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  • WRITING — (Scripts, Materials, and Inscriptions). SCRIPTS AND MATERIALS General Survey From the end of the third millennium B.C.E., the art of writing was practiced in the ancient Near East (see alphabet ). Here, the pictographic, cuneiform, and… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • LETTERS AND LETTER WRITERS — The letter holds an honored place in Jewish history and literature and includes diplomatic correspondence, state papers, and letters as vehicles of religious or secular literature and as a means of polemics in communal and spiritual matters,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • writing — /ruy ting/, n. 1. the act of a person or thing that writes. 2. written form: to commit one s thoughts to writing. 3. that which is written; characters or matter written with a pen or the like: His writing is illegible. 4. such characters or… …   Universalium

  • Writing — is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and the recording of language via a non… …   Wikipedia

  • Writing system — Predominant scripts at the national level, with selected regional and minority scripts. Alphabet Latin Cyrillic Latin Greek …   Wikipedia

  • writing —    The exact origins of writing are lost, probably forever, in the mists of time. Modern scholars still disagree where and when the first substantial examples of writing appeared, some favoring ancient Egypt, others ancient Mesopotamia. Those in… …   Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary

  • hieroglyphic writing — Introduction       a system that employs characters in the form of pictures. These individual signs, called hieroglyphs (hieroglyph), may be read either as pictures, as symbols for pictures, or as symbols for sounds.       The name hieroglyphic… …   Universalium

  • Casket letters — is the name generally given to a group of eight letters and a sequence of irregular sonnets said to have been addressed by Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Earl of Bothwell, between January and April 1566 or 1567. If authentic throughout, they… …   Wikipedia

  • Ojibwe writing systems — A sign in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, with Ojibwe syllabics. The unpointed syllabics text says ᑳᐃᔑᐊᓉᐱᓈᓂᐗᐣᐠ (Gaa izhi anwebinaaniwang the place where people repose )…but with the last ᐧ / w missing from the sign. Ojibwe is an Native American language… …   Wikipedia

  • Drapier's Letters — Title page of the 1735 Works. The author is in the Dean s chair receiving the …   Wikipedia

  • Klingon writing systems — In the Star Trek movies and television shows, the Klingons use their own alien writing system to write the Klingon language. In Mark Okrand s The Klingon Dictionary this alphabet is named as pIqaD , but no information is given about it. When… …   Wikipedia

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