The ancient Near East is not only where the world's earliest writing system, Babylonian cuneiform, was invented some 5,000 years ago, but also where nearly 2,000 years later numerous other scripts developed each to write a specific language. As a framework for the rich intellectual history of this region's ancient past, this book investigates how this
The ancient Near East is not only where the world's earliest writing system, Babylonian cuneiform, was invented some 5,000 years ago, but also where nearly 2,000 years later numerous other scripts developed each to write a specific language. As a framework for the rich intellectual history of this region's ancient past, this book investigates how thisHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Marc Van De Mieroop is Professor of History at Columbia University. His previous books include The Ancient Mesopotamian City, Philosophy before the Greeks, and, as coauthor, World in the Making: A Global History.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Illustrations * Introduction * Part I: The Babylonian Cosmopolis * The cuneiform sign * Chapter 1: Reading Gilgamesh in the Zagros Mountains: the eighteenth century BC * Chapter 2: In the spell of Babylonian writing * Chapter 3: Mystery Guardians of an ancient tradition * Chapter 4: The height of cosmopolitanism: Reading Gilgamesh in Hattusas * Coda * Part II: The Vernacular Millennium * The Tower of Babel * Chapter 5: Scrupulous continuity * Chapter 6: Luwian: The Ephemeral Success of a Non-Cosmopolitan Tradition * Chapter 7: Vernaculars that changed the world: Phoenician and Aramaic * Chapter 8: From minority languages to world literatures: the Hebrew case * Chapter 9: From minority languages to world literatures: the Greek case * Chapter 10: The vernacular and its consequences * Epilogue: Clash of cosmopoleis? * Bibliography * Index
* List of Illustrations * Introduction * Part I: The Babylonian Cosmopolis * The cuneiform sign * Chapter 1: Reading Gilgamesh in the Zagros Mountains: the eighteenth century BC * Chapter 2: In the spell of Babylonian writing * Chapter 3: Mystery Guardians of an ancient tradition * Chapter 4: The height of cosmopolitanism: Reading Gilgamesh in Hattusas * Coda * Part II: The Vernacular Millennium * The Tower of Babel * Chapter 5: Scrupulous continuity * Chapter 6: Luwian: The Ephemeral Success of a Non-Cosmopolitan Tradition * Chapter 7: Vernaculars that changed the world: Phoenician and Aramaic * Chapter 8: From minority languages to world literatures: the Hebrew case * Chapter 9: From minority languages to world literatures: the Greek case * Chapter 10: The vernacular and its consequences * Epilogue: Clash of cosmopoleis? * Bibliography * Index
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