Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning and the Gods (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Mesopotamia The Mesopotamians invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. To understand how Mesopotamian civilization has been mediated and interpreted in its transmission through time, Bottero begins with an account of Assyriology, the discipline devoted to the ancient culture.
Full description- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Published: 13 July 1995
- Format: Paperback 312 pages
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- Categories: Cultural Studies | Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Archaeology By Period / Region
- ISBN 13: 9780226067278 ISBN 10: 0226067270
- Sales rank: 641,783
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Full description for Mesopotamia
The Mesopotamians invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean Bottero attempts to go back to the moment which marks the very beginning of history. To give the reader some sense of how Mesopotamian civilization has been mediated and interpreted in its transmission through time, Bottero begins with an account of assyriology, the discipline devoted to the ancient culture. Bottero focuses on divination in the ancient world, contending that certain modes of worship in Mesopotamia, in their application of casuality and proof, prefigure the "scientific mind."
