Mysteries of the Alphabet,9780789205230

Mysteries of the Alphabet

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ISBN13: 9780789205230
ISBN10: 0789205238
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-03-01
Publisher(s): Abbeville Pr
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Summary

tells how Protosinaic pictograms -- derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the twentieth century -- changed through the millennia and left their traces on our alphabet.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 11(4)
PART ONE ORIGIN & DEVELOPMENT 15(98)
Chapter I: A Short History of Writing
17(60)
Chapter II: Pictogram, Ideogram, and Phonogram
77(10)
Chapter III: The Lady of the Turquoise: Proto-Sinaitic Script
87(12)
Chapter IV: The Example of the Letter Aleph
99(6)
Chapter V: When Aleph Became Alpha
105(8)
PART TWO THE ALPHABET 113(236)
PART THREE THE ARCHEOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION 349(22)
BIBLIOGRAPHY & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 371

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