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Ancient knowledge networks a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia

Robson, Eleanor (author.).

Summary: Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.

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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    remote
    1 online resource : illustrations
  • Publisher: London : UCL Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical abbreviations; Museum and excavation sigla; Dating conventions; Editorial conventions; 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
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 15, 2019).
Subject:
Learning and scholarship Assyria History
Learning and scholarship Iraq Babylonia History
Assyria Intellectual life
Babylonia Intellectual life

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