With sadness, we are writing to share the news that Walter “Wally” E. Aufrecht passed away in Calgary, Canada the morning of Saturday, September 21, 2024.Requiescat in pace.... Wally was perhaps best known for his pioneering work on the Ammonite language, encapsulated by the second edition of his A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions, published by Eisenbrauns in 2019. His chapters on Ammonite religion, texts, and language in MacDonald and Younker’s Ancient Ammon are good summations of his larger body of work on those topics. His contributions were not limited to the Transjordanian languages, however. ...
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