Before and after Babel

List of Illustrations
Introduction

Part I: The Babylonian Cosmopolis
The cuneiform sign
Chapter 1: Reading Gilgamesh in the Zagros Mountains: the eighteenth century BC
Chapter 2: In the spell of Babylonian writing
Chapter 3: Mystery Guardians of an ancient tradition
Chapter 4: The height of cosmopolitanism: Reading Gilgamesh in Hattusas
Coda

Part II: The Vernacular Millennium
The Tower of Babel
Chapter 5: Scrupulous continuity
Chapter 6: Luwian: The Ephemeral Success of a Non-Cosmopolitan Tradition
Chapter 7: Vernaculars that changed the world: Phoenician and Aramaic
Chapter 8: From minority languages to world literatures: the Hebrew case
Chapter 9: From minority languages to world literatures: the Greek case
Chapter 10: The vernacular and its consequences
Epilogue: Clash of cosmopoleis?

Bibliography
Index

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• História do Oriente Médio
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