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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. xiii, (1), 362pp. Indices and 13 page bibliography. Blue buckram lettered in white, with 1/2" yellow band at top. Illustrated with drawings of 8 cuneiform tablets at rear. In The Class Reunion-An Annotated Translation and Commentary on the Sumerian Dialogue Two Scribes, J. Cale Johnson and Markham J. Geller present a critical edition, translation and commentary on the Sumerian scholastic dialogue otherwise known as Two Scribes, Streit zweier Schulabsolventen or Dialogue 1. The two protagonists, the Professor and the Bureaucrat, each ridicule their opponent in alternating speeches, while at the same time scoring points based on their detailed knowledge of Sumerian lexical and literary traditions. But they also represent the two social roles into which nearly all graduates of the Old Babylonian Tablet House typically gained entrance. So the dialogue also reflects on larger themes such as professional identity and the nature of scholastic activity in Mesopotamia in the Old Babylonian period (ca. 1800-1600 BCE). (Publisher) Contents: Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; The Position of The Class Reunion in the Old Babylonian Curriculum; Modeling Insult, Verbal Abuse and Moral Judgement; Recognizing Institutional Roles: The Grotesque in the Old Babylonian Edubba; Rites of Institution; Intratextual Commentary and the Genesis of Scholastic Values; Translating Scholastic Values into Social Histories; Chapter 2 Synthetic Text and Translation; Chapter 3 Textual Criticism and Methodology; Individual Manuscripts; Two-column Editions and the Prism; Extract Tablets.; Principles of Textual Criticism Used in this Edition. Manuscripts Used in the Synthetic Text; Non-preferred Variants Attested in Two or More Manuscripts; Chapter 4 Manuscripts, Partitur and Commentary; Manuscripts from Nippur; Manuscripts from Ur; Manuscripts from Sippar; Partitur and Commentary; The Professor's Initial Salvo (P1); The Bureaucrat's Interjection (B1); The Professor's Provocation (P2); The Bureaucrat's Linen-for-a-flea Speech (B2); The Professor's Lazy-slavegirl Speech (P3); The Bureaucrat's Beer-without-dregs Speech (B3); The Professor's Trading-in-your-mother Speech (P4); The Professor's Parrot-a-classic Speech (P5)The Bureaucrat's Kiln Speech (B4); The Professor's Oven-of-mankind Speech (P6); The Bureaucrat's Barley-roaster Speech (B5); The Professor's Face-to-face Speech (P7); The Bureaucrat's Feast-of-the-gods Speech (B6); The Professor's Ash-heap Speech (P8); The Bureaucrat's City-quarter Speech (B7); The Professor's Aide-de-camp Speech (P9); Bibliography; Index of Akkadian Words; Index of Sumerian Words; Subject Index; Plates. (OCLC) Volume 47 in the Brill series, "Cuneiform Monographs." (CM).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Library binding, with several ink stamps inside, light 2 inch stain on spine, corners a bit rubbed, endpapers toned. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1914 Hard Cover. 960 pp. A collection of numerous articles on current political and social events, along with letters to the editor, music and drama reviews, books of the month and book review sections, etc. This volume for discussion of women's suffrage, anti-trust legislation, and the United States' relationship with Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. In the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the history of technical compendia as they moved between institutions and societies in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia.This volume offers new perspectives on the development and transmission of technical compilations, looking especially at the relationship between empirical knowledge and textual transmission in early scientific thinking. The eleven contributions to the volume derive from a panel held at the American Oriental Society in 2013 and cover more than three millennia of historical development, ranging from Babylonian medicine and astronomy to the persistence of Mesopotamian lore in Syriac and Arabic meditations on the properties of animals. The volume also includes major contributions on the history of Mesopotamian "rationality," epistemic labels for tested and tried remedies, and the development of depersonalized case histories in Babylonian therapeutic compendia. Together, these studies offer an overview of several important moments in the development of non-Western scientific thinking and a significant contribution to our understanding of how traditions of technical knowledge were produced and transmitted in the ancient world.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient's external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literature in Mesopotamia: physiognomic omens and what we might call ekphrastic description. These modalities are traced through ancient India, Ugaritic and the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the physiognomic features of famous historical figures such as Themistocles, Socrates or Augustus in the Graeco-Roman world, where physiognomic discussions become intertwined with typological analyses of human characters. The Arabic compendial culture absorbed and remade these different physiognomic and ekphrastic traditions, incorporating both Mesopotamian links between physiognomy and medicine and the interest in characterological 'types' that had emerged in the Hellenistic period.This volume offer the first wide-ranging picture of these modalities of description in antiquity.…

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