The Oxford handbook of Cuneiform culture
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Handbook of cuneiform culture |
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Radner, Karen
Robson, Eleanor. |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Ausgabe: | 1rst. publ. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xxxii, 805 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Oxford handbooks
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| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Machine generated contents note:
- I. Materiality and literacies
- 1. Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans, Jonathan Taylor
- 2. Accounting in proto-cuneiform, Robert K. Englund
- 3. Numeracy and metrology, Gregory Chambon
- 4. Levels of literacy, Niek Veldhuis
- 5. Literacy and gender, Brigitte Lion
- II. Individuals and communities
- 6. The person in Mesopotamian thought, Benjamin R. Foster
- 7. The scribe of the Flood Story and his circle, Frans van Koppen
- 8. Feasts for the living, the dead, and the gods, Hagan Brunke
- 9. Cuneiform writing in Neo-Babylonian temple communities, Michael Jursa
- 10. Freedom in ancient Near Eastern societies, Eva von Dassow
- III. Experts and novices
- 11. Teacher-student relationships: two case studies, Yoram Cohen & Sivan Kedar
- 12. Patron and client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum the diviner, Dominique Charpin
- 13. Learned, rich, famous and unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar, Michel Tanret
- 14. Music, the work of professionals, Nele Ziegler
- 15. The education of Neo-Assyrian princes, Silvie Zamazalova
- IV. Decisions
- 16. Judicial decision-making: judges and arbitrators, Sophie Demare-Lafont
- 17. Royal decision-making: kings, magnates and scholars, Karen Radner
- 18. Assyria at war: strategy and conduct, Andreas Fuchs
- 19. Manipulating the gods: lamenting in context, Anne Lohnert
- 20. Magic rituals: conceptualisation and performance, Daniel Schwemer
- V. Interpretations
- 21. Sheep and sky: systems of divinatory interpretation, Ulla Susanne Koch
- 22. Making sense of time: observational and theoretical calendars, John M. Steele
- 23. Letters as correspondence, letters as literature, Fabienne Huber Vulliet
- 24. Keeping company with men of learning: the king as scholar, Eckart Frahm
- 25. From street altar to palace: reading the built environment of urban Babylonia, Heather D. Baker
- VI. Making knowledge
- 26. The production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge, Eleanor Robson
- 27. Tablets of schools and scholars: a portrait of the Old Babylonian corpus, Steve Tinney
- 28. Adapting to new contexts: cuneiform in Anatolia, Mark Weeden
- 29. Observing and describing the world through divination and astronomy, Francesca Rochberg
- 30. Berossos between tradition and innovation, Geert De Breucker
- VII. Shaping tradition
- 31. Agriculture as civilization: sages, farmers, and barbarians, Frans Wiggermann
- 32. Sourcing, organising, and administering medicinal ingredients, Barbara Bock
- 33. Changing images of kingship in Sumerian literature, Nicole Brisch
- 34. The pious king: royal patronage of temples, Caroline Waerzeggers
- 35. Cuneiform culture's last guardians: the old urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk, Philippe Clancier.
