An authoritative guide to the Ancient Middle East as seen through the lens of cuneiform writing, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia. Written by a team of international scholars, with chapter bibliographies and numerous illustrations, the Handbook is a state-of-the-art guide to the discipline as well as offering pathways for future research.
An authoritative guide to the Ancient Middle East as seen through the lens of cuneiform writing, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia. Written by a team of international scholars, with chapter bibliographies and numerous illustrations, the Handbook is a state-of-the-art guide to the discipline as well as offering pathways for future research.
Karen Radner (PhD Vienna 1997, Habilation Munich 2004) is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich. Her main research interests are in Assyria, especially the period from the 9th to the 7th centuries BC, on whose political, social, economic, legal, and religious history she has published extensively. Her books include editions of Middle and Neo-Assyrian archives and a study on how awareness of man's mortality shaped Mesopotamian culture (Die Macht des Namens: altorientalische Strategien zur Selbsterhaltung, 2005). She directs an AHRC-funded research project on the correspondence between the Assyrian kings and their magnates in the 8th century BC (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sargon). Eleanor Robson is Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at University College London. Her research focuses on the socio-political contexts of intellectual activity in ancient Mesopotamia and the online edition of cuneiform texts. She is the author of Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History (2008) and director of the AHRC-funded research project, The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, 700-200 BC (http://oracc.org/gkab).
Inhaltsangabe
* I. Materiality and literacies * 1: Jonathan Taylor: Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans * 2: Robert K. Englund: Accounting in proto-cuneiform * 3: Grégory Chambon: Numeracy and metrology * 4: Niek Veldhuis: Levels of literacy * 5: Brigitte Lion: Literacy and gender * II. Individuals and communities * 6: Benjamin R. Foster: The person in Mesopotamian thought * 7: Frans van Koppen: The scribe of the Flood Story and his circle * 8: Hagan Brunke: Feasts for the living, the dead, and the gods * 9: Michael Jursa: Cuneiform writing in Neo-Babylonian temple communities * 10: Eva von Dassow: Freedom in ancient Near Eastern societies * III. Experts and novices * 11: Yoram Cohen and Sivan Kedar: Teacher-student relationships: two case studies * 12: Dominique Charpin: Patron and client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum the diviner * 13: Michel Tanret: Learned, rich, famous and unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar * 14: Nele Ziegler: Music, the work of professionals * 15: Silvie Zamazalová: The education of Neo-Assyrian princes * IV. Decisions * 16: Sophie Démare-Lafont: Judicial decision-making: judges and arbitrators * 17: Karen Radner: Royal decision-making: kings, magnates and scholars * 18: Andreas Fuchs: Assyria at war: strategy and conduct * 19: Anne Löhnert: Manipulating the gods: lamenting in context * 20: Daniel Schwemer: Magic rituals: conceptualisation and performance * V. Interpretations * 21: Ulla Susanne Koch: Sheep and sky: systems of divinatory interpretation * 22: John M. Steele: Making sense of time: observational and theoretical calendars * 23: Fabienne Huber Vulliet: Letters as correspondence, letters as literature * 24: Eckart Frahm: Keeping company with men of learning: the king as scholar * 25: Heather D. Baker: From street altar to palace: reading the built environment of urban Babylonia * VI. Making knowledge * 26: Eleanor Robson: The production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge * 27: Steve Tinney: Tablets of schools and scholars: a portrait of the Old Babylonian corpus * 28: Mark Weeden: Adapting to new contexts: cuneiform in Anatolia * 29: Francesca Rochberg: Observing and describing the world through divination and astronomy * 30: Geert De Breucker: Berossos between tradition and innovation * VII. Shaping tradition * 31: Frans Wiggermann: Agriculture as civilization: sages, farmers, and barbarians * 32: Barbara Böck: Sourcing, organising, and administering medicinal ingredients * 33: Nicole Brisch: Changing images of kingship in Sumerian literature * 34: Caroline Waerzeggers: The pious king: royal patronage of temples * 35: Philippe Clancier: Cuneiform culture's last guardians: the old urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk
* I. Materiality and literacies * 1: Jonathan Taylor: Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans * 2: Robert K. Englund: Accounting in proto-cuneiform * 3: Grégory Chambon: Numeracy and metrology * 4: Niek Veldhuis: Levels of literacy * 5: Brigitte Lion: Literacy and gender * II. Individuals and communities * 6: Benjamin R. Foster: The person in Mesopotamian thought * 7: Frans van Koppen: The scribe of the Flood Story and his circle * 8: Hagan Brunke: Feasts for the living, the dead, and the gods * 9: Michael Jursa: Cuneiform writing in Neo-Babylonian temple communities * 10: Eva von Dassow: Freedom in ancient Near Eastern societies * III. Experts and novices * 11: Yoram Cohen and Sivan Kedar: Teacher-student relationships: two case studies * 12: Dominique Charpin: Patron and client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum the diviner * 13: Michel Tanret: Learned, rich, famous and unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar * 14: Nele Ziegler: Music, the work of professionals * 15: Silvie Zamazalová: The education of Neo-Assyrian princes * IV. Decisions * 16: Sophie Démare-Lafont: Judicial decision-making: judges and arbitrators * 17: Karen Radner: Royal decision-making: kings, magnates and scholars * 18: Andreas Fuchs: Assyria at war: strategy and conduct * 19: Anne Löhnert: Manipulating the gods: lamenting in context * 20: Daniel Schwemer: Magic rituals: conceptualisation and performance * V. Interpretations * 21: Ulla Susanne Koch: Sheep and sky: systems of divinatory interpretation * 22: John M. Steele: Making sense of time: observational and theoretical calendars * 23: Fabienne Huber Vulliet: Letters as correspondence, letters as literature * 24: Eckart Frahm: Keeping company with men of learning: the king as scholar * 25: Heather D. Baker: From street altar to palace: reading the built environment of urban Babylonia * VI. Making knowledge * 26: Eleanor Robson: The production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge * 27: Steve Tinney: Tablets of schools and scholars: a portrait of the Old Babylonian corpus * 28: Mark Weeden: Adapting to new contexts: cuneiform in Anatolia * 29: Francesca Rochberg: Observing and describing the world through divination and astronomy * 30: Geert De Breucker: Berossos between tradition and innovation * VII. Shaping tradition * 31: Frans Wiggermann: Agriculture as civilization: sages, farmers, and barbarians * 32: Barbara Böck: Sourcing, organising, and administering medicinal ingredients * 33: Nicole Brisch: Changing images of kingship in Sumerian literature * 34: Caroline Waerzeggers: The pious king: royal patronage of temples * 35: Philippe Clancier: Cuneiform culture's last guardians: the old urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk
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