Texts and contexts : the circulation and transmission of cuneiform texts in social space / edited by Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delnero, Paul, editor.

Lauinger, Jacob, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; vol. 9.

Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; vol. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Assyro-Babylonian literature.

Sumerian literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Sumerian literature.

Akkadian language--Texts--Congresses.

Akkadian language.

Akkadian language--Texts.

Sumerian language--Texts--Congresses.

Sumerian language.

Sumerian language--Texts.

Transmission of texts--Iraq--History--Congresses.

Transmission of texts.

Civilization.

History.

Iraq--Civilization--To 634--Congresses.

Iraq.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume assembles scholars working on cuneiform texts from different periods, genres, and areas to examine the range of social, cultural, and historical contexts in which specific types of texts circulated. Using different methodologies and sources of evidence, these articles reconstruct the contexts in which various cuneiform texts circulated, providing a critical framework to determine how they functioned. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the publication of monographs pertaining to all aspects of the history, culture, literature, religion, art, and archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from the earliest historical periods to Late Antiquity. The aim of this series is to present in-depth studies of the written and material records left by the civilizations and cultures that populated the various areas of the Ancient Near East: Anatolia, Arabia, Egypt, Iran, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Syria. Thus, SANER is open to all sorts of works that have something new to contribute and which are relevant to scholars and students within the continuum of regions, disciplines, and periods that constitute the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, as well as to those in neighboring disciplines, including Biblical Studies, Classics, and Ancient History in general. Book jacket.

Contents:

Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger: Introduction: reassembling the social from texts and contexts

Textual circulation and performance. Daniel E. Fleming: Emar's entu installation: revising ritual and text together

Gojko Barjamovic: Contextualizing tradition: magic, literacy and domestic life in Old Assyrian Kanesh

Paul Delnero: Texts and performance. The materiality and function of the Sumerian liturgical corpus: textual circulation and administrative praxis

Christopher Woods: Evidence for economic forecasting in the earliest texts from Mesopotamia

Steven J. Garfinkle: Ur III administrative texts: building blocks of state community

Michael Kozuh: Policing, planning, and provisos: The function of legal texts in the management of the Eanna Temple's livestock in the first millennium BC. Contents: textual circulation and the mechanics of production

Sara J. Milstein: The "magic" of Adapa 191

Matthew Y. Rutz: The text after the sacrifice: divination reports from Kassite Babylonia

Christian W. Hess: Songs of clay: materiality and poetics in Early Akkadian epic 251

Jacob Lauinger: Neo-Assyrian scribes, Esarhaddon's succession treaty, and the dynamics of textual mass production.

Notes:

"The papers in this volume were first presented in their initial form at a one-day symposium organized by the editors at Johns Hopkins University on November 19, 2013"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781614515371

1614515379

Publisher Number:

99965452682

Access Restriction:

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