Origin and Materiality of Writing in Israel and Ancient Egypt. Philology and Archaeology in Dialogue
The material context in which we see the emergence of Egyptian hieroglyphics and the proto-Sinaitic alphabet which is inspired by them, both in the land of Egypt, is related to the organic phonetic materiality that editors and receptors of the text have in common, as a possible access route for an i...
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Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/rihao/article/view/16265 |
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| Sumario: | The material context in which we see the emergence of Egyptian hieroglyphics and the proto-Sinaitic alphabet which is inspired by them, both in the land of Egypt, is related to the organic phonetic materiality that editors and receptors of the text have in common, as a possible access route for an identity construction. The permanent contact with divinizing elements in the mines of Sinai, place of origin for the proto-Sinaitic script, coincides with the environment linked to resurrection and life in the Afterworld of the material tomb where we find the emergence of hieroglyphs in the Nile valley. Although being a linear alphabetic language, we see that the delimited and autonomous corpus of Biblical Hebrew maintains the same versatility and creative power of hieroglyphs. These convergences are illustrated with three examples to conclude by suggesting the possibility of studying the origins and identity of Israel considering the emergence of writing. |
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