Before and after Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires 1st Edition

Before and after Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197634660,0197634664,9780197634684, 0197634680

Product details:

• 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.

Table 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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