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100 1 $aBottéro, Jean.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85183037
240 10 $aOrient ancien et nous.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99023460
245 10 $aAncestor of the West :$bwriting, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece /$cJean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt and Jean-Pierre Vernant ; with a foreword by François Zabbal ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c[2000], ©2000.
300 $axiii, 192 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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500 $aTranslation of: L'Orient ancien et nous.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 177-181) and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rFrancois Zabbal --$gPt. 1.$tReligion and Reasoning in Mesopotamia /$rJean Bottero.$g1.$tThe Birth of Civilization.$g2.$tThe First Writing.$g3.$tThe Intelligence of the World.$g4.$tThe Gods: A Reasonable Religion --$gPt. 2.$tWriting between Visible and Invisible Worlds in Iran, Israel, and Greece /$rClarisse Herrenschmidt.$g5.$tElamite Civilization and Writing.$g6.$tConsonant Alphabets, the Greek Alphabet, and Old Persian Cuneiform.$g7.$tOld Persian Cuneiform: Writing as Cosmological Ritual and Text.$g8.$tWriting - and Some Thoughts on Hebrew and Greek --$gPt. 3.$tWriting and Civil Religion in Greece /$rJean-Pierre Vernant.$g9.$tMyths and Reasonings.$g10.$tThe Polis: Shared Power.
520 1 $a"In this introduction to the ancient world, three leading French historians explore the emergence of rationality and writing: how it developed and how it is remarkably similar to our own tradition. We learn that the supposed twin pillars of Western civilization, Greece and the Bible, were hardly freestanding: they elaborated logical and religious structures that had developed much earlier in Mesopotamia.
520 8 $aAt the same time Ancestor of the West reminds us that these cultures were precursors of our own precisely because they possessed an intelligence that we still recognize. The ancients, even in their earliest writings, thought like us."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aWriting$zMiddle East$xHistory.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xReligion.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115890
700 1 $aHerrenschmidt, Clarisse.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94014036
700 1 $aVernant, Jean-Pierre,$d1914-2007.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50013924
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