to reject anti-Semitic approaches such as that of Renan, but that he did so “within the boundaries of the racial discourse.” Translations opponent of the anti-Sumerist school French: fr sumériste mfbysense German: de Sumerist m, de Sumeristin f Italian: it sumerista mfbysense Adjective ? en historical Of or relating to the Sumerists. en Akkadist<q:obsolete> en anti-Sumerist anti-Akkadist<q:obsolete> en 1991 Aula Orientalis 58 https://books.google.com/books?id=kz9tAAAAMAAJ Both the Sumerist and anti-Sumerist positions had been alaborated primarily on the basis of Sumerian and bilingual texts from seventh century Nineveh. Translations of or relating to the Sumerists French: fr sumériste Derived terms en anti-Sumerist