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The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture
Edited by Karen Radner and Eleanor Robson
840 pages
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111 in-text illustrations
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246x171mm
978-0-19-955730-1
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Hardback
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22 September 2011
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- Restores coherence and context to the study of Assyriology through its emphasis on textual sources which are at the same time material artefacts
- Written by an outstanding team of international scholars
- Disciplines of archaeology, history, and philology are combined to produce an integrated picture
- More than 100 illustrations, including maps and timelines, provide easy access to key information
The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture examines the Ancient Middle East through the lens of cuneiform writing. The contributors, a mix of scholars from across the disciplines, explore, define, and to some extent look beyond the boundaries of the written word, using Mesopotamia's clay tablets and stone inscriptions not just as 'texts' but also as material
artefacts that offer much additional information about their creators, readers, users and owners.Readership: Scholars and students of Assyriology; of the history, archaeology, religion, and culture of the ancient Near East.
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Edited by Karen Radner, Reader in Ancient Near Eastern History, University College London, and Eleanor Robson, Reader in Ancient Middle Eastern Science, University of Cambridge Contributors:
Heather D. Baker, University of Vienna
Barbara Böck, Spanish Council of Scientific Research, Madrid
Nicole Brisch, University of Cambridge
Hagan Brunke, Freie Universitat & Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin
Grégory Chambon, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest
Dominique Charpin, Sorbonne, Paris
Philippe Clancier, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris
Yoram Cohen, Tel Aviv
University
Geert De Breucker, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Sophie Démare-Lafont, Universite Pantheon-Assas & Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Robert K. Englund, University of California at Los Angeles
Benjamin R. Foster, Yale University
Eckart Frahm, Yale University
Andreas Fuchs, Eberhard-Karls-Universitat, Tubingen
Fabienne Huber Vulliet, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich
Michael Jursa, University of Vienna
Sivan Kedar, Tel Aviv University
Ulla Susanne Koch, University of Copenhagen
Frans van Koppen, Birkbeck College, University of London
Brigitte Lion, University of Tours
Anne Löhnert, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich
Karen Radner, University College London
Eleanor Robson, University of Cambridge
Francesca Rochberg, University of California at Berkeley
Daniel Schwemer, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
John M. Steele, Brown University
Michel Tanret, Ghent University
Jonathan Taylor, The British Museum
Steve Tinney, University of Pennsylvania
Niek Veldhuis, University of California at Berkeley
Eva von Dassow, University of Minnesota
Caroline Waerzeggers, Free University of Amsterdam
Mark Weeden, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Frans Wiggermann
Silvie Zamazalová, University College London
Nele Ziegler, Centre National de
Recherche Scientifique, Paris
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"Thanks are due to the K. Radner and E. Robson for the care with which they edited this voluminous book." - Bibliotheca Orientalis
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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 the world 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: Cuneiform culture's last guardians: the old urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk
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