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The Lexical Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Author : Miguel Civil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934309117
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Lexical Texts in the Schøyen Collection written by Miguel Civil and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The lexical texts in the Schøyen Collection constitute perhaps the most important group of new lexical sources now known. Miguel Civil has prepared the complete publication of this remarkably well-preserved and diverse collection of sources that adds greatly to the Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon (MSL) series and particularly to those working in lexicography, philology, and Sumerian and Babylonian culture. The volume contains an introduction and complete editions of all the texts, including full transliterations and commentaries, along with accompanying photos of the tablets. This is an invaluable resource for all those working on the languages and culture of Mesopotamia and an essential companion to the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) and the Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (ePSD)"--Prové de l'editor.

Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Author : Christopher Metcalf
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020111
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection written by Christopher Metcalf and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE. The present volume contains fourteen songs composed in praise of the various gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon; it is believed that these songs were typically performed in temple cults. Among them are a song in praise of Sud, goddess of the ancient Mesopotamian city Shuruppak; a song describing the statue of the protective goddess Lamma-saga in the “Sacred City” temple complex at Girsu; and a previously unknown hymn dedicated to the creator god Enki. Each text is provided in transliteration and translation and accompanied by hand-copies and images of the tablets themselves. Expertly contextualizing each song in Babylonian religious and literary history, this thoroughly competent editio princeps will prove a valuable tool for scholars interested in the literary and religious traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.

Ur III Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Author : Jacob L. Dahl
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020774
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Ur III Texts in the Schøyen Collection written by Jacob L. Dahl and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judging from the sheer amount of textual material left to us, the rulers of ancient Ur were above all else concerned with keeping track of their poorest subjects, who made up the majority of the population under their jurisdiction. Year after year, administrators recorded, in frightening detail, the whereabouts of the poorest individuals in monthly and yearly rosters, assigning tiny parcels of land to countless prebend holders and starvation rations to even more numerous estate slaves. The texts published in this volume—dating from the time of the Third Dynasty of Ur (ca. 2100–2000 BC)—attest to the immense investment of the ancient rulers in managing their subjects. This volume presents editions of two hundred and twenty-four cuneiform tablets selected from the Schøyen Collection, the vast majority of which have not been previously published. The ancient provenience for these texts is primarily Umma, with other core provinces represented in smaller numbers, such as notable contributions from ancient Adab, which is underrepresented in the published record. In order to provide a fuller picture of the administration of the Ur III state, a number of texts from other collections, both published and unpublished, have been integrated into this volume. Accompanied by Jacob L. Dahl’s precise translations, extensive commentary, and exhaustive indexes, this volume presents extensive new data on prosopography, economy, accounting procedures, letters, contracts, technical terminology, and agriculture that adds significantly to our knowledge of society and the economy during the Third Dynasty of Ur. An important contribution to the study of the Ur III period, in particular for Assyriology, this volume will serve as a useful handbook for scholars and students alike.

Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two

Author : A. R. George
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020146
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two written by A. R. George and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Mesopotamia, men training to be scribes copied model letters in order to practice writing and familiarize themselves with epistolary forms and expressions. Similarly, model contracts were used to teach them how to draw up agreements for the transactions typical of everyday economic life. This volume makes available a trove of previously unknown tablets and fragments, now housed in the Shøyen Collection, that were produced in the training of scribes in Old Babylonian schools. Following on Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part One: Selected Letters, this volume publishes the contents of sixty-five tablets bearing Akkadian letters used to train scribes and twenty-six prisms and tablets carrying Sumerian legal texts copied in the same context. Each text is presented in transliterated form and in translation, with appropriate commentary and annotations and, at the end of the book, photographs of the cuneiform. The material is made easily navigable by a catalogue, bibliography, and indexes. This collection of previously unknown documents expands the extant corpus of educational texts, making an essential contribution to the study of the ancient world.

Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Author : A. R. George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934309094
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Babylonian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection written by A. R. George and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains previously unpublished Akkadian narrative, praise, and love poetry, new prose compositions, riddles and legal prescriptions.

Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Author : Miguel Civil
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9781934309339
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in the Schøyen Collection by : Miguel Civil

Download or read book Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in the Schøyen Collection written by Miguel Civil and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 107 new royal cuneiform sources that spans most of the written history of Mesopotamia, from the early Dynastic to the Achaemenid periods, and includes associated areas of Elam and Urartu. These are inscriptions on tablets, seals, and incantations bowls collected in the late 1980s and 1990s which derive from a great variety of collections. Each text is provided with full discussion of its contents accompanied by transliteration, translation, copy and photos. The photos are also available on the CDLI and Cornell University websites, where closer scrutiny of the individual tablets is possible.

From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe

Author : Jacob Klein
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020995
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe written by Jacob Klein and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents first editions of a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff. It makes available for the first time three texts representing varying levels of Mesopotamian scribal education. The first is what the authors argue is the most complete copy of the first fifty lines of the standard version of the Sumerian epic Gilgameš and the Bull of Heaven. The second is a hitherto unpublished bilingual (Sumerian-Akkadian) lexical list of unknown provenance, similar to the Proto-Aa syllabary. Each of the 314 entries preserved on this tablet provides a pronunciation gloss, a Sumerian logogram, and an Akkadian translation. A unique feature of this list is that the signs are arranged on the basis of graphic concatenation: each sign contains one of the graphic components of the preceding sign. It also yields a great number of hitherto unknown, synonymous Akkadian translations to the Sumerian logograms. The final chapter contains an edition of two groups of lenticular school tablets, containing thirty-three elementary-level scribal exercises. With this volume, Jacob Klein and Yitschak Sefati preserve and disseminate important artifacts that advance the study of Sumerian literature, Mesopotamian lexicography, and ancient Near Eastern scribal education.

Translation as Scholarship

Author : Jay Crisostomo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501509810
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Translation as Scholarship written by Jay Crisostomo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the 2d millennium BCE, translation occasionally depicted semantically incongruous correspondences. Such cases reflect ancient scribes substantiating their virtuosity with cuneiform writing by capitalizing on phonologic, graphemic, semantic, and other resemblances in the interlingual space. These scholar–scribes employed an essential scribal practice, analogical hermeneutics, an interpretative activity grounded in analogical reasoning and empowered by the potentiality of the cuneiform script. Scribal education systematized such practices, allowing scribes to utilize these habits in copying compositions and creating translations. In scribal education, analogical hermeneutics is exemplified in the word list "Izi", both in its structure and in its occasional bilingualism. By examining "Izi" as a product of the social field of scribal education, this book argues that scribes used analogical hermeneutics to cultivate their craft and establish themselves as knowledgeable scribes. Within a linguistic epistemology of cuneiform scribal culture, translation is a tool in the hands of a knowledgeable scholar.

The First Ninety Years

Author : Lluís Feliu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501503677
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The First Ninety Years written by Lluís Feliu and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Miguel Civil in celebration of his 90th birthday. Civil has been one of the most influential scholars in the field of Sumerian studies over the course of his long career. This anniversary presents a welcome occasion to reflect on some aspects of the field in which he has been such a driving force.

Philosophy before the Greeks

Author : Marc Van De Mieroop
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691176353
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy before the Greeks written by Marc Van De Mieroop and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what came before the Greeks was "before philosophy." In Philosophy before the Greeks, Marc Van De Mieroop, an acclaimed historian of the ancient Near East, presents a groundbreaking argument that, for three millennia before the Greeks, one Near Eastern people had a rich and sophisticated tradition of philosophy fully worthy of the name. In the first century BC, the Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily praised the Babylonians for their devotion to philosophy. Showing the justice of Diodorus's comment, this is the first book to argue that there were Babylonian philosophers and that they studied knowledge systematically using a coherent system of logic rooted in the practices of cuneiform script. Van De Mieroop uncovers Babylonian approaches to knowledge in three areas: the study of language, which in its analysis of the written word formed the basis of all logic; the art of divination, which interpreted communications between gods and humans; and the rules of law, which confirmed that royal justice was founded on truth. The result is an innovative intellectual history of the ancient Near Eastern world during the many centuries in which Babylonian philosophers inspired scholars throughout the region—until the first millennium BC, when the breakdown of this cosmopolitan system enabled others, including the Greeks, to develop alternative methods of philosophical reasoning.

