Bottero, J: Mesopotamia - Writing, Reasoning, & the Gods Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
13.07.1995
Verlag
University of Chicago Pr.Seitenzahl
326
Maße (L/B/H)
23.4/15.1/1.9 cm
Gewicht
482 g
Übersetzt von
Bahrani Zainab + weitere
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-226-06727-8
Our ancestors, the Mesopotamians, invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean Bottero attempts to go back to the moment which marks the very beginning of history.
To give the reader some sense of how Mesopotamian civilization has been mediated and interpreted in its transmission through time, Bottero begins with an account of Assyriology, the discipline devoted to the ancient culture. This transmission, compounded with countless discoveries, would not have been possible without the surprising decipherment of the cuneiform writing system. Bottero also focuses on divination in the ancient world, contending that certain modes of worship in Mesopotamia, in their application of causality and proof, prefigure the "scientific mind."
To give the reader some sense of how Mesopotamian civilization has been mediated and interpreted in its transmission through time, Bottero begins with an account of Assyriology, the discipline devoted to the ancient culture. This transmission, compounded with countless discoveries, would not have been possible without the surprising decipherment of the cuneiform writing system. Bottero also focuses on divination in the ancient world, contending that certain modes of worship in Mesopotamia, in their application of causality and proof, prefigure the "scientific mind."
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