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Heilige Schriften als materielle Objekte stehen im Fokus dieses Buches. In welchem Zusammenhang stehen Gestaltungsweisen dieser Objekte und ihre Verwendung? Unterscheiden sich Heilige Schriften darin von anderen Objekten und ist es immer nur der Inhalt, der Heilige Schriften zu etwas Heiligem macht? In interdisziplinarer Kontrastierung werden neue Impulse fur das Verstandnis des Phanomens 'Heilige Schriften' eroffnet.

The Idea of Writing is an exploration of the versatility of writing systems. This volume, the second in a series, is specifically concerned with the problems and possibilities of adapting a writing system to another language. Writing is studied as it is used across linguistic and cultural borders from ancient Egyptian, Cuneiform and Korean writing to Japanese, Kharosthi and Near Eastern scripts. This collection of articles aims to highlight the complexity of writing systems rather than to provide a first introduction. The different academic traditions in which these writing systems...