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Invention of Cuneiform : Writing in Sumer by Jean-Jacques Glassner (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-100801873894
ISBN-139780801873898
eBay Product ID (ePID)2420750
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameInvention of Cuneiform : Writing in Sumer
LanguageEnglish
SubjectArchaeology, Ancient / General, Alphabets & Writing Systems, Linguistics / General
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
AuthorJean-Jacques Glassner
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2002-154025
ReviewsDid writing evolve from multiple stimuli into a script that represented a particular language? Or was it invented by a genius at a particular place and time? How did it happen? Jean-Jacques Glassner sets out to answer these questions in this stimulating book, translated from the French, in which he presents his own view -- that writing was invented not as a recording device, nor as a primitive linkage of symbols representing objects, but as a purposeful rendering of the Sumerian language., "Did writing evolve from multiple stimuli into a script that represented a particular language? Or was it invented by a genius at a particular place and time? How did it happen? Jean-Jacques Glassner sets out to answer these questions in this stimulating book, translated from the French, in which he presents his own view -- that writing was invented not as a recording device, nor as a primitive linkage of symbols representing objects, but as a purposeful rendering of the Sumerian language." -- Stephanie Dalley, Technology and Culture, "Glassner has a sturdy knowledge of Sumerian writing, and good knowledge as well of the cuneiform languages that followed Sumerian, as well as New World pictographic writing." -- John A. C. Greppin, Times Literary Supplement, 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., "Glassner does not content himself with giving the Sumerian invention its full measure. He renders a homage to all writing which makes reparation for numerous humiliations."--André Meury, Le Monde, Glassner has a sturdy knowledge of Sumerian writing, and good knowledge as well of the cuneiform languages that followed Sumerian, as well as New World pictographic writing., "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
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal499.95
Original LanguageFrench
SynopsisIn The Invention of Cuneiform Jean-Jacques Glassner offers a compelling introduction to a 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 constituted the Sumerian repertory by about 3200 B.C., 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 power.
LC Classification NumberP211.G5413 2003
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