Scribal practices and the social construction of knowledge : in antiquity, late antiquity and mediev...
Scribal practices and the social construction of knowledge : in antiquity, late antiquity and mediev...
Scribal practices and the social construction of knowledge : in antiquity, late antiquity and medieval Islam / edited by Myriam Wissa ; foreword by Sebastian Brock ; préface by Pascal Vernus.
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Leuven : Peeters, 2017.
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G 2018/4933
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English
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253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
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text
still image
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unmediated
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volume
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Foreword / Sebastian P. Brock -- Préface / Pascal Vernus -- Introduction / Myriam Wissa -- SECTION ONE. DECONSTRUCTING "SCRIBE", EXPLORING SCRIBAL LORE AND SCRIPT: THE SOCIO-POLITICAL BACKGROUND OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN, CUNEIFORM, SYRIAC, JUDEO-ARABIC AND ARABIC SCRIBAL PRACTICES. Writing practices...
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Summary
Scribal practices across disciplines are often explored through divisions between words, stiches and verses, sections, scribal hands and marks, correction and copying procedures. This volume offers a different perspective: writing as shown here is, at its heart, a deeply social practice connecting narrative to the different categories of knowledge...
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Scribal practices and the social construction of knowledge : in antiquity, late antiquity and medieval Islam / edited by Myriam Wissa ; foreword by Sebastian Brock ; préface by Pascal Vernus.
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Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta (OLA) ; 266
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Primarily in English. Preface in French.
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©2017
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G 2018/4933
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74VKVkeNdOll
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9789042933149 (hardback)
9042933143 (hardback)
DDC
930
MMS ID
991024185508402626
