Traditions of written knowledge in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
Subtitle: proceedings of two workshops held at Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main in December 2011 and May 2012
By: edited by Daliah Bawanypeck and Annette Imhausen
Series: Alter Orient und Altes Testament -- Band 403; Alter Orient und Altes Testament -- Bd. 403.
Publisher: Ugarit-Verlag
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Münster
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9783868350852
Subjects: Egyptian language; Akkadian language; Congresses; Writing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

6 English, 2 German contributions.
Table of contents: title: Die šs3w-Lehrtexte der heilkundlichen Literatur des Alten Ägypten: Traditionen und Textgeschichte  -- Tanja Pommerening; title: What you see is what you get?: comments on early Akkadian magical tradition based on physical aspects of incantation tablets  -- Nathan Wasserman; title: Normative structures in Mesopotamian rituals: a comparison of hand-lifting rituals in the second and first millenium BC  -- Daliah Bawanypeck; title: Contexts and elements of decanal star lists in ancient Egypt  -- Sarah Symons; title: Late Babylonian ziqpu-star lists: written or remembered traditions of knowledge?  -- John M. Steele; title: Normative structures in ancient Egyptian mathematical texts  -- Annette Imhausen; title: Written mathematical traditions in ancient Mesopotamia: knowledge, ignorance, and reasonable guesses  -- Jens Høyrup; title: Textstufen altbabylonischer Rechtssammlungen? -- Guido Pfeifer.