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Syria’s role as a meeting place of civilizations, a place fertile in new, influential ideas, started with the creative venture of two West-Semitic nations, Phoenicians and Hebrews. Whilst the former invented the phonetic script which became a model for most forms of writing in the old world, the latter created the Holy Writ which provided the foundation stone for the two main monotheistic world religions, Christianity and Islam.
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© 1993 Jaroslav Krejčí
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Krejčí, J. (1993). Theocentrism meets Anthropocentrism. In: The Human Predicament: Its Changing Image. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22523-1_5
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