书目名称 | Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk |
编辑 | Christine Proust,John Steele |
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概述 | Investigates scholars and scholarship in two different contexts, one private and one temple.Provides a case study for the micro-historical analysis of ancient scholarly archives.Combines archaeologica |
丛书名称 | Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter |
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描述 | .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 indivi |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | Babylonian Science; Babylonian Scholarship; Cuneiform Mathematics; Cuneiform Astronomy; Ancient Librarie |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04176-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-04176-2Series ISSN 2662-9933 Series E-ISSN 2662-9941 |
issn_series | 2662-9933 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 |