Texts and Contexts
The Circulation and Transmission of Cuneiform Texts in Social Space
1st Edition
Published on 13. November 2015
VI, 314 pages
978-1-61451-537-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Paul Delnero | Jacob Lauinger
Texts and Contexts
The Circulation and Transmission of Cuneiform Texts in Social Space
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10/2015
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€149.95
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Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Textual Circulation and Performance
- 2. Emar's entu Installation
- 3. Contextualizing Tradition
- 4. Texts and Performance
- Textual Circulation and Administrative Praxis
- 5. Contingency Tables and Economic Forecasting in the Earliest Texts from Mesopotamia
- 6. Ur III Administrative Texts
- 7. Policing, Planning, and Provisos
- Textual Circulation and the Mechanics of Production
- 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
