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Scholars and scholarship in late Babylonian Uruk

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Scholars and scholarship in late Babylonian Urukedited by Christine Proust, John Steele.
other author:	Proust, Christine.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019.
Description:	x, 274 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Learning and scholarshipIraq
Subject:	Erech (Extinct city)Intellectual life.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04176-2
ISBN:	9783030041762$q(electronic bk.)

Scholars and scholarship in late Babylonian Uruk
Scholars and scholarship in late Babylonian Uruk[electronic resource] /edited by Christine Proust, John Steele. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019. - x, 274 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Why the sciences of the ancient world matter ;v.2. - Why the sciences of the ancient world matter ;v.1..

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia. It offers an exercise in micro-history that provides a case study for attempting to understand the relationship between scholars and scholarship during this time of great innovation. The papers in this collection focus on tablets written in the city of Uruk in southern Babylonia. These archives come from two different scholarly contexts. One is a private residence inhabited during successive phases by two families of priests who were experts in ritual and medicine. The other is the most important temple in Uruk during the late Achemenid and Hellenistic periods. The contributors undertake detailed studies of this material to explore the scholarly practices of individuals, the connection between different scholarly genres, and the exchange of knowledge between scholars in the city and scholars in other parts of Babylonia and the Greek world. In addition, this collection examines the archives in which the texts were found and the scribes who owned or wrote them. It also considers the interconnections between different genres of knowledge and the range of activities of individual scribes. In doing so, it answers questions of interest not only for the study of Babylonian scholarship but also for the study of ancient Mesopotamian textual culture more generally, and for the study of traditions of written knowledge in the ancient world.

ISBN: 9783030041762$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-04176-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

837805
Learning and scholarship
--IraqSubjects--Geographical Terms:

837803
Erech (Extinct city)
--Intellectual life.

LC Class. No.: AZ301 / .S365 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 001.2093

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