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Before Babel [Videorecording].
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Author: BEFORE BABEL
Author: Madeleine DainesPublisher:
ISBN: 9782956045915
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
With images of over 150 of the original pre-cuneiform Sumerian symbols. BEFORE BABEL THE CRYSTAL TONGUE demonstrates how to read this most ancient and sacred language where the placing of each symbol follows rules not found in modern grammar books. The source of place names and mythological figures are explored and discussed.
Film & Video Finder
Author: Publisher: Plexus Publishing (NJ)
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 2450
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BEFORE BABEL AND OTHER STORIES.
Author: RAY. KOHNPublisher:
ISBN: 9781804393420
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Before and After Babel
Author: Marc Van de MieroopPublisher:
ISBN: 9780197634684
Category : Cuneiform writing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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""The Lord confused the language of all the earth," so says the Tower of Babel story in the Hebrew Bible to explain why people communicate in countless languages while previously they spoke only one. This book argues that something like the biblical confusion really happened in the ancient Near East, not in speech but in writing. It examines the millennia-long history of writing there, and shows a radical change from the third and second millennia to the first millennium BC. While before Babel any intellectual who wrote did so as a participant in a cosmopolitan tradition with its roots in Babylonia, its language and its cuneiform script, after Babel people from all over the eastern Mediterranean, including Greece, used a profusion of vernacular languages and scripts to express themselves. Yet they did so in dialogue with the Babylonian cuneiform tradition still maintained by the successive empires that controlled their world, oftentimes as acts of resistance, aware of cosmopolitan ideas and motifs but subverting them. As a way to frame the rich intellectual history of this region in the ancient past, the book describes and analyzes the cosmopolitan and vernacular systems, how they interacted in multiple and intricate ways, and what the consequences were"--
Light on the Old Testament from Babel
Author: Albert Tobias ClayPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 437
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Before Babel
Author: Nimrod: The Tower of Babel by Trey Smith (Paperback)
Author: Trey SmithPublisher: Preflood to Nimrod to Exodus
ISBN: 9781733490320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Nimrod: The Tower of Babel is likely one of the BEST PRESENTATION on Nimrod and the Tower of Babel ever in print. In this book, we use actual Sumerian texts, artifacts, and the Biblical account to bring Nimrod, Noah and the Tower of Babel to life. This is a full color, high definition imagery book by Trey Smith.
The Essential Fictions
Author: Isaak BabelʹPublisher:
ISBN: 9780810135956
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Isaac Babel: The Essential Fictions is a collection of seventy-two of Isaac Babel's finest short stories and includes Red Cavalry, Odessa Stories, and the "Dovecote" cycle. Newly edited, translated, and annotated by Val Vinokur, this collection also features illustrations by Babel's fellow Odessan Yefim Ladyzhensky.
Aetherial Worlds
Author: Tatyana TolstayaPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1524732788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
“Playful and poetic . . . A foxy, original writer. Memory fuses with wonder, and wonder with worship." —The Wall Street Journal “Marvelously vivid, perfectly tuned. . . Tolstaya is well known in Russia as a brilliant and caustic political critic, but her memories of her Soviet childhood have a tender, personal quality.” —The New York Times Book Review “Grimly hilarious ... Everything in this generous writer’s hands is vivid and alive …Tolstaya is divinely quotable—slangy, indignant, lyrical, crude...It’s all sublime...the swerve and cackle, the breeziness and dark depths...the torrents of language and the offhand perfect touch…She has been compared to Chekhov. Absurd...Tolstaya barrels by him and knocks him in the ditch.” —Joy Williams, Bookforum From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty years. Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories. A woman's deceased father appears in her dreams with clues about the afterlife; a Russian professor in a small American town constructs elaborate fantasies during her cigarette break; a man falls in love with a marble statue as his marriage falls apart; a child glimpses heaven through a stained-glass window. With the emotional insight of Chekhov, the surreal satire of Gogol, and a unique blend of humor and poetry all her own, Tolstaya transmutes the quotidian into aetherial alternatives. These tales, about politics, identity, love, and loss, cut to the core of the Russian psyche, even as they lay bare human universals. Tolstaya's characters--seekers all--are daydreaming children, lonely adults, dislocated foreigners in unfamiliar lands. Whether contemplating the strategic complexities of delivering telegrams in Leningrad or the meditative melancholy of holiday aspic, vibrant inner lives and the grim elements of existence are registered in equally sharp detail in a starkly bleak but sympathetic vision of life on earth. A unique collection from one of the first women in years to rank among Russia's most important writers.