Texts and Contexts: The Circulation and Transmission of Cuneiform Texts in Social Space

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Texts and Contexts

The Circulation and Transmission of Cuneiform Texts in Social Space

Edited by: Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger

Volume 9 in the series Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515371

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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1. Introduction Reassembling the Social from Texts and Contexts Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Textual Circulation and Performance
2. Emar’s entu Installation Revising Ritual and Text Together Daniel E. Fleming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Contextualizing Tradition Magic, Literacy and Domestic Life in Old Assyrian Kanesh Gojko Barjamovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
4. Texts and Performance The Materiality and Function of the Sumerian Liturgical Corpus Paul Delnero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Textual Circulation and Administrative Praxis
5. Contingency Tables and Economic Forecasting in the Earliest Texts from Mesopotamia Christopher Woods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
6. Ur III Administrative Texts Building Blocks of State Community Steven J. Garfinkle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
7. Policing, Planning, and Provisos The Function of Legal Texts in the Management of the Eanna Temple’s Livestock in the First Millennium BC Michael Kozuh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Textual Circulation and the Mechanics of Production
8. The “Magic” of Adapa Sara J. Milstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
9. The Text after the Sacrifice Divination Reports from Kassite Babylonia Matthew T. Rutz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
10. Songs of Clay Materiality and Poetics in Early Akkadian Epic Christian W. Hess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
11. Neo-Assyrian Scribes, “Esarhaddon’s Succession Treaty,” and the Dynamics of Textual Mass Production Jacob Lauinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in Ancient Near Eastern history and culture, especially the function and context of cuneiform texts.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 314
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 55
Keywords: cuneiform texts; textual transmission; materiality; transmission of knowledge

eBook

Published: November 13, 2015
ISBN: 9781614515371

Hardcover

Published: October 29, 2015
ISBN: 9781614517177