Inventing the Alphabet
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Inventing the Alphabet

The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present

Johanna Drucker

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Inventing the Alphabet

The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present

Johanna Drucker

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The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history.Beginning with Biblical tales and accounts from antiquity, Drucker traces the transmission of ancient Greek thinking about the alphabet's origin and debates about how Moses learned to read. The book moves through the centuries, finishing with contemporary concepts of the letters in alpha-numeric code used for global communication systems. Along the way, we learn about magical and angelic alphabets, antique inscriptions on coins and artifacts, and the comparative tables of scripts that continue through the development of modern fields of archaeology and paleography.This is the first book to chronicle the story of the intellectual history through which the alphabet has been "invented" as an object of scholarship.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780226815800
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. one  When Did the Alphabet Become “Greek”?
  7. two  Divine Gifts: Original Letters, Moses, and the Tablets at Mount Sinai
  8. three  Medieval Copyists: Magical Letters, Mythic Scripts, and Exotic Alphabets
  9. four  The Confusion of Tongues and Compendia of Scripts
  10. five  Antiquity Explained: The Origin and Progress of Letters
  11. six  The Rhetoric of Tables and the Harmony of Alphabets
  12. seven  Modern Archaeology: Putting the Evidence of the Alphabet in Place
  13. eight  Reading the Early Alphabet: Epigraphy and Paleography
  14. nine  Alphabet Effects and the Politics of Script
  15. coda  Alphabetic Agency and Global Hegemony
  16. Notes
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Index
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APA 6 Citation

Drucker, J. (2022). Inventing the Alphabet ([edition unavailable]). The University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3591569/inventing-the-alphabet-the-origins-of-letters-from-antiquity-to-the-present-pdf (Original work published 2022)

Chicago Citation

Drucker, Johanna. (2022) 2022. Inventing the Alphabet. [Edition unavailable]. The University of Chicago Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/3591569/inventing-the-alphabet-the-origins-of-letters-from-antiquity-to-the-present-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Drucker, J. (2022) Inventing the Alphabet. [edition unavailable]. The University of Chicago Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3591569/inventing-the-alphabet-the-origins-of-letters-from-antiquity-to-the-present-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Drucker, Johanna. Inventing the Alphabet. [edition unavailable]. The University of Chicago Press, 2022. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.