Libraries before Alexandria: ancient near eastern traditions First Edition Barjamovic

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199655359
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199655359
• Author(s): Barjamovic, Gojko;Ryholt, K. S. B

The creation of the Library of Alexandria is widely regarded as one of the great achievements in the history of humankind – a giant endeavour to amass all known literature and scholarly texts in one central location, so as to preserve it and make it available for the public. In turn, this event has been viewed as a historical turning point that separates the ancient world from classical antiquity. Standard works on the library continue to present the idea behind the institution as novel and, at least implicitly, as a product of Greek thought.

Yet, although the scale of the collection in Alexandria seems to have been unprecedented, the notion of creating central repositories of knowledge, while perhaps new to Greek tradition, was age-old in the Near East where the building was erected. Here the existence of libraries can be traced back another two millennia, from the twenty-seventh century BCE to the third century CE, and so the creation of the Library in Alexandria was not so much the beginning of an intellectual adventure as the impressive culmination of a very long tradition.

Table contents:

1. Libraries before Alexandria

2. The Rise of Libraries in Western Asia, c.2600–2300 bce

3. Libraries in Ancient Egypt, c.2600–1600 bce

4. Archives and Libraries in the Old Babylonian Period, c.1900–1600 bce

5. The Tablet Collections of the Hittite State, c.1650–1080 bce

6. Libraries in Syria and the Levant in the Late Bronze Age, c.1450–1100 bce

7. Libraries in Ancient Egypt, c.1600–800 bce

8. Scholarly Tablet Collections in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia, c.700–200 bce

9. Assurbanipal’s Library: An Overview

10. Libraries from Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egypt, c.800 bce–250 ce

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