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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 2006. xi, 300pp. B&W illustrations. Excellent condition with no inscriptions. PLEASE NOTE: heavyish book so a little extra may be needed for shipping to non-UK customers. "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.". …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 275 pages. 9.20x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Oriental Institute Seminars 2. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, 2006. First edition. In-8, xi & 300 pages. Original softcover, new, still under shrink wrap. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Contents: Margins of writing, origins of cultures / Seth L. Sanders -- Writing and the state : China, India, and general definitions / John Kelly -- Writing in another tongue : alloglottography in the ancient Near East ; Postscript (December 2007) / Gonzalo Rubio -- Abundance in the margins : multiplicity of script in the Demotic magical papyri / Jacco Dieleman -- Response for the first session : origins, functions, adaptation, survival / Jerrold S. Cooper -- Bilingualism, scribal learning, and the death of Sumerian / Christopher Woods -- Multilingual inscriptions and their audiences : Cilicia and Lycia / Annick Payne -- Aramaic, the death of written Hebrew, and language shift in the Persian period / William M. Schniedewind -- Response for the second session : writing at the chronotopic margins of empires / Michael Silverstein -- The lives of the Sumerian language / Piotr Michalowski -- Official and vernacular languages : the shifting sands of imperial and cultural identities in first-millennium B.C. Mesopotamia / Paul-Alain Beaulieu -- Institutions, vernaculars, publics : the case of second-millennium Anatolia / Theo van den Hout -- Postscript (November 2007) / Theo van den Hout -- Writing, writers, and reading in the kingdom of Van / Paul Zimansky -- Response for third session : power and culture beyond ideology and identity / Sheldon Pollock -- Final response : on the study of the ancients, language, writing, and the state / Peter Machinist. Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Mesopotamia.…