Why «manuscripts don’t burn»?

Abstract

The author considers a widely known for ancient civilization belief in a transcendental nature of a book and logos. This point can be illustrated by the texts of the holy books, such as Bible and Koran, as well as archaeological, folklorist and ethnographic findings. An image of a book, as an emanation of invisible, of a noumenon leads to a conviction that the fullness of knowledge is inherent to the afterworld, first of all — to the hypogeum.