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Tables of Contents for Ancestor of the West
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
vii
Francois Zabbal
Translator's Note
xiii
PART ONE: Religion and Reasoning in Mesopotamia
Jean Bottero
The Birth of Civilization
3
16
The First Writing
19
15
The Intelligence of the World
34
17
The Gods: A Reasonable Religion
51
18
PART TWO: Writing between Visible and Invisible Worlds in Iran, Israel, and Greece
Clarisse Herrenschmidt
Elamite Civilization and Writing
69
21
Consonant Alphabets, the Greek Alphabet, and Old Persian Cuneiform
90
18
Old Persian Cuneiform: Writing as Cosmological Ritual and Text
108
18
Writing---and Some Thoughts on Hebrew and Greek
126
23
PART THREE: Writing and Civil Religion in Greece
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Myths and Reasonings
149
15
The Polis: Shared Power
164
13
Notes
177
2
Bibliography
179
4
Index
183