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Book Synopsis The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān by : Fokelien Kootstra
Download or read book The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān written by Fokelien Kootstra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types.
Book Synopsis The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān by : Fokelien Kootstra
Download or read book The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān written by Fokelien Kootstra and published by Brill. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia at the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā (6th - 1st centuries BC), offering a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them.
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Download or read book The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE) by : Caroline Waerzeggers
Download or read book Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE) written by Caroline Waerzeggers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the linguistic diversity of personal names in cuneiform texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE).
Book Synopsis Approaches to the History of Written Culture by : Martyn Lyons
Download or read book Approaches to the History of Written Culture written by Martyn Lyons and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of ‘pre-literate’ societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private uses are examined. In ten studies, presented by leading historians of scribal culture from seven countries, the book investigates the uses of writing in non-alphabetical as well as alphabetical script, in societies ranging from Native America and ancient Korea to modern Europe. The authors emphasise the material characteristics of writing, and in so doing they pose questions about the definition of writing itself. Drawing on expertise in various disciplines, they give an up-to-date account of the current state of knowledge in a field at the forefront of ‘Book History’.
Book Synopsis To the Madbar and Back Again by : Laïla Nehmé
Download or read book To the Madbar and Back Again written by Laïla Nehmé and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael C.A. Macdonald is one of the great names of Arabian Studies. He pioneered the field of Ancient North Arabian and made invaluable contributions to the history of Arabia and the nomads of the Near East, their languages, and their scripts. This volume gathers thirty-two innovative contributions from leading scholars in the field to honor the career of Michael C.A. Macdonald, covering the languages and scripts of ancient Arabia, their history and archaeology, the Hellenistic Near East, and the modern dialects and languages of Arabia. The book is an essential part of the library of any who study the Near East, its languages and its cultures.
Book Synopsis The Origins of Writing by : Wayne M. Senner
Download or read book The Origins of Writing written by Wayne M. Senner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 12 essays outlines what is now known about the origins and development of writing. The topics discussed include such precursors to writing as the tokens used for record-keeping in the Middle East, as well as cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics.The alphabet is treated from its invention to its use in Arabic, Greek and Latin. Also presented are the writing systems of China and Middle America and two European systems, runes and ogham, that have been superseded by the Latin alphabet. An introduction surveys the subject and explores myths and theories on the invention of writing.
Book Synopsis Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures by : Seth L. Sanders
Download or read book Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures written by Seth L. Sanders and published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who invented national literature? What is the relationship between script, identity, and history? This volume contains papers from a symposium, which brought leading philologists together with anthropologists and historians to connect theories of writing, language, and identity with the results of ancient Near Eastern scholarship.
Book Synopsis Ancient Writing and Its Influence by : Berthold Louis Ullman
Download or read book Ancient Writing and Its Influence written by Berthold Louis Ullman and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Writing Revolution by : Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
Download or read book The Writing Revolution written by Amalia E. Gnanadesikan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the development of this communication tool to show how it has conquered the world. Explores how writing has liberated the world, making possible everything from complex bureaucracy, literature, and science, to instruction manuals and love letters Draws on an engaging range of examples, from the first cuneiform clay tablet, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Japanese syllabaries, to the printing press and the text messaging Weaves together ideas from a number of fields, including history, cultural studies and archaeology, as well as linguistics and literature, to create an interdisciplinary volume Traces the origins of each of the world’s major written traditions, along with their applications, adaptations, and cultural influences
Book Synopsis Ancient Writing and Its Influence by : Bernhold Louis Ullman
Download or read book Ancient Writing and Its Influence written by Bernhold Louis Ullman and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1969-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing by : Henry Noel Humphreys
Download or read book The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing written by Henry Noel Humphreys and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study of the art of writing offers a comprehensive look at the development of the written word over time. With detailed analysis of the evolution of writing in ancient cultures, as well as its continued development over time, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of language and communication. Written by Henry Noel Humphreys, one of the foremost scholars of ancient history, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the origins of writing, language, and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis A History of Writing by : Anne-Marie Christin
