Chapter 2 talks about different alphabets, their markings, how many characters, what script it derived from, what tools and materials were used, how it was written and read (ex. left to right), what alphabets were influenced by another, and lots more. Some scripts were too curvy to chisel into stone and had to be drawn in clay or on paper. Some were read from left to right, some read left to right then right to left, and others read vertically from top to bottom. Chapter 2 tells us that as more and more people began learning how to read and write people such as scribes and priests lost their political power. Reading and writing had become more important because of the vast amount of information and knowledge exceeded the ability to continue to be past down through generations by word of mouth.
I was surprised to learn how parchment codex had more advantages over papyrus scrolls and yet the pagans continued to use papyrus. Codex was more durable and both sides could be written as opposed papyrus which was too fragile to be folded into pages and you could not write on the back because of the vertical strip.
What are logograms?
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