Re-writing the Script: Decoding the Textual Experience in the Bronze Age Levant

What is it about?

This paper explores the diverse scripts used in the Bronze Age Levant, by focusing on the materiality of writing and writing practice, and its contexts of use. Who used different types of writing, and why? And how did these different users and systems interact?

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Why is it important?

This paper will be of interest to anyone exploring the social and cultural contexts in which writing systems were adopted and adapted. While it should prove a key text for those teaching or studying the development of the alphabet, writing and literacy, it should also find a second audience in those interested in Egyptian-Canaanite interactions and the impact of empire on indigenous populations.