“Keeping home and hearth together”: a scribe’s adaptation of adoption and inheritance division templates from Old Babylonian Nippur scribal schools

In Old Babylonian Nippur, inheritance divisions and adoptions were distinctive and customary agreements. Sometimes the involved parties obtained the services of a scribe to conceptualise the orally agreed arrangements into a recording. A recording was drafted from a template that was learned during...

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Main Author: Van Wyk, Susandra J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Unisa Press 2019
In: Journal for semitics
Year: 2019, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-34
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Scribe / Nippur / Heir (Person) / Adoption / Erbteil / History
RelBib Classification:BC Ancient Orient; religion
Further subjects:B Scribal school
B Inheritance
B Division
B Old Babylonia
B Adoption
B Nippur
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