Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing
2019.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Springer eBooks.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Scholars, Scholarly Archives and the Practice of Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk (Christine Proust and John Steele)
- Chapter 2. Cultural Imports and Local Products in the Commentaries from Uruk. The case of the Gimil-Sîn Family (Uri Gabbay and Enrique Jiménez)
- Chapter 3. A Mathematical Collection Found in the zHouse of the āšipusy. The Art of Metrology in Achaemenid Uruk (Christine Proust)
- Chapter 4. Astronomical Activity in the ‘House of the āšipus’ in Uruk (John Steele)
- Chapter 5. Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian Uruk (Hermann Hunger)
- Chapter 6. Scholarly Mathematics in the Rēš Temple (Mathieu Ossendrijver)
- Chapter 7. ‘Star Anu, Lord of Heaven’: The Influence of the Celestial Sciences on Temple Rituals in Hellenistic Uruk and Babylon (Julia Krul)
- Chapter 8. Interactions Between Greek and Babylonian Thought in Seleucid Uruk (Paul-Alain Beaulieu)
- Chapter 9. Uruk and the Greco-Roman World (Alexander Jones).
