Название: Before and after Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires
Автор: Marc Van De Mieroop
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: ‎0197634664
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 361
Размер: 21,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

"The Lord confused the language of all the earth," so the Tower of Babel story in the Hebrew Bible's book of Genesis tells us to explain why the world's people communicate in countless languages while previously they all spoke only one. This book argues that the biblical confusion really happened in the ancient Near East, not in speech, however, but in writing.