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Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia
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Cuneiform
Thanks to the use of clay tablets as a writing medium, cuneiform records have survived for thousands of years, providing a fascinating glimpse into the political, economic, and religious institutions of ancient Mesopotamia.
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Ebla and its archives : texts, history, and society
The cuneiform tablets from Ebla (3rd millenium BC) attest to the most ancient Semitic language and provide insight into a period in the history and religion of Syria that was previously unknown. The restoration, interpretation, and classification of these tablets has taken more than thirty years. This volume presents a collection of 49 essays from one of the foremost experts on Ebla and its broader ancient context and includes important studies on the language, society, political relations, and religion of this ancient Near Eastern city-state.
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An Introduction to Akkadian Literature
This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian
literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one
relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the
literary competence necessary to read and interpret Akkadian texts
in translation and will gain a broad familiarity with the major
genres and compositions in the language.
The first part of the book presents introductory discussions of
major critical issues, organized under four key rubrics: tablets,
scribes, compositions, and audiences. Here, the reader will find
descriptions of the tablets used as writing material; the training
scribes received and the institutional contexts in which they
worked; the general characteristics of Akkadian compositions, with
an emphasis on poetic and literary features; and the various
audiences or users of Akkadian texts. The second part surveys the
corpus of Akkadian literature defined inclusively, canvasing a wide
spectrum of compositions. Legal codes, historical inscriptions,
divinatory compendia, and religious texts have a place in the
survey alongside narrative poems, such as the Epic of
Gilgamesh , Enuma elish , and Babylonian
Theodicy . Extensive footnotes and a generous bibliography
guide readers who wish to continue their study.
Essential for students of Assyriology, An Introduction to
Akkadian Literature will also prove useful to biblical
scholars, classicists, Egyptologists, ancient historians, and
literary comparativists.
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Bodies of knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia: the diviners of late Bronze Age Emar and their table collection
In Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Matthew Rutz explores the relationship between ancient collections of texts, commonly deemed libraries and archives, and the modern interpretation of titles like 'diviner'. By looking at cuneiform tablets as artifacts with archaeological contexts, this work probes the modern analytical categories used to study ancient diviners and investigates the transmission of Babylonian/Assyrian scholarship in Syria. During the Late Bronze Age diviners acted as high-ranking scribes and cultic functionaries in Emar, a town on the Syrian Euphrates (ca. 1375-1175 BCE). This book's centerpiece is an extensive analytical catalogue of the excavated tablet collection of one family of diviners. Over seventy-five fragments are identified for the first time, along with many proposed joins between fragments.
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The tablets from the temple precinct at Nuzi
Analysis of economic cuneiform documents from 2nd-millennium BC Nuzi. Business relationships and processes are explored. Seal impressions are drawn and analyzed. Includes photos, transliteration, translation, and commentary.
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Bodies of knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia : the diviners of late Bronze Age Emar and their tablet collection
In Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Matthew Rutz investigates how libraries and archives can be used to study ancient diviners, an approach illustrated using one family's cuneiform tablet collection from Emar on the Syrian Euphrates (ca. 1375-1175 BCE).
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