Texts and contexts
Subtitle: the circulation and transmission of cuneiform texts in social space
By: edited by Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger
Series: Studies in ancient Near Eastern records -- vol. 9
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781614517177; 9781614515371; 9781614519638
Subjects: Sumerian literature; Sumerian language; History and criticism; Assyro-Babylonian literature; Texts; Akkadian language; Congresses; History; Transmission of texts; Civilization
Notes: "The papers in this volume were first presented in their initial form at a one-day symposium organized by the editors at Johns Hopkins University on November 19, 2013"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Paul Delnero and Jacob Lauinger: Introduction: reassembling the social from texts and contexts; title: Textual circulation and performance. Daniel E. Fleming:  Emar's entu installation: revising ritual and text together; title: Gojko Barjamovic: Contextualizing tradition: magic, literacy and domestic life in Old Assyrian Kanesh; title: Paul Delnero: Texts and performance. The materiality and function of the Sumerian liturgical corpus:  textual circulation and administrative praxis; title: Christopher Woods: Evidence for economic forecasting in the earliest texts from Mesopotamia; title: Steven J. Garfinkle: Ur III administrative texts: building blocks of state community; title: Michael Kozuh: Policing, planning, and provisos: The function of legal texts in the management of the Eanna Temple's livestock in the first millennium BC. Contents: textual circulation and the mechanics of production; title: Sara J. Milstein: The "magic" of Adapa 191; title: Matthew Y. Rutz: The text after the sacrifice: divination reports from Kassite Babylonia; title: Christian W. Hess: Songs of clay: materiality and poetics in Early Akkadian epic 251; title: Jacob Lauinger: Neo-Assyrian scribes, Esarhaddon's succession treaty, and the dynamics of textual mass production.