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Author Robson, Eleanor, author.

Title Ancient knowledge networks : a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in first-millennium Assyria and Babylonia / Eleanor Robson.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2019.
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Online ebook. Open Access via JSTOR.
Online ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical abbreviations; Museum and excavation sigla; Dating conventions; Editorial conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. From 'Ashurbanipal's Library' and the 'stream of tradition' to new approaches to cuneiform scholarship; 3. Trust in Nabu? Assyrian royal attitudes to court scholarship; 4. The writing-board was at my house: Scholarly and textual mobility in seventh-century Assyria; 5. Grasping the righteous sceptre: Nabu, scholarship and the kings of Babylonia
6. At the gate of Eanna: Babylonian scholarly spaces before and after the early fifth century7. Conclusions: Towards a social geography of cuneiform scholarship; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Learning and scholarship -- Assyria -- History.
Learning and scholarship.
History.
Learning and scholarship -- Iraq -- Babylonia -- History.
Iraq.
Assyria -- Intellectual life.
Babylonia -- Intellectual life.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access. JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: Robson, Eleanor. Ancient knowledge networks. London : UCL Press, 2019 1787355969 9781787355965 (OCoLC)1104402730
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