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Before and after Babel Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires
Author: Marc Van De Mieroop
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 361
Format: PDF
File size: 21,5 MB
Language: ENG

"The Lord confused the language of all the earth," so the Tower of Babel story in the Hebrew Bible's book of Genesis tells us to explain why the world's people communicate in countless languages while previously they all spoke only one. This book argues that the biblical confusion really happened in the ancient Near East, not in speech, however, but in writing.

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