Visualizing knowledge and creating meaning in ancient writing systems
By: edited by Shai Gordin
Series: Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient -- Band 23; Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient -- Bd. 23.
Publisher: PeWe-Verlag
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Gladbeck
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9783935012119
Subjects: Bedeutung; Writing; Languages; Egyptian language; Akkadian language; Congresses; Schriftsystem; Visualisierung; Wissen; Language and languages; History
Notes: International conference proceedings, 2010, Berlin.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributions chiefly in English, with one in German.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Shai Gordin -- Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Aegean; title: Origins of scholastic commentary in Mesopotamia: Second-order schemata in the Early Dynastic exegetical imagination  -- J. Cale Johnson; title: Socio-historical Setting of Hittite Schools of Writing as reflected in Scribal Habits  -- Shai Gordon; title: Anatolian Hieroglyphs: Logogram vs. Ideogram  -- Mark Weeden; title: Orality of Linear A, Scriptuality of Linear B  -- Helena Tomas -- Egypt; title: Extinction of Gods: Impact of Climatic Change on Religious Concepts  -- Jiri Janak; title: Ars Memoriae Aegyptiaca? Some Preliminary Remarks on the Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the Classical Art of Memory  -- Renata Landgrafova -- Middle America and East Asia; title: Phenomenological Interpretation of the "Six Ways" of Chinese Script Formation  -- Tze-Wan Kwan; title: Problem des Wortbegriffs im Deutschen und im Japanischen -- Zum Verhaltnis von Schriftsystem und sprachlichem Wissen  -- Elisabeth Birk; title: On (Some of) the Principles and Structures of Graphic Sign Substitution in Classic Maya Writing -- Erik Boot