Download or read book A History of Writing written by Anne-Marie Christin and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 2002 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Art does not produce the visible but makes visible," wrote Paul Klee. This work examines and reinterprets this important principle-- writing does not reproduce speech, it makes it visible-- through an in-depth history of writing across the globe, from ancient civilization to the modern day. "A History of Writing" analyzes the role of the image in writing from three perspectives: * Part one is devoted to the oldest, non-alphabetic methods of writing, and to the ingenious developments devised by civilizations that chose to adapt them to their language and culture: from the ancient development of cuneiform script in southern Mesopotamia, to the intricate ideographic scripts of China and Japan, or the still-to-be-deciphered rongo-rongo script of Easter Island. * Part two focuses on the history and dissemination of alphabets, examining the origins of the Western semitic alphabet and its "sister" Arabic alphabet script, through to the lesser-known scripts of the Caucasus or of sub-Saharan Africa. * Part three, finally, examines the reincorporation of imagery into the Western alphabet, looking at various hand-written and printed forms, from the sumptuous illuminations of the "Book of Kells" to the rise of printing and of typographic forms in modern times, leading to questions over how different writing systems are now adapting in a world that is increasingly dominated by computer technology. In total, fifty-eight lavishly illustrated chapters present detailed yet accessible commentaries from a team of leading specialists in the study of writing. Together they explain and clarify the birth, evolution, and dissemination of over thirty key scripts and alphabets and theirnumerous derivatives. The breadth and scope of material covered, along with the detailed sources of documentation provided, make "A History of Writing" an essential and exciting new contribution to existing scholarship on this fascinating subject. With contributions from: Michel Amandry, Jacques André , Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Catherine Bizot, Franç ois Bizot, Daniel Bouchez, Jean Boulè gue, Dominique Briquel, Claire Bustarret, Nina Catach, Dominique Charpin, Roger Chartier, Anne-Marie Christin, Cé cile Dauphin, Michel Davoust, Franç ois Dé roche, Franç ois-Xavier Dillmann, Catherine Dobias-Lalou, Jean-Piere Drè ge, Jean-Marie Durand, Bé atrice Fraenkel, Pascal Griolet, Michaë l Guichard, Bertrand Hirsch, Yves Jeanneret, Pierre-Yves Lambert, Daniè le Lavallé e, André Lemaire, Sé golè ne Le Men, Franç ois Lissarrague, Jean-Pierre Mahé , Henri-Jean Martin, Charles Mopsik, Nguyen Phu Phong, Jean-Pierre Olivier, Jennifer O'Reilly, Michel Parisse, Armando Petrucci, Jacqueline Pigeot, Georges-Jean Pinault, René Ponot, Annie Renonciat, Daniel Roche, Cé cile Sakai, Marianne Simon-Oikawa, Martine Simonin, Darwin Smith, Emmanuel Souchier, Jacqueline Sublet, Marc Thouvenot, Lé on Vandermeersch, Pascal Vernus, Vladimir Vodoff
Book Synopsis The Two Pens of the Scribe by : Brian Timothy Donnelly-Lewis
Download or read book The Two Pens of the Scribe written by Brian Timothy Donnelly-Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores connections between early Iron Age alphabetic writing culture in the southern Levant (13th - 6th centuries) and Egyptian writing practices, both to posit the direct inheritance of various aspects of the former from the later and to shed light on documentary and writing practices in the southern Levant from the much well understood, and better materially attested, corpus of Egyptian. The dissertation combines anthropological and sociolinguistic views of writing, viewing writing as both human technology and visual communicative media, as broad theoretical frameworks for the investigation of writing as a "culture" and to provide some framework for beginning an investigating into its "origin" in the southern Levant.As human technology, written objects are here viewed as emblematic of the choices of actors in deliberate engagement with the material world. As such, epigraphs are viewed as material culture and themselves pieces of writing as a technological system. Thus, evidence is not limited to the epigraphs for their linguistic content but expands to include linguistic evidence related to writing and the evidence of writing associated material culture that shed light of the activity of writers (weights, seals, etc.). Aspects of production and use of materials are integral to understanding written objects as material culture. As such, linguistic, technological, and material data are brought together to describe the material processes of bringing a text into being, with a focus on the ways in which particular materials both index and generate socially significant meaning in the community of writers. As visual communicative media, written objects are here viewed as the creative products of writers who make distinct choices about the way in which a written object appears and how a text ultimately comes into being. As such, the letters on written objects become emblems of the techniques writers use, the postures they embody, and assumptions that they must make in constructing a written text. The method of drawing a letter (orthography; ductus), the final appearance of the letter (typography; allography), the use and integration of notation systems and associated symbols (numerical, metrological, and mathematical), the color and size of the letters (semiotics of typography), the direction of the letters, and the organizational plan of letters and written sigla (format and layout) are all valuable evidence for understanding writing culture as indwelt and shaped by writers themselves. These two aspects of writing culture undergird parts one (material) and two (practice) of the dissertation, respectively. The dissertation argues that Egyptian influence can be shown in both regards. From the material basis for writing, which includes the distinct writing lexicon (pen, ink, and palette) to the meaning and organization of visual aspects of writing, the influence of Egyptian writing culture on the communities responsible for proliferating the early alphabet at the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 1st millennium was pervasive and original. Appreciating the depth and breadth of the influence of Egyptian writing practice on alphabetic writing communities in the southern Levant during Late Bronze and Iron ages encourages further inquiry into cross-cultural exchange between Egypt and the Levant at the level of literature and religion.
