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ISBN-10 :  0197634680 

ISBN-13 : 9780197634684

Author : Marc Van De Mieroop 

“The Lord confused the language of all the earth,” so the Tower of Babel story in the Hebrew Bible’s book of Genesis tells us to explain why the world’s people communicate in countless languages while previously they all spoke only one. This book argues that the biblical confusion really happened in the ancient Near East, not in speech, however, but in writing. It examines the millennia-long history of writing in the region and shows a radical change from the third and second millennia to the first millennium BC.

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” scribes 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 Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian empires that controlled their world, oftentimes as acts of resistance, aware of cosmopolitan ideas and motifs but subverting them. In order to frame the rich intellectual history of this region in the ancient past Before and after Babel describes and analyzes the Babylonian cosmopolitan system, how ancient Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and other vernacular systems interacted with it in multiple and intricate ways, and their consequences.

Before and after Babel 1st Table of contents:

Part I: The Babylonian Cosmopolis: The Cuneiform Sign
1. Reading Gilgameš in the Zagros Mountains: The Eighteenth Century bc
2. In the Spell of Babylonian Writing
3. Mystery Guardians of an Ancient Tradition
4. The Height of Cosmopolitanism: Reading Gilgameš in Hattusas
Coda
Part II: The Vernacular Millennium: The Tower of Babel
5. Scrupulous Continuity
6. Luwian: The Ephemeral Success of a Non-Cosmopolitan Tradition
7. Vernaculars That Changed the World: Phoenician and Aramaic
8. From Minority Languages to World Literatures: The Hebrew Case
9. From Minority Languages to World Literatures: The Greek Case
10. The Vernacular and Its Consequences

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