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Libraries before Alexandria - Ancient Near Eastern Traditions (Hardcover)
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Libraries before Alexandria - Ancient Near Eastern Traditions (Hardcover)
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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. This volume
presents the first comprehensive study of these ancient libraries
across the 'Cradle of Civilization' and traces their institutional
and scholarly roots back to the early cities and states and the
advent of writing itself. Leading specialists in the intellectual
history of each individual period and region covered in the volume
present and discuss the enormous textual and archaeological
material available on the early collections, offering a uniquely
readable account intended for a broad audience of the libraries in
Egypt and Western Asia as centres of knowledge prior to the famous
Library of Alexandria.
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