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WRITING, REASONING, AND RELIGION IN
MESOPOTAMIA, ELAM, AND GREECE
Jean Bottero, Clarisse Herrenschmidt,
and Jean-Pierre Vernant
With a Foreword by Franc;ois Zabbal
Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan
T H E U N I VERS I T Y OF C H I C AGO PRES S
C H I C AGO A N D LO N D O N
JEAN
B
O
ITE
R
O
is emeritus director of L' Ecole pratique des hautes etudes,
Paris. He is the author of
Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods
(University of Chicago Press, 1 992) .
CLARISSE HERRENSCHMIDT
is a researcher at CNRS.
JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT
is former chair of studies in comparative religions at
the College de France. He is editor of
The Greeks
(University of Chicago
Press, 1 995).
Originally published as
L'Orient ancien et nous: L'ecriture, fa raison, fes dieux
©
1 996 E ditions Albin Michel S.A.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 6063 7
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
©
2000 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 2000
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN: 0-226-0671 5-7 (cloth)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bottero, Jean.
[Orient ancien et nous. English]
Ancestor of the West: writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia,
Elam, and Greece
/
Jean Bottero, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean-Pierre Ver­
nant ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
p. cm.
Translation of: L'Orient ancien et nous.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-226-06715-7 (cloth: alk. paper).
1. Middle East-Civilization-To 622. 2. Writing-Middle East-His­
tory. 3. Middle East-Religion.
1.
Herrenschmidt, Clarisse. II. Vernant,
Jean-Pierre. III. Title.
DSs7.B68 1 3 2000
99-23 1 1 3
939.'4-dc21
@
The paper used i n this publication meets the minimum requirements
of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Perma­
nence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48- 1 992.
Contents
Foreword by Fran�½ois Zabbal
Translator's Note
xiii
Jean Bottero
1
3
4
vii
PART ONE: Religion and Reasoning in Mesopotamia
The Birth of Civilization
3
2
The First Writing
19
The Intelligence o f the World
34
The Gods: A Reasonable Religion
51
Worlds in Iran, Israel, and Greece
PART TWO: Writing between Visible and Invisible
Clarisse Herrenschmidt
8
Elamite Civilization and Writing
69
6
Consonant Alphabets, the Greek Alphabet,
and Old Persian Cuneiform
90
7
Old Persian Cuneiform: Writing as
Cosmological Ritual and Text
108
Writing-and Some Thoughts on Hebrew and Greek
5
PART THREE: Writing and Civil Religion in Greece
1 26
Jean-Pierre Vernant
9
10
Myths and Reasonings
The Polis: Shared Power
1 77
Notes
1 79
Bibliography
Index
1 83
149
1 64
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