The Scribes And Scholars Of The City Of Emar In The Late Bronze Age
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The Scribes And Scholars Of The City Of Emar In The Late Bronze Age
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Author : Yoram Cohen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-08-14
The Scribes And Scholars Of The City Of Emar In The Late Bronze Age written by Yoram Cohen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book aims to place Emar's scribal school institution within its social and historical context.
Wisdom From The Late Bronze Age
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Author : Yoram Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Release Date : 2013-09-25
Wisdom From The Late Bronze Age written by Yoram Cohen and has been published by Society of Biblical Lit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-25 with Religion categories.
This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1200 B.C.E.) found at the ancient Near Eastern sites of Hattuša, Emar, and Ugarit. These wisdom compositions constitute the missing link between the great Sumerian wisdom corpus and early Akkadian wisdom literature of the Old Babylonian period, on the one hand, and the wisdom compositions of the first millennium B.C.E., on the other. Included here are works such as the Ballad of Early Rulers, Hear the Advice, and The Date-Palm and the Tamarisk, as well as proverb collections from Ugarit and Hattuša. A detailed introduction provides an assessment of the place of wisdom literature in the ancient curriculum and library collections.
Bodies Of Knowledge In Ancient Mesopotamia
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Author : Matthew Rutz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Bodies Of Knowledge In Ancient Mesopotamia written by Matthew Rutz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with History categories.
In Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Matthew Rutz explores the relationship between ancient collections of texts, commonly deemed libraries and archives, and the modern interpretation of titles like ‘diviner’. By looking at cuneiform tablets as artifacts with archaeological contexts, this work probes the modern analytical categories used to study ancient diviners and investigates the transmission of Babylonian/Assyrian scholarship in Syria. During the Late Bronze Age diviners acted as high-ranking scribes and cultic functionaries in Emar, a town on the Syrian Euphrates (ca. 1375-1175 BCE). This book’s centerpiece is an extensive analytical catalogue of the excavated tablet collection of one family of diviners. Over seventy-five fragments are identified for the first time, along with many proposed joins between fragments.
Debt And Indebtedness At Emar
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Author : Maurizio Viano
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-06-19
Debt And Indebtedness At Emar written by Maurizio Viano and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-19 with Religion categories.
This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects of credit access and indebtedness as well as on the motivations behind debts and debt settlement in the city of Emar. The credit system is analyzed through several factors: the purpose of debts, i.e., productive or consumptive; the procedures for granting loans; the strategies put in place to meet an obligation and to cope with economic difficulties; the consequences of non-fulfillment, which may lead to servitude or slavery; the different types of slavery; slave prices; the mechanisms of enslavement; and termination of slavery. Moneylending practices and the formation of servile conditions at Emar are studied in the context of the Syrian economy aiming to understand whether the Emar evidence conforms with a socio political and economic crisis that is generally acknowledged to have struck Syria, Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia at the end of the Late Bronze Age. This work is of sure relevance for scholars interested in socio-economic history, not only of the pertinent historical-geographical area.
Scribes As Sages And Prophets
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Author : Jutta Krispenz
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-11-09
Scribes As Sages And Prophets written by Jutta Krispenz and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-09 with Religion categories.
Scholars of the Hebrew Bible used to look at „Prophecy" and „Wisdom" as clearly distinct realms represented by antagonistic and mutually exclusive roles of their central characters: the loyal sage, the pillar of administration, on the one side and the rebellious prophet, criticizing the establishment, on the other. While the influence of wisdom thought on prophetic texts has been a topic in the scholarly debate, the complementary question of the influence of prophetic thought on wisdom texts has rarely been asked. The contributions in this volume look at both questions: They start from the assumption that texts from the Hebrew Bible and the cultures surrounding Ancient Israel all originated from a social stratum of educated scribes, who authored and transmitted these texts. It then seems plausible that wisdom texts might show similar traces of prophetic influence to those of wisdom thoughts found in prophetic texts. The essays give a multifaceted picture concerning the mutual perception of prophets and sages and thus provide a deeper understanding of both wisdom literature and prophecy.
Semitic Languages In Contact
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Author : Aaron Butts
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-09-29
Semitic Languages In Contact written by Aaron Butts and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume contains twenty case studies analysing various aspects of language contact involving ancient and modern Semitic languages.
Script And Society
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Author : Philip J. Boyes
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2021-03-15
Script And Society written by Philip J. Boyes and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-15 with Social Science categories.
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan. This variety in script and language is accompanied by writing practices that blend influences from Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Levantine traditions together with what seem to be distinctive local innovations. Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit explores the social and cultural context of these complex writing traditions from the perspective of writing as a social practice. It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the relationship between writing and place, and the complex relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects. This forms a case- study for a wider discussion of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of writing practices in the ancient world.
Babylonian Ceremonial Script In Its Scholarly Context
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Author : Carole Roche-Hawley
language : en
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Release Date : 2024-03-15
Babylonian Ceremonial Script In Its Scholarly Context written by Carole Roche-Hawley and has been published by Lockwood Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-15 with History categories.
Since the advent of Assyriology in the early nineteenth century it has been known that two distinct scripts were used in ancient Mesopotamian inscriptions and documents. One, usefully characterized as "cursive," was used for the ephemeral documents of "daily life" as well as on most library and archival texts. The other was a deliberately archaizing script reserved for ceremonial use. This ceremonial script, of Babylonian origin, contained both archaic and archaizing signs, and was in productive use for over two millennia, not only in Babylonia but occasionally also in Assyria and beyond. Yet to date there has been no systematic study devoted specifically to this ceremonial script, nor any published syllabary of the archaic and archaizing signs it employs. This volume attempts to rectify this deficiency by providing a substantive introduction to Babylonian ceremonial script, along with a history of its modern study, and several case studies of how the script was actually used. The introduction is supplemented by an edition of the paleographic lists of the second and first millennia BCE, which contain pedagogical inventories of the archaic and archaizing cuneiform signs, illustrating how the ceremonial script was taught, learned and transmitted in scholarly contexts.
Scribes And Scrolls At Qumran
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Author : Sidnie White Crawford
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-02
Scribes And Scrolls At Qumran written by Sidnie White Crawford and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with Religion categories.
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls altered our understanding of the development of the biblical text, the history and literature of Second Temple Judaism, and the thought of the early Christian community. Questions continue to surround the relationship between the caves in which the scrolls were found and the nearby settlement at Khirbet Qumran. In Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford combines the conclusions of the first generation of scrolls scholars that have withstood the test of time, new insights that have emerged since the complete publication of the scrolls corpus, and the much more complete archaeological picture that we now have of Khirbet Qumran. She creates a new synthesis of text and archaeology that yields a convincing history of and purpose for the Qumran settlement and its associated caves.
Hittite Landscape And Geography
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Author : Mark Weeden
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-05-20
Hittite Landscape And Geography written by Mark Weeden and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-20 with Reference categories.
Hittite Landscape and Geography provides a holistic geographical perspective on the study of the Late Bronze Age Hittite Civilization from Anatolia (Turkey) both as it is represented in Hittite texts and modern archaeology.