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Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia
In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman
investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old
Babylonian period in areas outside major cities.
Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time,
Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal training due to
its cultural importance. This book provides transliterations and
translations of 715 cuneiform scribal school exercise texts from
the Jonathan and Jeanette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Collection at Cornell University. These tablets, consisting mainly
of lexical texts, illustrate the process of elementary
foreign-language training at scribal schools during the Old
Babylonian period. Although the tablets are all without provenance,
discrepancies between these texts and those from other sites, such
as Nippur and Ur, strongly suggest that the texts published here do
not come from a previously studied location. Comparing these
tablets with previously published documents, Gadotti and Kleinerman
argue that elementary education in Mesopotamia was relatively
standardized and that knowledge of cuneiform writing was more
widespread than previously assumed.
By refining our understanding of education in southern
Mesopotamia, this volume elucidates more fully the pedagogical
underpinnings of the world's first curriculum devised to teach a
dead language. As a text edition, it will make these important
documents accessible to Assyriologists and Sumerologists for future
study.
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Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle
In den Bänden der Reihe werden Themen aus der Philologie der Keilschriftsprachen (Sumerisch, Akkadisch, Hethitisch, Hurritisch, Elamisch u. a.), der altorientalischen Geschichte sowie der vorderasiatischen Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte behandelt. Der geographische Rahmen umfasst primär Mesopotamien, Nordsyrien, Anatolien, Altarmenien und Elam sowie sekundär weitere Gebiete, die in engem Kontakt mit den Keilschriftkulturen stehen. Im Zentrum steht der Zeitraum vom vierten bis zum ersten Jahrtausend v. Chr.
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The Rules of the School
“The Rules of the School,” or Eduba R, is a previously unedited Sumerian literary composition that describes a day in the life of an Old Babylonian student. In this paper, we examine the nature of Eduba R, its place within the corpus of scribal life texts (and particularly its relationship to the more popular composition Eduba A), and its pedagogical role within the Old Babylonian scribal school curriculum as a whole. In addition, we publish a transliteration, translation, commentary, and photos of the two primary manuscripts of the composition.
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Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts. By John L. Hays
A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts. By John L. Hays. Aids and Research Tools in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, vol. 5. 3rd ed. Malibu, CA: unDena publications, 2018. Pp. vi + 579. $50 (paper).
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God Enki in Sumerian Royal Ideology and Mythology. By Peeter Espak
The God Enki in Sumerian Royal Ideology and Mythology. By Peeter Espak. Philippika, vol. 87. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. Pp. xviii + 235. €52 (paper).
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Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources. By Julia M. Asher-Greve and JoaN Goodnick Westenholz
Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources. By Julia M. Asher-Greve and Joan Goodnick Westenholz. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, vol. 259. Fribourg: Academic Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 454, illus. €106.
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Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur. By Nili Samet
The Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur. By Nili Samet. Mesopotamian Civilizations, vol. 18. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2014. Pp. xii + 286, 29 plts. $89.50.
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Sumerian Model Contracts from the Old Babylonian Period in the Hilprecht Collection Jena. By Gabriella Spada
Sumerian Model Contracts from the Old Babylonian Period in the Hilprecht Collection Jena. By Gabriella Spada. Texte und Materialien der Hilprecht Collection, vol. 11. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. Pp. x + 126, 32 pls. €78.
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Eršema Prayers of the First Millennium BC. By Uri Gabbay
The Eršema Prayers of the First Millennium BC. By Uri Gabbay. Heidelberger Emesal-Studien, vol. 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015 . Pp . xv + 375, 30 pls . €89 .
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