Author: Martin Bernal
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9780931464478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Western civilization has long sought its cultural roots in the classical civilizations of the Aegean. During the twentieth century, however, it has been made increasingly clear that it owes a great debt to the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent. In the thick of the debate as to how much classical civilizations were influenced by the Levant has been the question of the date of the transmission of the alphabet. In this monograph, Bernal takes up the question anew and marshals persuasive arguments that the date of transmission of the alphabet should be moved considerably earlier than generally has been thought, to the middle of the second millennium B.C. Growing out of his work on Black Athena, the intricate matters of alphabetic history and transmission are dealt with, both in terms of the history of the investigation of the topic and also with regard to the specific working out of his own new proposal.
Cadmean Letters
Author: Martin Bernal
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9780931464478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Western civilization has long sought its cultural roots in the classical civilizations of the Aegean. During the twentieth century, however, it has been made increasingly clear that it owes a great debt to the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent. In the thick of the debate as to how much classical civilizations were influenced by the Levant has been the question of the date of the transmission of the alphabet. In this monograph, Bernal takes up the question anew and marshals persuasive arguments that the date of transmission of the alphabet should be moved considerably earlier than generally has been thought, to the middle of the second millennium B.C. Growing out of his work on Black Athena, the intricate matters of alphabetic history and transmission are dealt with, both in terms of the history of the investigation of the topic and also with regard to the specific working out of his own new proposal.
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9780931464478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Western civilization has long sought its cultural roots in the classical civilizations of the Aegean. During the twentieth century, however, it has been made increasingly clear that it owes a great debt to the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent. In the thick of the debate as to how much classical civilizations were influenced by the Levant has been the question of the date of the transmission of the alphabet. In this monograph, Bernal takes up the question anew and marshals persuasive arguments that the date of transmission of the alphabet should be moved considerably earlier than generally has been thought, to the middle of the second millennium B.C. Growing out of his work on Black Athena, the intricate matters of alphabetic history and transmission are dealt with, both in terms of the history of the investigation of the topic and also with regard to the specific working out of his own new proposal.
The Alphabet
Author: Isaac Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Universal Palaeography: Oriental writing. Greek writing. Latin writing in general
Author: Champollion-Figeac (M., Jacques-Joseph)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paleography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paleography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Inventing the Alphabet
Author: Johanna Drucker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226815803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history. Beginning with Biblical tales and accounts from antiquity, Drucker traces the transmission of ancient Greek thinking about the alphabet’s origin and debates about how Moses learned to read. The book moves through the centuries, finishing with contemporary concepts of the letters in alpha-numeric code used for global communication systems. Along the way, we learn about magical and angelic alphabets, antique inscriptions on coins and artifacts, and the comparative tables of scripts that continue through the development of modern fields of archaeology and paleography. This is the first book to chronicle the story of the intellectual history through which the alphabet has been “invented” as an object of scholarship.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226815803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history. Beginning with Biblical tales and accounts from antiquity, Drucker traces the transmission of ancient Greek thinking about the alphabet’s origin and debates about how Moses learned to read. The book moves through the centuries, finishing with contemporary concepts of the letters in alpha-numeric code used for global communication systems. Along the way, we learn about magical and angelic alphabets, antique inscriptions on coins and artifacts, and the comparative tables of scripts that continue through the development of modern fields of archaeology and paleography. This is the first book to chronicle the story of the intellectual history through which the alphabet has been “invented” as an object of scholarship.
The Aryan Origin of the Alphabet, Disclosing the Sumero-Phoenician Parentage of Our Letters Ancient & Modern
Author: Laurence Austine Waddell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Abbreviations for references": pages vii-viii.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"Abbreviations for references": pages vii-viii.
Universal Palaeography
Author: Champollion-Figeac (M., Jacques-Joseph)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paleography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paleography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
*Fac-similes of Writings of All Nations and Periods
Author: Silvestre (Joseph Balthasar)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Alphabet
Cuneorum Clavis. The primitive alphabet and language of the ancient ones of the earth ... Edited by H. W. Hemsworth
Author: Daniel SMITH (of Melbourne.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description