Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires by Marc Van de Mieroop

Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires

Marc Van de Mieroop

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Before "Babel" any intellectual who wrote did so as a participant in a cosmopolitan tradition with its roots in Babylonia, its language, and its cuneiform script. After "Babel" scribes from all over the eastern Mediterranean, including Greece, use...

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