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Texts and Contexts : The Circulation and Transmission of Cuneiform Texts in Social Space / ed. by Paul Delnero, Jacob Lauinger.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) ; 9Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614517177
  • 9781614519638
  • 9781614515371
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 290
LOC classification:
  • PJ3601 .T49 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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