Inventing the alphabet the origins of letters from antiquity to the present

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The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history. Beginning with Biblical tales and accounts from antiquity, Drucker traces the transmission of ancient Greek thinking about the alphabet's origin and debates about how Moses learned to read. The book moves through the centuries, finishing with contemporary concepts of the letters in alpha-numeric code used for global communication systems. Along the way, we learn about magical and angelic alphabets, antique inscriptions on coins and artifacts, and the comparative tables of scripts that continue through the development of modern fields of archaeology and paleography. This is the first book to chronicle the story of the intellectual history through which the alphabet has been invented as an object of scholarship.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 26 juli 2022

Aantal pagina's: 384

Illustraties: Met illustraties

Hoofdauteur: Johanna Drucker

Hoofduitgeverij: The University Of Chicago Press

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 180 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm

Verpakking lengte: 233 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 1070 g

EAN: 9780226815817

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