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Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia

By: Alhena Gadotti,Alexandra Kleinerman

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Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia

By: Alhena Gadotti,Alexandra Kleinerman

In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal training due to its cultural importance. This book provides transliterations and translations of 715 cuneiform scribal school exercise texts from the Jonathan and Jeanette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Studies Collection at Cornell University. These tablets, consisting mainly of lexical texts, illustrate the process of elementary foreign-language training at scribal schools during the Old Babylonian period. Although the tablets are all without provenance, discrepancies between these texts and those from other sites, such as Nippur and Ur, strongly suggest that the texts published here do not come from a previously studied location. Comparing these tablets with previously published documents, Gadotti and Kleinerman argue that elementary education in Mesopotamia was relatively standardized and that knowledge of cuneiform writing was more widespread than previously assumed. By refining our understanding of education in southern Mesopotamia, this volume elucidates more fully the pedagogical underpinnings of the world’s first curriculum devised to teach a dead language. As a text edition, it will make these important documents accessible to Assyriologists and Sumerologists for future study.

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Penn State Press

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1646021800

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Living and Dying in Mesopotamia

By: Alhena Gadotti,Alexandra Kleinerman

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Living and Dying in Mesopotamia

By: Alhena Gadotti,Alexandra Kleinerman

Exploring life, death, and the afterlife in Mesopotamia, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman examine how life and death experiences continually developed over the course of nearly three millennia of Mesopotamian history. To achieve this, the book follows the life cycle of the people of the Tigris and Euphrates River valleys from 3000 BCE to 300 BCE, from birth, through death, and beyond. This book is the first to interrogate the relationships between living and dying through case studies and primary evidence. Including letters written by both women and men, the book allows readers to enter the minds of the ancients. First, the authors focus on life through topics such as the rituals surrounding birth, marriage, and religion. The authors then examine the common causes of death, the rituals associated with death, and the Mesopotamian views of the netherworld, its gods, and inhabitants. Concepts of gender fluidity, both in life and death, are considered alongside evidence from epigraphic data. Illustrating daily life as a multifaceted subject affected by time, space, location, socioeconomics, and gender, this book creates a window into the conditions and concerns of the Mesopotamian people.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350301884

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Education in Early 2nd Millennium BC Babylonia

The Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany

By: Alexandra Kleinerman

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The Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany

By: Alexandra Kleinerman

This book examines a collection of twenty-two literary letters and related compositions – the Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany (SEpM) – studied as part of the Old Babylonian Sumerian scribal curriculum, in an attempt to better understand the education system at this time. The author includes discussion of the nature of the letters as scribal inventions, the pedagogical function of literary letters and compilation tablets, as well as the creation, implementation and consistency of the advanced Sumerian scribal curriculum. The volume also contains critical editions of SEpM as well as ancillary Sumerian letters studied in the Nippur schools, the majority of which were previously unpublished.

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BRILL

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9004214232

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9789004214231

Living and Dying in Mesopotamia

By: Alhena Gadotti,Alexandra Kleinerman

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Education in Early 2nd Millennium BC Babylonia

The Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany

By: Alexandra Kleinerman

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The Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany

By: Alexandra Kleinerman

This book examines a collection of twenty-two literary letters and related compositions, the Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany, studied as part of the Old Babylonian Sumerian scribal curriculum, in an attempt to better understand the nature of the curriculum as a whole.

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9004212426

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The Nesbit Tablets

By: David I. Owen

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The Nesbit Tablets

By: David I. Owen

In 1914, William M. Nesbit published his dissertation at Columbia University on 30 archival texts from the Third Dynasty of Ur. Now, more than a century later, the remaining tablets in his collection have been recovered and, thanks to the generosity of the Nesbit family, were made available for publication by David I. Owen. The majority of texts published here is from Puzriš-Dagan (Drehem) with some from Nippur and Umma. They originate from the earliest clandestine finds at those sites. The 98 texts, including a re-edition of the previously published tablets, are provided with a catalogue, hand-copies, selected photographs, along with transliterations, translations and comments, thus providing an important addition to the extensive corpus of Ur III texts from this important period in Mesopotamian history.

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Penn State Press

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157506393X

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Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia

Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia

Living and Dying in Mesopotamia

Living and Dying in Mesopotamia

Education in Early 2nd Millennium BC Babylonia

Education in Early 2nd Millennium BC Babylonia

Living and Dying in Mesopotamia

Living and Dying in Mesopotamia

Education in Early 2nd Millennium BC Babylonia

Education in Early 2nd Millennium BC Babylonia

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