Before and after Babel: writing as resistance in ancient Near Eastern empires
""The Lord confused the language of all the earth," so says the Tower of Babel story in the Hebrew Bible to explain why people communicate in countless languages while previously they spoke only one. This book argues that something like the biblical confusion really happened in the an...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Reviews: | The Scribal Turn in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (2024) (Koller, Aaron J., 1978 -)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ancient Orient
/ Writing
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Cuneiform writing
History
B Writing (Middle East) History To 1500 |
| Online Access: |
Table of Contents Table of Contents (Aggregator) Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Electronic |
