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Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and Further West Before 1400 B.C.

Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and Further West Before 1400 B.C.

Bernal, Martin

Hardcover

Series: Neuen Testament; 49

LinguisticsAncient History General

ISBN10: 0931464471
ISBN13: 9780931464478
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: Jun 30 1990
Pages: 176
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.07
Language: English

Western civilization has long sought its cultural roots in the classical civilizations of the Aegean. During the twentieth century, however, it has been made increasingly clear that it owes a great debt to the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent. In the thick of the debate as to how much classical civilizations were influenced by the Levant has been the question of the date of the transmission of the alphabet. In this monograph, Bernal takes up the question anew and marshals persuasive arguments that the date of transmission of the alphabet should be moved considerably earlier than generally has been thought, to the middle of the second millennium B.C. Growing out of his work on Black Athena, the intricate matters of alphabetic history and transmission are dealt with, both in terms of the history of the investigation of the topic and also with regard to the specific working out of his own new proposal.

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