[PDF.90pk] The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer

The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer

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 | #839442 in Books |  The Johns Hopkins University Press |  2003-11-17 | Original language:French | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.18 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Very Happy-Will Buy|By Professor Bowden|This book is one of the best books that I have read on this subject. The author is very detailed and goes into the subject on a very knowledgable level. Being a Sumerian specialist myself I was very challenged in some of his comments as well as very excited to learn even more and recommend this book if you want to be accepted into academi| ||Glassner does not content himself with giving the Sumerian invention its full measure. He renders an homage to all writing that makes reparation for numerous humiliations. (Le Monde)

|A strikingly original analysis of the origin of cuneiform

As the first known system of writing, the cuneiform symbols traced in Sumerian clay more than six millennia ago were once regarded as a simplistic and clumsy attempt to record in linear form the sounds of a spoken language. More recently, scholars have acknowledged that early Sumerian writing―far from being a primitive and flawed mechanism that would be "improved" by the Phoenicians and Greeks―in fact represented a complete written language system, not only meetin...

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