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"Abbreviations for references": pages vii-viii.
Author : Laurence Austine Waddell
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Alphabet
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"Abbreviations for references": pages vii-viii.
Author : Isaac Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Alphabet
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Author : Johanna Drucker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0226815803
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.
Author : Nkosi Ajanaku
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : Martin Bernal
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780931464478
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.
Author : Silvestre (Joseph Balthasar)
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 1850
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Author : Isaac Taylor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2024-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385347157
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : George Robins Gliddon
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Egypt
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Author : Robert Graves
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0374710384
The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language.
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Page : 764 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1816
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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