Re: Golden Canon
[ Home ][ Thread ][ Subject ][ Author ][ Date ]Kevin Kelly
Sat, 21 Feb 98 11:43:49 -0800
>Only a minority of the documents preserved for
>a long time have arrived to us by accident. Even the Sumeriam archives would
>not have arrived to us had not been carefully mantained in the archival
>palace in their proper arrangement for a very long time. It is important to
>remember that physical preservation does not preserve meaning if the
>document is out of context and its relationships with the other documents
>cannot be ascertained. We have plenty of evidence of the fact that documents
>on long lasting materials which have not been the continuing responsibility
>of some sovereign body have not been preserved, while frail papyrus can
>still be read in the Vatican archives.
I'd like to hear more about this. Is there a paper, or monograph, that
puts the evidence for this into one tidy place?
--kk
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