ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 explores a letter from Canaan, EA 147, which has an unusually high number of Egyptian features. The scribe, who writes on behalf of Abimilki of Tyre and uses Egyptian language forms and refers to Egyptian religion and politics, stands out from other Amarna Period scribes. While this scribe was initially thought to be an Egyptian, the preponderance of Canaanite scribal forms in the letter suggests that we are instead looking at the work of a highly skilled, articulate, and cosmopolitan scribe who employed Egyptian elements in order to communicate with an Egyptian scribal audience. This case study examines the range of code-alternation and its rhetorical function in this letter as a mode of in-grouping with the scribes working for the pharaoh.
