在这部关于巴勒斯坦人的权威文化史中，努尔·马萨尔哈阐述了巴勒斯坦学习的整个历史，具体涉及该国的写作、教育、文学创作和知识革命。这本书介绍了这一悠久的文化遗产，以证明巴勒斯坦不仅是四大一神教——伊斯兰教、基督教、犹太教和撒马利亚主义——的“圣地”，相反，该国已发展成为包括苏美尔语、原迦南语、希腊语、叙利亚语、阿拉伯语、，希伯来语和拉丁语。这个国家的文化饱和不仅存在于标志性的清真寺、教堂和犹太教堂，也存在于学术界、历史悠久的学校、学院、著名的国际图书馆和档案中心。
这本独特的书首次将这些著名的机构、运动和多个历史时期结合在一起，将它们呈现为累积和增量智力进步的一部分，而不是脱节的卓越教育时期。通过这样做，这部多方面的思想史改变了巴勒斯坦学术研究的方向，并将巴勒斯坦目前关于教育和识字的历史知识推向了新的高度。
Palestine Across Millennia: A History of Literacy, Learning and Educational Revolutions
In this magisterial cultural history of the Palestinians, Nur Masalha illuminates the entire history of Palestinian learning with specific reference to writing, education, literary production and the intellectual revolutions in the country. The book introduces this long cultural heritage to demonstrate that Palestine was not just a ‘holy land’ for the four monotheistic religions – Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Samaritanism – rather, the country evolved to become a major international site of classical education and knowledge production in multiple languages including Sumerian, Proto-Canaanite, Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin. The cultural saturation of the country is found then, not solely in landmark mosques, churches and synagogues, but in scholarship, historic schools, colleges, famous international libraries and archival centres.
This unique book unites these renowned institutions, movements and multiple historical periods for the first time, presenting them as part of a cumulative and incremental intellectual advancement rather than disconnected periods of educational excellence. In doing so, this multifaceted intellectual history transforms the orientations of scholarly research on Palestine and propels current historical knowledge on education and literacy in Palestine to new heights.
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