Marbeh Ḥokmah

Author : Shamir Yonah
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575063611
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Marbeh Ḥokmah written by Shamir Yonah and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title, Marbeh Ḥokmah, meaning “increases wisdom,” reflects the fact that Victor Avigdor Hurowitz was a scholar who increased wisdom and who continues to increase the wisdom of scholars throughout the world even after his untimely death at the age of 64. The book was edited by five of Professor Hurowitz’s colleagues: Profs. Shamir Yona and Mayer I. Gruber of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Edward L. Greenstein of Bar-Ilan University, Peter Machinist of Harvard University, and Shalom M. Paul of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The two-volume collection contains 49 groundbreaking essays written by 53 distinguished authors from various institutions of higher learning in Israel and around the world. The authors include Victor’s teachers, colleagues, and students, and the essays deal with a great variety of subjects. The breadth of subject matter featured in Marbeh Ḥokmah is a most appropriate tribute to Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, whose published scholarship encompassed a wide variety of fields of interest pertaining to the study of the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East: Wisdom Literature, Psalmody, prophecy and prophets, the priesthood, eschatology, historiography, ancient inscriptions, medieval Hebrew biblical exegesis, religious rites, building and architecture, temples, the art of warfare, Semitic philology, Sumerian proverbs, epigraphy, rhetoric and stylistics, poetry, lamentations, the interconnections between Hebrew Scripture and the ancient Near East, the cultures of ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia, innerbiblical parallels, and many other subjects.

A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts

Author : Jöran Friberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387345434
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts written by Jöran Friberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyzes the mathematical tablets from the private collection of Martin Schoyen. It includes analyses of tablets which have never been studied before. This provides new insight into Babylonian understanding of sophisticated mathematical objects. The book is carefully written and organized. The tablets are classified according to mathematical content and purpose, while drawings and pictures are provided for the most interesting tablets.

History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols)

Author : Juan-Pablo Vita
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004445218
Total Pages : 1677 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols) by : Juan-Pablo Vita

Download or read book History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols) written by Juan-Pablo Vita and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 1677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Akkadian Language offers a detailed chronological survey of the oldest known Semitic language and one of history’s longest written records. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors.

Legitimising Magic

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004687416
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Legitimising Magic written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As magic is a powerful means to influence the natural world and human beings, and is deeply connected to the divine sphere, persons using it are in constant need to justify its use. The ambivalence of magic to serve both well-wishing and ill-wishing aims puts the practitioners ever at risk. This volume illuminates the strategies adopted to legitimise the practice of magic and analyses how these justifications are phrased and formulated in cuneiform texts, thereby revealing the underlying principles and unexplained axioms of using magic in the Ancient Near East.

Being a Man

Author : Ilona Zsolnay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317280547
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Being a Man written by Ilona Zsolnay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a Man is a formative work which reveals the myriad and complex negotiations for constructions of masculine identities in the greater ancient Near East and beyond. Through a juxtaposition of studies into Neo-Assyrian artistic representations and omens, biblical hymns and narrative, Hittite, Akkadian, and Indian epic, as well as detailed linguistic studies on gender and sex in the Sumerian and Hebrew languages, the book challenges traditional understandings and assumed homogeneity for what it meant "to be a man" in antiquity. Being a Man is an indispensable resource for students of the ancient Near East, and a fascinating study for anyone with an interest in gender and sexuality throughout history.

The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East

Author : Karen Radner
Publisher : Oxford History of the Ancient
ISBN 13 : 0190687851
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East written by Karen Radner and published by Oxford History of the Ancient. This book was released on 2020 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1. From the beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the dynasty of Akkad.

Empirische Dimension Altorientalischer Forschungen

Author : Gebhard J. Selz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643500351
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Empirische Dimension Altorientalischer Forschungen written by Gebhard J. Selz and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume's 23 contributions from senior and younger researchers working with the Ancient Near Eastern heritage are based on the hypothesis of a general empiric attitude of Ancient Mesopotamian scholarship. The articles try to elucidate these underlying principles, making use of various sorts of modern theories and methods. The book covers a broader range of topics: astronomy, politics, agriculture and irrigation, linguistics, architecture, medicine and others.