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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464446803321

Titolo

Texts and contexts : the circulation and transmission of cuneiform texts in social space / / edited by Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61451-963-3

1-61451-537-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records, , 2161-4415 ; ; Volume 9

Disciplina

892.1

Soggetti

Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism

Sumerian literature - History and criticism

Akkadian language

Sumerian language

Transmission of texts - Iraq - History

Electronic books.

Iraq Civilization To 634 Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The papers in this volume were first presented in their initial form at a one-day symposium organized by the editors at Johns Hopkins University on November 19, 2013."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Emar’s entu Installation -- 3. Contextualizing Tradition -- 4. Texts and Performance -- 5. Contingency Tables and Economic Forecasting in the Earliest Texts from Mesopotamia -- 6. Ur III Administrative Texts -- 7. Policing, Planning, and Provisos -- 8. The “Magic” of Adapa -- 9. The Text after the Sacrifice -- 10. Songs of Clay -- 11. Neo-Assyrian Scribes, “Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty,” and the Dynamics of Textual Mass Production

Sommario/riassunto

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.