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Texts and Contexts
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.
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The class reunion : an annotated translation and commentary on the Sumerian dialogue, Two scribes
The Class Reunion offers a critical edition, translation and commentary on the Sumerian scholastic dialogue otherwise known as Two Scribes and speaks to the central themes of scholastic thought in the Old Babylonian Tablet House (ca. 1800-1600 BCE).
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The corpus is characterised by a very large number of divergent writings, orthographic variants which demonstrate not simply errors on the part of the scribe - though these do, of course, feature - but rather attest to the fact that Sumerian literature, in the form in which we have it, allowed and indeed perhaps encouraged a degree of parallel traditions in the manifest text(s). Comparing manuscripts and versions from across this time period throws up issues of the oral origins and probable continuing oral traditions of the repertoire; divergences due to developments in grammar, orthography and pronunciation; substitutions resulting from semantic differences in the thesauri of different time periods; modernisations carried out by scribes in order to bring texts up to date and compliant with contemporary practice; and the existence of different recensional traditions. The next classes of variants chiefly relate to the work of trainee scribes - variants within sources compiled by the same scribe (or group of scribes), idiosyncratic variants (erroneous omissions, phonetic spellings and grammatical errors committed by individual scribes) and interpretative variants (resulting from a scribe who has misinterpreted a passage and introduced an incorrect substitution).
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REVIEWS
Kramer was faced with a veritable deluge of more-or-less unreliable student exercises that happened to witness to the great bulk of Sumerian literature, while Jacobsen was dealing with the numerous manuscripts of a single chronographic text that was, in all likelihood, never part of the school curriculum. The most important innovations in Delnero's thinking between dissertation and book are twofold: the entire project has been reconceptualized as a case-study in Sumerian textual criticism; and the role of memorization, which is also the theme of a recent paper by Delnero (\"Memorization and the transmission of Sumerian literature\", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 71, 2012, 189-208), has taken centre-stage in Delnero's thinking on variation in Sumerian literature. The lack of a clear description of contamination (viz. horizontal transfer of a reading from one manuscript family to another, thus presupposing the existence of manuscript families, even if difficult to identify) is troubling because, as Timpanaro noted from the grave: \"... there are cases (many, as Pasquali noted) in which contamination and interpolation have acted so extensively and so early as to make it impossible to trace out any stemma at all (those cases in which Pasquali, referring only to contamination, speaks of as 'total pretraditional contamination')\" (Timpanaro, The Genesis of Lachmann's Method (Chicago, 2005), p. 212, citing Pasquali, Storia della tradizione (Florence, 1934/1952), pp. 146-55, 177-80).
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Die Klage
Die ATB ist die traditionsreichste Editionsreihe der germanistischen Mediävistik. Begründet 1881 von Hermann Paul, wurde sie von führenden Fachvertretern, Georg Baesecke, Hugo Kuhn, Burghart Wachinger, betreut. Seit 2001 liegt die Verantwortung in den Händen von Christian Kiening. Die mittlerweile etwa 120 Bände verknüpfen exemplarisch Handschriftennähe und Lesbarkeit, wissenschaftliche Arbeit am Text und Blick auf die akademische Lehre. Sie umfassen anerkannte, zum Teil kommentierte Ausgaben ,klassischer' Autoren der Zeit um 1200, aber auch veritable Werkausgaben (Notker der Deutsche) und anspruchsvolle Neueditionen (Eckenlied, Heinrich von dem Türlin).
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Ur-Namma the Canal-Digger: Context, Continuity and Change in Sumerian Literature
Three traditions of the Sumerian Ur-Namma hymn, also known as \"Ur-Namma D\" & \"The Coronation of Ur-Nammu,\" are presented synoptically using a standardized labeling system for (1) the Yale tradition, represented by a single unprovenanced one-column exercise tablet; (2) the Ur tradition, comprising two such tablets preserving the same text with spelling variations; & (3) the Nippur tradition, consisting of a one-column exercise tablet & a two-column collective tablet containing the same text; photographs of each tablet are provided. The text of each tradition is also presented separately with an English translation & commentary proposing a maximal reconstruction of the text based on an analysis of its literary content; the royal rhetoric in the text is suggested to be an addition due to its use in the training of scribes, not a reference to a coronation as previously claimed. It is concluded that the text contributes nothing to an understanding of the history of the Ur III period, as its reuse in diverse contexts accounts for the associations of (3) with the Dumuzi-Inanna literature & aquatic fertility & those of (1) & (2) with Nanna & royal rhetoric. 5 Plates. J. Hitchcock
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The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature
[Distributed by ISD, Bristol, Conn.] Paul Delnero's publication The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature, based on his doctoral dissertation Variation in Sumerian Literary Compositions: A Case Study Based on the Decad, University of Pennsylvania, 2006, contains a completely new approach to dealing with variants in Sumerian literary compositions of the Old Babylonian Period. To give two examples, if a certain type of variant is not attested in sources from location A, but occurs in locations B and C, Delnero draws the conclusion that is must be a regional variation from B and C. Secondly, whereas the assumption that a typical idiosyncratic variant caused by a lapse of concentration occurs only once on a tablet (Type A variant) seems plausible, inferring that all variants attested once only are errors of that kind may not convince everyone, given the accidental and incomplete nature of this text corpus.
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