Scholars and scholarship in late Babylonian Uruk
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Scholars and scholarship in late Babylonian Uruk
(Why the sciences of the ancient world matter, v. 2)
Springer, c2019
- : hardback
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 individual scribes. In doing so, it answers questions of interest not only for the study of Babylonian scholarship but also for the study of ancient Mesopotamian textual culture more generally, and for the study of traditions of written knowledge in the ancient world.
目次
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-Sin Family (Uri Gabbay and Enrique Jimenez).- Chapter 3. A Mathematical Collection Found in the "House of the asipus". The Art of Metrology in Achaemenid Uruk (Christine Proust).- Chapter 4. Astronomical Activity in the 'House of the asipus' in Uruk (John Steele).- Chapter 5. Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian Uruk (Hermann Hunger).- Chapter 6. Scholarly Mathematics in the Res 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).
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