JWST 211 Lecture 4: sept 15- mesopotamia

• School: McGill University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JWST 211
• Professor: Barry Levy

Document Summary

Small piece of land if someone was important in one of these places, they were important in all. Iran and iraq today centered around tigris and euphrates. (cid:498)the great sea(cid:499) mediterranean sea biggest body of water, term used in biblical. Describes the two major areas of civilization in pre biblical times times. On the northern coast is a phoenician city. The language is virtually the same as biblical hebrew. Hebrew letters similar to greek letters greeks borrowed semitic alphabet, When they started writing from left to right instead of right to left they flipped a lot of the letters (cid:498)alpha(cid:499)- domesticated farm animal. They didn"t really invent it, the alphabet started in southern israel, texts discovered, hebrew provided basis for alphabet. The alphabet travelled from down near sinai. Latin alphabet came from greek alphabet, european alphabets came from latin etc. Phoenicians introduced maritime trading- sent ships all over mediterranean, and outside phoenician settlement all over spain, western africa.