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Who invented national literature? What is the relationship between script, identity, and history? Recorded history began in the ancient Near East, but we are just beginning to explore the powerful creative relationship between writing and the political identities of the Near East's cultures. This symposium was the first to bring leading philologists together with anthropologists and historians to connect theories of writing, language, and identity with the latest results of ancient Near Eastern scholarship. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 1. "Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures." Seth Sanders, University of Chicago FIRST INSTITUTIONS 2. "Writing and the China, India, and General Definitions." John Kelly, University of Chicago 3. "Writing in Another Alloglottography in the Ancient Near East." Gonzalo Rubio, Pennsylvania State University 4. "Abundance in the Multiplicity of Script in the Demotic Magical Papyri." Jacco Dieleman, University of California Los Angeles 5. "Response for First Session." Jerrold Cooper, Johns Hopkins University SECOND PUBLICS 6. "Bilingualism, Scribal Learning, and the Death of Sumerian." Christopher Woods, University of Chicago 7. "Multilingual Inscripti

Author

Seth L. Sanders; with contributions by Seth L. Sanders ... [et al.]

Publisher

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781885923394

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Anthropology, History