Before and after Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires

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The ancient Near East is not only where the world`s earliest writing system, Babylonian cuneiform, was invented some 5,000 years ago, but also where nearly 2,000 years later numerous other scripts developed each to write a specific language. As a framework for the rich intellectual history of this region`s ancient past, this book investigates how this

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