{"product_id":"9781646023615-dawn-of-philology","title":"The Dawn of Philology","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTextual Practices Between the Tigris and Nile\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Philology\u003c\/i\u003e offers an important and accessible history of the earliest practices of writing and textual transmission in Mesopotamia and Egypt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe emergence of complex writing systems in Mesopotamia and Egypt enabled the creation of vast textual traditions spanning administration, medicine, law, religion, literature, and political life. The preservation and transmission of these materials required highly trained specialists working within courts, temples, and other institutions. In the activities of these specialists—collecting, copying, interpreting, and curating texts—we can observe the earliest foundations of philology, the disciplined engagement with written knowledge that underlies many scholarly traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wide range of primary sources from around 3000 BCE to the first centuries CE, this book offers\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe first comparative history of philology in Egypt and Mesopotamia. It takes\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea holistic approach to their written legacies, examining methods, practices, scholarly roles, and institutional settings alongside the material forms of texts themselves. By analyzing written evidence together with objects and material culture, it reconstructs a dynamic repertoire of techniques for composing, studying, interpreting, and transmitting knowledge—procedures that became fundamental principles of philology thereafter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Philology\u003c\/i\u003e—originally published in German in 2018 and updated and presented here in English translation—is an important and accessible contribution to the literature on the origins of writing and scholarship. It will be essential for specialists in Assyriology and Egyptology, as well as for readers interested in the history of knowledge and scholarly disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58948438491510,"sku":"9781646023615","price":110.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_43699846.jpg?v=1791995448","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781646023615-dawn-of-philology","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}