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Texts and contexts : the circulation and transmission of cuneiform texts in social space / edited by Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lauinger, Jacob, author.
- Series:
- Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; Volume 9.
- Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records, 2161-4415 ; Volume 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.
- Sumerian language--Texts--Congresses.
- Sumerian language.
- Transmission of texts--Iraq--History--Congresses.
- Transmission of texts.
- Iraq--Civilization--To 634--Congresses.
- Iraq.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, [Massachusetts] ; Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Emar’s entu Installation
- 3. Contextualizing Tradition
- 4. Texts and Performance
- 5. Contingency Tables and Economic Forecasting in the Earliest Texts from Mesopotamia
- 6. Ur III Administrative Texts
- 7. Policing, Planning, and Provisos
- 8. The “Magic” of Adapa
- 9. The Text after the Sacrifice
- 10. Songs of Clay
- 11. 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."
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781614519638
- 1614519633
- 9781614515371
- 1614515379
- OCLC:
- 933333196
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