ISBN10: 0801873894, ISBN13: 9780801873898, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Hardcover Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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ISBN10: 0801873894, ISBN13: 9780801873898, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore] Hardcover First Edition 2003. xvii, 266pp. B&W illustrations. "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 meeting the daily needs of economic and government administration, but also providing a new means of understanding the world. In The Invention of Cuneiform Jean-Jacques Glassner offers a compelling introduction to this seminal era in human history. Returning to early Mesopotamian texts that have been little studied or poorly understood, he traces the development of writing from the earliest attempts to the sophisticated system of roughly 640 signs that comprised the Sumerian repertory by about 3200 B.C. Glassner further argues - with an occasional nod to Derrida - that the invention of writing had a deeper metaphysical significance. By bringing the divinely ordained spoken language under human control, Sumerians were able to "make invisibility visible," separating themselves from the divine order and creating a new model of ...

Baltimore & London: The John Hopkins University Press , Date: 2000. Book measures 23.5x15.5.cm. xvii,[3],266pp. Bound in original publishers black cloth, with gilt lettering. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket in very good clean condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A nice copy. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 2000. The John Hopkins University Press ISBN 0801873894 9780801873898 [GB]

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