Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present Drucker Johanna
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present Drucker Johanna The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies.Inventing the Alphabet provides the first…
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Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present Drucker Johanna
The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies.Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. The book moves through the centuries, finishing with contemporary concepts of the letters in alpha-numeric code used for global communication systems. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history.Beginning with Biblical tales and accounts from antiquity, Drucker traces the transmission of ancient Greek thinking about the alphabet's origin and debates about how Moses learned to read.
Along the way, we learn about magical and angelic alphabets, antique