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Cadmean letters : the transmission of the alphabet to the Aegean and further West before 1400 B. C.
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ISBN: 0931464471 9780931464478 Year: 1990 Publisher: Winona Lake Eisenbrauns

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Western civilization has long sought its cultural roots in the classical civilizations of the Aegean. During the twentieth century, however, it has been made increasingly clear that it owes a great debt to the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent. In the thick of the debate as to how much classical civilizations were influenced by the Levant has been the question of the date of the transmission of the alphabet. In this monograph, Bernal takes up the question anew and marshals persuasive arguments that the date of transmission of the alphabet should be moved considerably earlier than generally has been thought, to the middle of the second millennium B.C. Growing out of his work on Black Athena, the intricate matters of alphabetic history and transmission are dealt with, both in terms of the history of the investigation of the topic and also with regard to the specific working out of his own new proposal.

The fabrication of ancient Greece 1785-1985. 1
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ISBN: 0099887800 Year: 1987 Publisher: London : Vintage,

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Black Athena : the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization. 2 : The archaeological and documentary evidence
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ISBN: 081351584X 081351276X 0813512778 0813515831 9780813515847 9780813512778 Year: 1996 Publisher: New Brunswick Rutgers university press


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Black Athena : the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization
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Year: 1991 Publisher: London : Vintage,

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Geography of a life
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ISBN: 9781465363756 9781465363749 9781465363763 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. Xlibris Corporation

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Bernal, Martin


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Black Athena
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ISBN: 1978807139 Year: 2020 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Classics

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Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century--chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers--Aryans--from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this "Aryan model." They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal links a wide range of areas and disciplines--drama, poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of "modern scholarship."

Black Athena : the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization. 3 : The linguistic evidence.
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ISBN: 9780813536552 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Brunswick Rutgers university press

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Black Athena : the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization. 1 : The fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985
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ISBN: 0946960550 0946960569 Year: 1987 Publisher: London Free Association Books

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Black Athena
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ISBN: 9781978807150 1978807155 9781978807136 1978807139 9781978804265 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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