The Oxford handbook of cuneiform culture /
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Nueva York, Estados Unidos :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Materiality and literacies : Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans / Jonathan Taylor
- Accounting in proto-cuneiform / Robert K. Englund
- Numeracy and metrology / Grégory Chambon
- Levels of literacy / Niek Veldhuis
- Literacy and gender / Brigitte Lion.
- Part II. Individuals and communities : The person in mesopotamian thought / Benjamikn R. Foster
- The scribe of the flood story and his circle / Frans van Koppen
- Feasts for the living, the dead, and the Gods / Hagan Brunke
- Cuneiform writing in neo-babylonian temple communities / Michael Jursa
- Freedom in ancient near eastern societies / Eva Von Dassow.
- Part III. Experts and novices : Teacher-student relationships: two case studies / Yoram Cohen and Sivan Kedar
- Patron and client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum the Diviner / Dominique Charpin
- Learden, rich, famous, and unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar / Michel Tanret
- Music, the work of professionals / Nele Ziegler
- The education of neo-assyrian Princes / Silvie Zamazalová.
- Part IV. Decisions : Judicial decision-making: judges and arbitrators / Sophie Démare-Lafont
- Royal decision-making: Kings, Magnates, and Scholars / Karen Radner
- Assyria at war: strategy and conduct / Andreas Fuchs
- Manipulating the Gods: lamenting in context / Anne Löhnert
- Magic rituals: conceptualization and performance / Daniel Schwemer.
- Part V. Interpretations : Sheep and sky: systems of divinatory interpretation / Ulla Susanne Koch
- Making sense of time: observational and theoretical calendars / John M. Steele
- Letters as correspondence, letters as literature / Fabienne Huber Vulliet
- Keeping company with men of learning: the King as Scholar / Eckart Frahm
- From street altar to palace: reading the built environment of urban Babylonia / Heather D. Baker.
- Part VI. Making knowledge : The production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge / Eleanor Robson
- Tablets of schools and scholars: a portrait of the Old Babylonian Corpus / Steve Tinney
- Adapting to new contexts: cuneiform in Anatolia / Mark Weeden
- Observing and describing the world through divination and astronomy / Francesca Rochberg
- Berossos between tradition and innovation / Geert De Breucker.
- Part VII. Shaping tradition : Agriculture as civilization: sages, farmers, and barbarians / F. A. M. Wiggermann
- Sourcing, organizing, and administering medicinal ingredients / Barbara Böck
- Changing images of kingship in sumerian literature / Nicole Brisch
- The Pious King: royal patronage of temples / Caroline Waerzeggers
- Cuneiform culture's last guardiands: the old urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk / Philippe Clancier.