An authoritative guide to the Ancient Middle East as seen through the lens ofcuneiform writing, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia. Written by a team of international scholars, with chapter bibliographies and numerous illustrations, the Handbook is a state-of-the-art guide to the discipline as well as offering pathways for future research. INDICE: I. Materiality and literacies; 1: Jonathan Taylor: Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans; 2: Robert K. Englund: Accounting in proto-cuneiform; 3: Grégory Chambon: Numeracy and metrology; 4: Niek Veldhuis: Levels of literacy; 5: Brigitte Lion: Literacy and gender; II. Individuals and communities;6: Benjamin R. Foster: The person in Mesopotamian thought; 7: Frans van Koppen: The scribe of the Flood Story and his circle; 8: Hagan Brunke: Feasts for the living, the dead, and the gods; 9: Michael Jursa: Cuneiform writing in Neo-Babylonian temple communities; 10: Eva von Dassow: Freedom in ancient Near Eastern societies; III. Experts and novices; 11: Yoram Cohen & Sivan Kedar: Teacher-student relationships: two case studies; 12: Dominique Charpin: Patron and client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum the diviner; 13: Michel Tanret: Learned, rich, famous and unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar; 14: Nele Ziegler: Music, the work of professionals; 15: Silvie Zamazalová: The education of Neo-Assyrian princes; IV. Decisions; 16: Sophie Démare-Lafont: Judicial decision-making: judges and arbitrators; 17: Karen Radner: Royal decision-making: kings, magnates and scholars;18: Andreas Fuchs: Assyria at war: strategy and conduct; 19: Anne Löhnert: Manipulating the gods: lamenting in context; 20: Daniel Schwemer: Magic rituals:conceptualisation and performance; V. Interpretations; 21: Ulla Susanne Koch:Sheep and sky: systems of divinatory interpretation; 22: John M. Steele: Making sense of time: observational and theoretical calendars; 23: Fabienne Huber Vulliet: Letters as correspondence, letters as literature; 24: Eckart Frahm: Keeping company with men of learning: the king as scholar; 25: Heather D. Baker: From street altar to palace: reading the built environment of urban Babylonia; VI. Making knowledge; 26: Eleanor Robson: The production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge; 27: Steve Tinney: Tablets of schools and scholars: a portrait of the Old Babylonian corpus; 28: Mark Weeden: Adapting to new contexts: cuneiform in Anatolia; 29: Francesca Rochberg: Observing and describing theworld through divination and astronomy; 30: Geert De Breucker: Berossos between tradition and innovation; VII. Shaping tradition; 31: Frans Wiggermann: Agriculture as civilization: sages, farmers, and barbarians; 32: Barbara Böck: Sourcing, organising, and administering medicinal ingredients; 33: Nicole Brisch: Changing images of kingship in Sumerian literature; 34: Caroline Waerzeggers: The pious king: royal patronage of temples; 35: Philippe Clancier: Cuneiformculture's last guardians: the old urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk
- ISBN: 978-0-19-955730-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 800
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés