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Before and after Babel - Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (Hardcover)
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Before and after Babel - Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (Hardcover)
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"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. Before
"Babel" any intellectual who wrote did so as a participant in a
cosmopolitan tradition with its roots in Babylonia, its language,
and its cuneiform script. After "Babel" scribes from all over the
eastern Mediterranean, including Greece, used a profusion of
vernacular languages and scripts to express themselves. Yet they
did so in dialogue with the Babylonian cuneiform tradition still
maintained by the successive Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian
empires that controlled their world, oftentimes as acts of
resistance, aware of cosmopolitan ideas and motifs but subverting
them. In order to frame the rich intellectual history of this
region in the ancient past Before and after Babel describes and
analyzes the Babylonian cosmopolitan system, how ancient Greek,
Hebrew, Aramaic, and other vernacular systems interacted with it in
multiple and intricate ways, and their consequences.
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