TY - BOOK AU - Barjamovic,Gojko AU - Delnero,Paul AU - Fleming,Daniel E. AU - Garfinkle,Steven J. AU - Hess,Christian W. AU - Kozuh,Michael AU - Lauinger,Jacob AU - Milstein,Sara J. AU - Rutz,Matthew T. AU - Woods,Christopher TI - Texts and Contexts: The Circulation and Transmission of Cuneiform Texts in Social Space T2 - Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) , SN - 9781614517177 AV - PJ3601 .T49 2015 U1 - 290 PY - 2015///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Akkadian language KW - Texts KW - Congresses KW - Assyro-Babylonian literature KW - History and criticism KW - Sumerian language KW - Sumerian literature KW - Akkadian KW - Sumerian KW - cuneiform KW - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages (see also Latin) KW - bisacsh KW - cuneiform texts KW - materiality KW - textual transmission KW - transmission of knowledge N1 - Frontmatter --; 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515371 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614515371 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614515371/original ER -