MARC Record from marc_claremont_school_theology

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001 ocm00308353
003 OCoLC
005 20200617073243.7
008 720427s1962 nyuabfh b 000 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)00308353
050 00 $aP211$b.D55
082 00 $a411
082 04 $a411.09$223
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aDiringer, David,$d1900-1975.
245 10 $aWriting.
260 $aNew York,$bPraeger,$c[1962]
300 $a261 pages$billustrations, plates, 3 maps, facsimiles, tables$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aBooks that matter
490 1 $aAncient peoples and places ;$vv. 25
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 179-184).
520 $aA concise yet wide-ranging survey of the invention and evolution of writing. The invention of writing marked the real beginning of civilization as we know it. Without writing, scholarship, religion, philosophy--and indeed, knowledge of every kind--would be rudimentary, for all these things depend on the traditions of communicable intelligence that only writing really secures. As a conscious and systematic activity, writing began in the fourth millennium B.C., its first known manifestation being cuneiform in Mesopotamia; its second, the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Each represents an immense step forward in human intellectual development. Later, and still more dramatically, comes the first alphabetic script, which originated in Phoenicia and from which all the known alphabetic scripts used today are derived.--Adapted from jacket.
505 0 $aI. Primitive means of communication. Memory aid devices -- II. Analytic scripts of ancient Near East. Cuneiform writing ; Egyptian writing ; Cretan scripts ; Indus Valley script ; Hittite scripts -- III. The Far East. Chinese writing ; Non-Chinese scripts of China ; Japanese scripts ; Easter Island script -- IV. Pre-Columbian America. Cultural puzzle of Pre-Columbian America ; Mayan script ; Aztec script -- V. Phonetic scripts and the alphabet. Pseudo-hieroglyphic script of Byblos ; Cypriote syllabary ; Persian cuneiform ; Origin of the alphabet -- VI. Diffusion of the alphabet. Canaanite branch ; Aramaic branch ; Greek alphabet ; Latin alphabet.
590 $bArchive
650 0 $aWriting$xHistory.
650 7 $aWriting.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01181638
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08 $iOnline version:$aDiringer, David, 1900-1975.$tWriting.$dNew York, Praeger [1962]$w(OCoLC)579147071
830 0 $aAncient peoples and places (Praeger) ;$vv. 25.
830 0 $aBooks that matter.
994 $a92$bCST
976 $a10011361109