Ancient Knowledge Networks
A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia
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340 pages
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37 color plates
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9 1/4 x 6 1/4
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Table of Contents

Contents
1. Introduction
2. From ‘Ashurbanipal’s Library’
and ‘the stream of tradition’ to new approaches to cuneiform scholarship
3. Trust in Nabu? Assyrian royal
attitudes to court scholarship
4. The writing-board was at my
house: scholarly and textual mobility in seventh-century Assyria
5. Grasping the righteous
sceptre: Nabu, scholarship, and the kings of Babylonia
6. At the gate of Eanna: Babylonian
scholarly spaces before and after the early fifth century
7. Conclusions: Towards a social
geography of cuneiform scholarship
2. From ‘Ashurbanipal’s Library’
and ‘the stream of tradition’ to new approaches to cuneiform scholarship
3. Trust in Nabu? Assyrian royal
attitudes to court scholarship
4. The writing-board was at my
house: scholarly and textual mobility in seventh-century Assyria
5. Grasping the righteous
sceptre: Nabu, scholarship, and the kings of Babylonia
6. At the gate of Eanna: Babylonian
scholarly spaces before and after the early fifth century
7. Conclusions: Towards a social
geography of cuneiform scholarship
Review Quotes
Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley
“Ancient Knowledge Networks offers a fascinating portrait of the social and geographical life of cuneiform scholarship, scribal learning, or ṭupšarrūtu. It examines high cuneiform culture in the terms of the texts’ own taxonomies of knowledge, while taking full account of relevant archaeological evidence and employing micro- and macro-geographical analysis.”
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