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Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, 2
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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.
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