Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools

Sumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to questions of text-building during the Old Babylonian p...

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Main Author: Crisostomo, C. Jay (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of ancient Near Eastern religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 121-142
Further subjects:B Sumerian literature lexical texts Old Babylonian education scribal practices text-building
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