Origins of the alphabet : proceedings of the First Polis Institute Interdisciplinary Conference / edited by Christophe Rico and Claudia Attucci.

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Parole et écriture / Marcel Sigrist -- The interface of oral and written traditions in ancient Israel: the case of the Abecedaries / Aaron Demsky -- The Assyrian model: les syllabaires d'Ebla (2350 av. J-C) et les abjads du IIe millénaire av. J.-C. / Maria Vittoria Toniette -- Aux sources de l'alphabet: de quelques anciens témoignages en écriture alphabétique / Emile Puech -- The invention of the alphabet: on "lost papyri" and the Egyptian "Alphabet" / Orly Goldwasser -- Ecriture hiéroglyphiquie égyptienne et écriture protosinaïtique: une typologie comparée / Pascal Vernus -- What have we learned about the transition phases to they syllabic and alphabetic systems? / Clotilde Pontecorvo and Franca Rossi -- Les étapes du développement de l'écriture chez l'enfant et l'histoire de l'alphabet / Christophe Rico.

Summary: Despite the fact that writing has arisen independently many times in various different regions of the world, including Egypt, Sumer, China, and Mexico, the concept of the alphabet was invented only once, somewhere between Egypt and Phoenicia, with all known alphabets going back to this single source. While it is possible, up to a certain point, for scholars to provide an answer as to how the alphabet came about, it is much more difficult to understand the cause of its origin: why did it come about? In February 2013 Polis - the Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities invited some of the.

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International conference proceedings.

Contains essays in English and essays in French.

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Despite the fact that writing has arisen independently many times in various different regions of the world, including Egypt, Sumer, China, and Mexico, the concept of the alphabet was invented only once, somewhere between Egypt and Phoenicia, with all known alphabets going back to this single source. While it is possible, up to a certain point, for scholars to provide an answer as to how the alphabet came about, it is much more difficult to understand the cause of its origin: why did it come about? In February 2013 Polis - the Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities invited some of the.

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