Book Synopsis Writing and Ancient Near East Society by : Alan Ralph Millard
Download or read book Writing and Ancient Near East Society written by Alan Ralph Millard and published by T&T Clark. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series of papers on the general topic of writing and its uses and significance for wider ancient Near Eastern society, based on a colloquium in honor of Professor Alan Millard held in Liverpool in May 2003.
Book Synopsis Visualizing Knowledge and Creating Meaning in Ancient Writing Systems by : Shai Gordin
Download or read book Visualizing Knowledge and Creating Meaning in Ancient Writing Systems written by Shai Gordin and published by Pewe-Verlag. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient writing systems employ logographic and logophonetic principles playing on the relationship between writing, script and scribal learning. The workshop proceedings published in this volume explore the way these relationships encode knowledge and meaning reflected in the social, historical and cultural mentality of the early peoples of East Asia (China and Japan), Anatolia, the Aegean, Egypt and Mesoamerica. The meeting was organized in the FU Berlin on the fall of 2010 by the editor and Dr. Renata Landgrafova (now Charles University, Prague) in the frame of the DFG research training group 1458 "Notational Iconicity" ("Schriftbildlichkeit") headed by Prof. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum and Prof. Sybille Kramer. The premise of our meeting was that script and the organization of texts can reveal how knowledge is transformed and transmitted among different social groups across time and space, and eventually standardized as written tradition. Its multidisciplinary approach follows recent trends in the attempt to arouse debate between scholars of disparate systems of writing - be it Cuneiform, Hieroglyphic or Linear in nature - and to discuss their elements independent of origin or cultural context. A broad perspective on ancient writing and its visual elements was established with the contributions delving into the aspects of generating knowledge and meaning (J. Janak, M. Weeden), categorizing knowledge (E. Boot, T. W. Kwan, H. Tomas), diffusion and transformation of knowledge (Sh. Gordin, R. Landgrafova) and rationalizing knowledge (E. Birk).
Book Synopsis The Culture of Letter-writing in Pre-modern Islamic Society by : Adrian Gully
Download or read book The Culture of Letter-writing in Pre-modern Islamic Society written by Adrian Gully and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culture of Letter-Writing in Pre-Modern Islamic Society Adrian Gully This book offers a unique analysis of letter-writing in the Middle Islamic period. Writing letters was an important component of intellectual life at that time, telling us much about the cultural history of pre-modern Islamic society. Focusing on the notion of the power of the pen, the author looks at the wider context of epistolography, relating it to the power structures of Islamic society in that period. He also attempts to identify some of the similarities and differences between Muslim modes of letter-writing and those of western cultures. Readers will find detailed explanations of how letter-writing in that culture was much more than a vehicle of artistic prose. They will also learn about the conflict between writing and orality in Islamic society during the pre-Modern period. The author ? evaluates the background to letter-writing as the principal representation of state documents and communication; ? takes a close look at the literary principles employed in that process; ? considers the important social and intellectual role of the secretary and how he fitted into the power structure of Islamic society during this period; ? argues that the voluminous collections of letters, written mainly in artistic prose, can be classified as an epistolary genre in their own right; ? shows that Islamic letter-writing was very culture-specific One of the strengths of this book is that it is based on a wide range of primary Arabic sources, thus reflecting the broader epistemological importance of letter-writing in Islamic society. Adrian Gully is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at The Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. He is the author of Grammar and Semantics in Medieval Arabic (Curzon, 1995) and co-author of Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge, 2004).
