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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).

Leiden & Boston, Brill, [2015]. XIII,362 pp. 8 b./w. plts. Orig. hardcover (boards). 8vo. (Cuneiform Monographs, Vol. 47). [ISBN: 978-90-04-30209-9]. - As new.The Class Reunion offers a critical edition, translation and commentary on the Sumerian scholastic dialogue otherwise known as Two Scribes and speaks to the central themes of scholastic thought in the Old Babylonian Tablet House (ca. 1800-1600 BCE). - New price at the publisher 170,--.