The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres
(Book #35 in the Culture and History of the Ancient Near East Series)
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Literature begins at Sumer, we may say. Given that this ancient crossroads of tin and copper produced not only bronze and the entire Bronze Age, but also by neccesity, the first system of record-keeping and the technique of writing. Scribal schools served to propogate the new technique and their curriculum grew to create, preserve and transmit all manner of creative poetry. In a lifetime of research, the author has studied multiple aspects of this...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:9004173811
ISBN13:9789004173811
Release Date:November 2009
Publisher:Brill
Length:800 Pages
Weight:3.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"
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