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Christine (Hrsg.) Proust

Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk

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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 Achemeni… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Steele, John (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-3-030-04175-5
  • EAN: 9783030041755
  • Produktnummer: 29452489
  • Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 274 S.
  • Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.1 cm 594 g
  • Auflage: 2019
  • Abbildungen: Book; 15 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie
  • Gewicht: 594

Über den Autor


Christine Proust is a Senior Researcher at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris). Her primary focus is on the history of mathematics in the Ancient Near East, more specifically on mathematical cuneiform texts from different periods. She published Tablettes Mathématiques de Nippur (De Boccard, 2007) and she co-edited with Alain Bernard Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts throughout History: Problems and Perspectives (Springer 2014), and with Alexander Jones and John Steele A Mathematician's Journeys: Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science (Springer, 2016).   John Steele is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University. His research focuses on the history of the astral sciences in Babylonia and related traditions. He is the author or editor of several books including most recently Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy (Springer 2017) and The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (Brill 2016).  

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