Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture

Karen Radner - Eleanor Robson (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History. Oxford, 2011

CONTENTS:

I. Materiality and literacies

1: Jonathan Taylor: Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans

2: Robert K. Englund: Accounting in proto-cuneiform

3: Grégory Chambon: Numeracy and metrology

4: Niek Veldhuis: Levels of literacy

5: Brigitte Lion: Literacy and gender

II. Individuals and communities

6: Benjamin R. Foster: The person in Mesopotamian thought

7: Frans van Koppen: The scribe of the Flood Story and his circle

8: Hagan Brunke: Feasts for the living, the dead, and the gods

9: Michael Jursa: Cuneiform writing in Neo-Babylonian temple communities

10: Eva von Dassow: Freedom in ancient Near Eastern societies

III. Experts and novices

11: Yoram Cohen & Sivan Kedar: Teacher-student relationships: two case studies

12: Dominique Charpin: Patron and client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum the diviner

13: Michel Tanret: Learned, rich, famous and unhappy: Ur-Utu of Sippar

14: Nele Ziegler: Music, the work of professionals

15: Silvie Zamazalová: The education of Neo-Assyrian princes

IV. Decisions

16: Sophie Démare-Lafont: Judicial decision-making: judges and arbitrators

17: Karen Radner: Royal decision-making: kings, magnates and scholars

18: Andreas Fuchs: Assyria at war: strategy and conduct

19: Anne Löhnert: Manipulating the gods: lamenting in context

20: Daniel Schwemer: Magic rituals: conceptualisation and performance

V. Interpretations

21: Ulla Susanne Koch: Sheep and sky: systems of divinatory interpretation

22: John M. Steele: Making sense of time: observational and theoretical calendars

23: Fabienne Huber Vulliet: Letters as correspondence, letters as literature

24: Eckart Frahm: Keeping company with men of learning: the king as scholar

25: Heather D. Baker: From street altar to palace: reading the built

environment of urban Babylonia

VI. Making knowledge

26: Eleanor Robson: The production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge

27: Steve Tinney: Tablets of schools and scholars: a portrait of the Old Babylonian corpus

28: Mark Weeden: Adapting to new contexts: cuneiform in Anatolia

29: Francesca Rochberg: Observing and describing the world through divination and astronomy

30: Geert De Breucker: Berossos between tradition and innovation

VII. Shaping tradition

31: Frans Wiggermann: Agriculture as civilization: sages, farmers, and barbarians

32: Barbara Böck: Sourcing, organising, and administering medicinal ingredients

33: Nicole Brisch: Changing images of kingship in Sumerian literature

34: Caroline Waerzeggers: The pious king: royal patronage of temples

35: Philippe Clancier: Cuneiform culture's last guardians: the old urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk