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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
Alphabet --- Letters of the alphabet --- Latin alphabet --- Roman alphabet --- Hieroglyphics --- Transliteration --- History
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The conference Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets took place inMarch 2017 at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. This was the first of a programmeof collaborative events organised as part of the project Contexts of and Relations betweenEarly Writing Systems (CREWS), which pursues interdisciplinary research into the developmentand context of writing around the Mediterranean and Levant in the second andfirst millennia BC. CREWS has received funding from the European Research Council(ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme(grant agreement No 677758).
Alphabet --- Writing --- Letters of the alphabet --- Latin alphabet --- Roman alphabet --- Hieroglyphics --- Transliteration --- History --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Language and languages --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- early writing systems; early alphabets; alphabets; scripts
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Le Kitāb dā’irat al-aḥruf al-abjadiyya est un traité de magie pratique attribué à Hermès. Ce texte composite, qui ne peut être daté avec précision, est un ouvrage de magie basée sur la doctrine de la science des lettres ( ‘ilm al-ḥurūf ). Le présent livre offre la première édition critique du texte, accompagnée d’une traduction annotée et d’une étude historique et philologique exposant les principes théoriques à la base des procédés décrits dans les recettes ainsi que des entités, objets et ingrédients utilisés (noms des anges invoqués, types de fumigations et d’encres, dessins et figures, et cetera). Il s’agit d’une des premières éditions critiques d’un traité de magie pratique des lettres, genre encore fort méconnu bien qu’abondamment représenté dans les manuscrits arabes. The Kitāb dā’irat al-aḥruf al-abjadiyya is a composite treatise of letter magic attributed to Hermes. The edition and annotated translation of the Arabic text are accompanied by an explanation of the theoretical principles underlying the procedures described in the recipes, and a discussion of the entities, objects and ingredients used. These include names of the angels to be summoned, types of incenses and inks to be used, sketches and images to be drawn, et cetera This is one of the first critical editions and translations of a full-length text of practical magic containing recipes pertaining to ‘ilm al-ḥurūf (the science of letters). The book is addressed to Arabists and to any non-Arabist interested in the tradition of magic.
Alphabet --- Symbolism of numbers --- Hermetism. --- Gematria. --- Islamic magic. --- Religious aspects. --- Hermetism --- Gematria --- Islamic magic --- Religious aspects --- Alphabet. --- Buchstabenmystik. --- Gematrie. --- Islam. --- Magie. --- Symbolism of numbers. --- Alphabet - Early works to 1800 --- Symbolism of numbers - Eary works to 1800 --- Alphabet - Religious aspects --- Alphabet (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Magic, Islamic --- Muslim magic --- Magic --- Hermeneutics --- Hermeticism --- Occultism --- Letters of the alphabet --- Latin alphabet --- Roman alphabet --- Hieroglyphics --- Transliteration --- Number symbolism --- Sacred numbers --- Symbolic numbers --- Numerals
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This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent. Some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that only syllabic knowledge is 'real' or accessible, whence the ubiquity of syllabaries. Miller disputes this by showing that such tests do not distinguish relevant types of knowledge, and that linguistic analysis of the ordering and writing conventions of early Western scripts corroborates the evidence from language acq
Alphabet. --- Cypriot syllabary. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Inscriptions, Linear B. --- Language awareness. --- Phonology. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology. --- Alphabet --- Cypriot syllabary --- Inscriptions, Linear B --- Language awareness --- Cypriote (Dialecte ancien) --- Phonologie --- Inscriptions linéaires B --- Conscience linguistique --- Phonology --- Syllabaires --- Linguistic awareness --- Metalinguistic knowledge --- Awareness --- Psycholinguistics --- Linear B inscriptions --- Minoan writing --- Greek language --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Inscriptions, Hieroglyphic --- Cypriote syllabary --- Letters of the alphabet --- Latin alphabet --- Roman alphabet --- Hieroglyphics --- Transliteration --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology
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Die editio princeps des bislang lediglich in unvollständiger koptischer Übertragung zugänglichen Traktats Vom Mysterium der Buchstaben (Mitte 6. Jh.) erschließt ein einzigartiges Dokument frühbyzantinischen monastischen Schrifttums. Aufbauend auf und gleichzeitig in Abgrenzung von jüdischen Traditionen zur geheimen Bedeutung der hebräischen Buchstaben, entwickelt der Autor des Werkes - angeblich Sabas von Jerusalem, vermutlich jedoch eher ein kalligraphisch interessierter Anhänger dieses Heiligen - eine christliche Interpretation des griechischen Alphabets, vom Alpha bis zum Omega. Um das Werk kulturgeschichtlich zu verorten, werden in der Einführung neben einer inhaltlichen Analyse des Textes verschiedene Spielarten der symbolischen Ausdeutung von Buchstaben in jüdischem und christlichem Kontext dargestellt. Dem kritischen Text ist eine deutsche Übersetzung beigegeben, inhaltliche und philologische Anmerkungen zu einzelnen Textstellen vertiefen das Verständnis des Werkes.
Symbolism --- Alphabet --- Greek language --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Koptische handschriften --- Arabische handschriften. --- 273.1 --- 273.1 Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Representation, Symbolic --- Symbolic representation --- Mythology --- Emblems --- Signs and symbols --- Classical languages --- Indo-European languages --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Letters of the alphabet --- Latin alphabet --- Roman alphabet --- Hieroglyphics --- Transliteration --- Arabische handschriften --- Symbolism - Early works to 1800 --- Alphabet - Religious aspects - Christianity - Early works to 1800 --- Greek language - Alphabet - Early works to 1800 --- Christianity (History). --- Cosmology. --- Letter Symbolism. --- Mysticism. --- Littérature chrétienne primitive --- Manuscrits grecs --- Manuscrits coptes --- Grec (langue) --- Symbolisme des lettres --- Symbolisme --- Gnosticisme --- Traductions allemandes --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Ouvrages avant 1800
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Covering Portugal and Castile in the West to the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the East, this collection focuses on Muslim minorities living in Christian lands during the high Middle Ages, and examines to what extent notions of religious tolerance influenced Muslim-Christian relations. The authors call into question the applicability of modern ideas of toleration to medieval social relations, investigating the situation instead from the standpoint of human experience within the two religious cultures. Whereas this study offers no evidence of an evolution of coherent policy concerning treatment of minorities in these Christian domains, it does reveal how religious ideas and communitarian traditions worked together to blunt the harsh realities of the relations between victors and vanquished.The chapters in this volume include "The Mudejars of Castile and Portugal in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries" by Joseph F. O'Callaghan, "Muslims in the Thirteenth-Century Realms of Aragon: Interactions and Reaction" by Robert I. Burns, S.J., "The End of Muslim Sicily" by David S. H. Abulafia, "The Subjected Muslims of the Frankish Levant" by Benjamin Z. Kedar, and "The Papacy and the Muslim Frontier" by James M. Powell.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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