Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780199557301 |
| ISBN10: | 0199557306 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 840 pages |
| Size: | 249x168x54 mm |
| Weight: | 1814 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 111 in-text illustrations |
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The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture
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Oxford Handbooks;
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 22 September 2011
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Short description:
An authoritative guide to the Ancient Middle East as seen through the lens of cuneiform writing, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia. Written by a team of international scholars, with chapter bibliographies and numerous illustrations, the Handbook is a state-of-the-art guide to the discipline as well as offering pathways for future research.
Long description:
The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture examines the Ancient Middle East through the lens of cuneiform writing. The contributors, a mix of scholars from across the disciplines, explore, define, and to some extent look beyond the boundaries of the written word, using Mesopotamia's clay tablets and stone inscriptions not just as 'texts' but also as material artefacts that offer much additional information about their creators, readers, users and owners.
Thanks are due to the K. Radner and E. Robson for the care with which they edited this voluminous book.
Thanks are due to the K. Radner and E. Robson for the care with which they edited this voluminous book.
Table of Contents:
I. Materiality and literacies
Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans
Accounting in proto-cuneiform
Numeracy and metrology
Levels of literacy
Literacy and gender
II. Individuals and communities
The person in Mesopotamian thought
The scribe of the Flood Story and his circle
Feasts for the living, the dead, and the gods
Cuneiform writing in Neo-Babylonian temple communities
Freedom in ancient Near Eastern societies
III. Experts and novices
Teacher-student relationships: two case studies
Patron and client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum the diviner
Learned, rich, famous and unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar
Music, the work of professionals
The education of Neo-Assyrian princes
IV. Decisions
Judicial decision-making: judges and arbitrators
Royal decision-making: kings, magnates and scholars
Assyria at war: strategy and conduct
Manipulating the gods: lamenting in context
Magic rituals: conceptualisation and performance
V. Interpretations
Sheep and sky: systems of divinatory interpretation
Making sense of time: observational and theoretical calendars
Letters as correspondence, letters as literature
Keeping company with men of learning: the king as scholar
From street altar to palace: reading the built environment of urban Babylonia
VI. Making knowledge
The production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge
Tablets of schools and scholars: a portrait of the Old Babylonian corpus
Adapting to new contexts: cuneiform in Anatolia
Observing and describing the world through divination and astronomy
Berossos between tradition and innovation
VII. Shaping tradition
Agriculture as civilization: sages, farmers, and barbarians
Sourcing, organising, and administering medicinal ingredients
Changing images of kingship in Sumerian literature
The pious king: royal patronage of temples
Cuneiform culture's last guardians: the old urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk
Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans
Accounting in proto-cuneiform
Numeracy and metrology
Levels of literacy
Literacy and gender
II. Individuals and communities
The person in Mesopotamian thought
The scribe of the Flood Story and his circle
Feasts for the living, the dead, and the gods
Cuneiform writing in Neo-Babylonian temple communities
Freedom in ancient Near Eastern societies
III. Experts and novices
Teacher-student relationships: two case studies
Patron and client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum the diviner
Learned, rich, famous and unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar
Music, the work of professionals
The education of Neo-Assyrian princes
IV. Decisions
Judicial decision-making: judges and arbitrators
Royal decision-making: kings, magnates and scholars
Assyria at war: strategy and conduct
Manipulating the gods: lamenting in context
Magic rituals: conceptualisation and performance
V. Interpretations
Sheep and sky: systems of divinatory interpretation
Making sense of time: observational and theoretical calendars
Letters as correspondence, letters as literature
Keeping company with men of learning: the king as scholar
From street altar to palace: reading the built environment of urban Babylonia
VI. Making knowledge
The production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge
Tablets of schools and scholars: a portrait of the Old Babylonian corpus
Adapting to new contexts: cuneiform in Anatolia
Observing and describing the world through divination and astronomy
Berossos between tradition and innovation
VII. Shaping tradition
Agriculture as civilization: sages, farmers, and barbarians
Sourcing, organising, and administering medicinal ingredients
Changing images of kingship in Sumerian literature
The pious king: royal patronage of temples
Cuneiform culture's last guardians: the old urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk
