Cuneiform

Author : Irving L. Finkel
Publisher : British museum Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714111889
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuneiform written by Irving L. Finkel and published by British museum Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could survive down to modern times, preserving fascinating documents from ancient civilization, written by a variety of people and societies. From reading these tablets we can understand not only the history and economics of the time but also the beliefs, ideas and superstitions. This new book will bring the world in which the cuneiform was written to life for the non-expert reader, revealing how ancient inscriptions can lead to a new way of thinking about the past. It will explain how this pre-alphabetic writing really worked and how it was possible to use cuneiform signs to record so many different languages so long ago. Richly illustrated with a wealth of fresh examples ranging from elementary school exercises to revealing private letters or beautifully calligraphic literature for the royal library, we will meet people that arent so very different from ourselves. We will read the work of many scribes from mundane record keepers to state fortune tellers, using tricks from puns to cryptography. For the first time cuneiform tablets and their messages are not remote and inaccessible, but wonderfully human documents that resonate today.

Author : Irving L. Finkel
Publisher : Ancient Scripts
ISBN 13 : 9781606064474
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuneiform written by Irving L. Finkel and published by Ancient Scripts. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to the use of clay tablets as a writing medium, cuneiform records have survived for thousands of years, providing a fascinating glimpse into the political, economic, and religious institutions of ancient Mesopotamia.

Author : Shalom Paul
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597524794
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Book of the Covenant in the Light of Cuneiform and Biblical Law written by Shalom Paul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Foreword by Samuel Greengus 1. Introduction 2. Cuneiform Law 3. Cuneiform Prologues and Epilogues to Legal Collections 4. The Problem of Prologue and Epilogue to the Book of the Covenant and Leading Features of Biblical Law 5. Annotations to the Laws of the Book of the Covenant 6. Summary Appendix I. Verse Arrangement of the Laws of the Book of the Covenant Appendix II. Cuneiform and Biblical Legal Formulations Bibliography Index of Sources

Author : C. B. F. Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061156
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuneiform written by C. B. F. Walker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the writing system used from before 3000 BC to AD 75 by Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, and other Mesopotamian cultures.

Author : Karen Radner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019161761X
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture written by Karen Radner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture examines the Ancient Middle East through the lens of cuneiform writing. The contributors, a mix of scholars from across the disciplines, explore, define, and to some extent look beyond the boundaries of the written word, using Mesopotamia's clay tablets and stone inscriptions not just as 'texts' but also as material artefacts that offer much additional information about their creators, readers, users and owners.

Author : C. B. Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520074316
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Past written by C. B. Walker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains six previously published titles brought together in a single volume.

Author : Marc Van De Mieroop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134646410
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History written by Marc Van De Mieroop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History discusses how the abundant Mesopotamian cuneiform text sources can be used for the study of various aspects of history: political, social, economic and gender. Marc Van De Mieroop provides a student-friendly introduction to the subject and: * criticises disciplinary methodologies which are often informed by a desire to write a history of events * scrutinises the intellectual background of historical writings * examines how Mesopotamia's position as the 'other' in Classical and Biblical writings has influenced scholarship * illustrates approaches with examples taken from the entirety of Mesopotamian history.

Author : Daniel C. Snell
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9781646021949
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Workbook of Cuneiform Signs written by Daniel C. Snell and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Daniel C. Snell's original workbook and informed by his decades of teaching, this new and improved textbook provides an introductory course in basic cuneiform signs. Using a method of repetition that asks the student to actively produce the signs as well as passively read them, it efficiently teaches more than one hundred basic signs in their Neo-Assyrian forms, all of which have been chosen for their recurrence and usefulness to the student. The workbook includes instructions and drills, frequent quizzes to reinforce retention, and notes that both provide context about the ancient cultures that used cuneiform and introduce modern scholarly conventions. Designed for beginning students of cuneiform languages and cultures, A New Workbook of Cuneiform Signs is an easy and intuitive way to learn cuneiform. It is a valuable resource for students and teachers alike.

Author : Eleanor Robson
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787355942
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Knowledge Networks written by Eleanor Robson and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first millennium BC, Eleanor Robson focuses on two regions where cuneiform script was the predominant writing medium: Assyria in the north of modern-day Syria and Iraq, and Babylonia to the south of modern-day Baghdad. She investigates how networks of knowledge enabled cuneiform intellectual culture to endure and adapt over the course of five world empires until its eventual demise in the mid-first century BC. In doing so, she also studies Assyriological and historical method, both now and over the past two centuries, asking how the field has shaped and been shaped by the academic concerns and fashions of the day. Above all, Ancient Knowledge Networks is an experiment in writing about ‘Mesopotamian science’, as it has often been known, using geographical and social approaches to bring new insights into the intellectual history of the world’s first empires.

Author : Jean-Jacques Glassner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801873898
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Cuneiform written by Jean-Jacques Glassner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Invention of Cuneiform" Jean-Jacques Glassner offers a compelling introduction to a seminal era in human history. Returning to early Mesopotamian texts that have been little studied or poorly understood, he traces the development of writing from the earliest attempts to the sophisticated system of roughly 640 signs that constituted the Sumerian repertory by about 3200 B.C.