A Phoenician-Punic Grammar (Handbook of Oriental Studies) Paperback – 31 Oct. 2014

This book is composed of very technical language, and to know the pronunciation of words, you are required to know some basic Hebrew.Phoenician-Punic is the language spoken by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, some of the most famous of these is Hannibal Barka (HNB'L BRK), who crossed the Alps in 218 BC with an army of 100`000 infantry, 20`000 cavalry and 37 elephants.During the reading of this book, you begin to appreciate the fact that the language is indeed very similar to modern Hebrew. Modern Hebrew is in fact not even true Hebrew, but a Phoenician dialect.Krahmalkov is considered by his peers to have taken bold steps when writing these books on the Phoenician-Punic languages. One of these bold steps was to use Neo-Punic poetry from pottery in the analysis.

Was expecting at least a dictionary inside of some sort but nothing. He has basically pasted some random sentences together and provided translations for some of them. He hasn't even done it alphabetical order. So anyone expecting a dictionary look else where, this is just a collection of ancient sentences with some translations. Not worth the money at all.