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Ancestor of the West. Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece
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Abstract
This small, elegantly written book, offers three distinct perspectives on civilization as it emerged in the more familiar ancient Greek tradition from antecedents in the Ancient Near East. Bott6ro's "Religion and Reasoning in Mesopotamia" (Part 1:3-66) outline themes that arose as the cuneiform tradition evolved in the hands of Sumerian and Akkadian scribes, while Herrenschmidt's "Writing between Visible and Invisible Worlds in Iran, Israel, and Greece: (11:69-146) characterizes conceptual changes in the transi tion from the cuneiform script based on a mixture of phonetic (syllabic) and non-phonetic (determinatives, logograms) signs to the phonetic alphabet on which …
