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Sarah Baker

Sarah Baker

Assistant Professor of the Practice in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
sarah.lynn.baker@duke.edu
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

“Biblical Hebrew Dialogues in the Language Classroom"

Journal Article Hebrew Higher Education · 2025 Dialogues that are excerpted directly from biblical narrative can serve as a valuable learning tool in the Biblical Hebrew (BH) classroom. The question of what constitutes “authentic” Biblical Hebrew is of particular concern to instructors who embrace a mo ... Link to item Cite

“And Now”: Transitions in Northwest Semitic Epigraphy and Narrative

Journal Article Maarav · August 26, 2022 The Canaanite phrase wꜤt ‘and now’ appears frequently both in epigraphic material from the first millennium B.C.E. and in direct speech within Biblical Hebrew narrative. As a macrosyntactic marker signaling a transition, wꜤt most commonly introduces a comm ... Cite

Counting in Ugaritic: A New Analysis of kbd*

Journal Article Journal of Semitic Studies · April 1, 2018 Full text Cite