My friend Wonka gave me Thomas Cahill's The Gifts of the Jews for Christmukkah/Festivus this year. I've read Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization and loved it. Here's something I've alread learned from The Gifts of the Jews. The ancient Sumerians were the first civilization to discover writing. However, the individual authors didn't take credit for their work. Rather, every book was authored by one of their gods - whichever was appropriate for the theme of the book. So a book on how to grow crops was "written" by Enlil, the Granter of Agriculture and the inventor of the hoe.
More to come from this book.
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