Download or read book Cadmean Letters written by Martin Bernal and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1990 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Aryan Origin of the Alphabet Disclosing the Sumero Phoenician Parentage of Our Letters Ancient Modern written by Laurence Austine Waddell and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abbreviations for references": pages vii-viii.
Download or read book Chronological Antiquities written by John Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chronological Antiquities Or the Antiquities and Chronology of the Most Ancient Kingdoms from the Creation of the World of the Space of Five Thousand Years written by John Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Inventing the Alphabet written by Johanna Drucker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book The Alphabet An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters written by Isaac Taylor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-24 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Postclassicisms written by Postclassicisms Collective and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made up of nine prominent scholars, The Postclassicisms Collective aims to map a space for theorizing and reflecting on the values attributed to antiquity. The product of these reflections, Postclassicisms takes up a set of questions about what it means to know and care about Greco-Roman antiquity in our turbulent world and offers suggestions for a discipline in transformation, as new communities are being built around the study of the ancient Greco-Roman world. Structured around three primary concepts--value, time, and responsibility--and nine additional concepts, Postclassicisms asks scholars to reflect upon why they choose to work in classics, to examine how proximity to and distance from antiquity has been--and continues to be--figured, and to consider what they seek to accomplish within their own scholarly practices. Together, the authors argue that a stronger critical self-awareness, an enhanced sense of the intellectual history of the methods of classics, and a greater understanding of the ethical and political implications of the decisions that the discipline makes will lead to a more engaged intellectual life, both for classicists and, ultimately, for society. A timely intervention into the present and future of the discipline, Postclassicisms will be required reading for professional classicists and students alike and a model for collaborative disciplinary intervention by scholars in other fields.
Download or read book Fac similes of Writings of All Nations and Periods written by Silvestre (Joseph Balthasar) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica Or Dictionary of Arts Sciences and General Literature with Preliminary Dissertations on the History of the Sciences and Other Extensive Improvements and Additions Including the Late Supplement a General Index and Numerous Engravings written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Black Athena Revisited written by Mary R. Lefkowitz and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Western civilization founded by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians? Can the ancient Egyptians usefully be called black? Did the ancient Greeks borrow religion, science, and philosophy from the Egyptians and Phoenicians? Have scholars i
Download or read book Universal Palaeography written by Champollion-Figeac (M., Jacques-Joseph) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Universal Palaeography Or Fac similes of Writings of All Nations and Periods Copied from the Most Celebrated and Authentic Manuscripts in the Libraries and Archives of France Italy Germany and England by J B Silvestre written by J. B. Silvestre and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
