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I guess I ASSUMED you meant printed…. To me the word “book” refers to a printed and bound volume…. Are we talking about a hand-written bound document (book) or loose scrolls as in the Dead Sea scrolls or are you referring to the content, as in it tells a story or documents an event?…..
According to my SOURCE, and without giving away more than I have to; “It is written on (excuse me, NOT parchment) and is a compilation of moral, political, and religious aphorisms. It strongly insists on reverence to women, politeness, and monotheism.”
This is my only description. We may have trouble here with what constitutes a “book”. Seems to me the first novel was “Grendel”????….Which had something to do with the length??
J.J., you on the road? We need some help here. Any Lit. majors out there?
Huskysooner is toying with us. He KNOWS that the book is written in the lost language of the Etruscans. I am disqualified.
It was such an interesting question, I went and done some (gasp) RESEARCH !
I was just guessing old civilations/languages, but my comment in #6 was a response to anon’s hint, which made it sound somewhat like the answer was the Torah.
Don’t worry, I still have no clue as to the answer.
Okay, you two, one of you – out with it….. Anon, you mentioned it had “reverence to women”….. Were there any drawings in the book?….. Was it the oldest Playboy known to man?….. (“I Don’t Know – Third base!” [A&C]….)
That’s a BIG minus 17 point, buddy. This is serious educational stuff here. No drawings (I guess. I haven’t seen the book myself), no playboys, no bunnies. Get with the program or miss out on valuable prizes.
I’m sorry, but, it was there and I just had to go with it…. Anyway, I’m going for the biggest non-prize you offer and the MRambler community record books….. I figure if you can’t get the record for most points, go the other way, besides, I’ve been using my brain as my only reference source, so in that respect alone, I should get a handicap of some kind…
According to the BBC News, the oldest known multiple-page book resides in the National History Museum in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The manuscript consists of six pages of 24 carat gold, is written in the Etruscan language and contains illustrations of
a horse and rider, a mermaid, a harp and soldiers. It is believed to have been written around 600 B.C., so, of course, if
the Egyptians were binding pages together to make books over two-and-one-half millenia earlier, then the BBC News is WRONG.
June 13th, 2006 at 7:35 am
The most obvious answer is Gutenberg’s Bible…..
June 13th, 2006 at 11:35 am
Nope. Not even any negative points for that answer. Way before print. Written on parchment.
June 13th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
I guess I ASSUMED you meant printed…. To me the word “book” refers to a printed and bound volume…. Are we talking about a hand-written bound document (book) or loose scrolls as in the Dead Sea scrolls or are you referring to the content, as in it tells a story or documents an event?…..
June 13th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Hmmmmm. Egyptian? Chinese? Etruscan? I’m curious to see what the answer is.
June 13th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
According to my SOURCE, and without giving away more than I have to; “It is written on (excuse me, NOT parchment) and is a compilation of moral, political, and religious aphorisms. It strongly insists on reverence to women, politeness, and monotheism.”
This is my only description. We may have trouble here with what constitutes a “book”. Seems to me the first novel was “Grendel”????….Which had something to do with the length??
J.J., you on the road? We need some help here. Any Lit. majors out there?
June 13th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
Ah, Shalom aleichem!
June 14th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Is that your final answer?
June 15th, 2006 at 1:19 am
Huskysooner is toying with us. He KNOWS that the book is written in the lost language of the Etruscans. I am disqualified.
It was such an interesting question, I went and done some (gasp) RESEARCH !
June 15th, 2006 at 8:28 am
I was just guessing old civilations/languages, but my comment in #6 was a response to anon’s hint, which made it sound somewhat like the answer was the Torah.
Don’t worry, I still have no clue as to the answer.
June 15th, 2006 at 11:37 am
Research is cool…..no google though, which I don’t consider research.
Older than Etruscans, older than the Torah.
I screwed up. Memory not what it used to be. Not “Grendel”. Grendel was the main character in “Beowulf”.
Randalf, it will be interesting to see if we both got the same “Oldest Book”.
June 15th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
Okay, you two, one of you – out with it….. Anon, you mentioned it had “reverence to women”….. Were there any drawings in the book?….. Was it the oldest Playboy known to man?….. (“I Don’t Know – Third base!” [A&C]….)
June 15th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
That’s a BIG minus 17 point, buddy. This is serious educational stuff here. No drawings (I guess. I haven’t seen the book myself), no playboys, no bunnies. Get with the program or miss out on valuable prizes.
June 16th, 2006 at 7:50 am
I’m sorry, but, it was there and I just had to go with it…. Anyway, I’m going for the biggest non-prize you offer and the MRambler community record books….. I figure if you can’t get the record for most points, go the other way, besides, I’ve been using my brain as my only reference source, so in that respect alone, I should get a handicap of some kind…
June 16th, 2006 at 10:47 am
You’re right, You are a handicap. Would you like me to take way all your negative points so you can start over? Or go for the QUIZ CHALLENGED PRIZE?
June 18th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
THE ANSWER: An Egyptian manuscript by Ptah-Hotep, compiled during the reign of Assa about B.C. 3366.
Randalf, what did you come up with???
June 18th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
According to the BBC News, the oldest known multiple-page book resides in the National History Museum in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The manuscript consists of six pages of 24 carat gold, is written in the Etruscan language and contains illustrations of
a horse and rider, a mermaid, a harp and soldiers. It is believed to have been written around 600 B.C., so, of course, if
the Egyptians were binding pages together to make books over two-and-one-half millenia earlier, then the BBC News is WRONG.
June 18th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
The Egyptian is a manuscript written on papyrus in hieratic…not bound I would imagine. Is a manuscript a book? Nobody got it anyway. No points.