Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44322-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 67, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

Reihe: Harvard Semitic Studies

Scribal Education in the Sargonic Period is an in-depth analysis of the process of education for scribes during the period of Sargonic hegemony in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 2335-2150 BCE). The book provides a holistic study of the topic, addressing the technology of writing, the school texts used in education, the languages of instruction, and the social and historical context of scribal life and an education in cuneiform writing.

The topic of scribal education at such an early period of Mesopotamian history has never been addressed at length before. Nicholas Kraus convincingly argues that scribal education during the Sargonic period was closely tied to the administrative institutions of the Sargonic Empire and prepared a scribe to become an effective administrator.

The Harvard Semitic Studies series publishes volumes from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant and Harvard Semitic Monographs, https://hmane.harvard.edu/publications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraus, Nicholas L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

1 Introduction

1.1 The Sargonic Period

1.2 Previous Research

1.3 The Concept of a Curriculum

1.4 The Sources

2 Writing Technology and Paleography

2.1 Tablet Manufacture

2.2 The Stylus

2.3 Tablet Layout and Organization

2.4 Current Research on Sargonic Paleography

2.5 Typology of Sargonic Tablets

2.6 Contextualizing Paleographic Developments

2.7 Tablet Orientation

2.8 Summary and Conclusion

3 The School Texts

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Elementary Exercises

3.3 Mathematics and Metrology

3.4 Model Administration

3.5 Literature

3.6 Traditional Lexical Lists

3.7 An Overview of the Curriculum

4 Scribal Education in Context

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Archaeological Evidence

4.3 The Sargonic E2-dub-ba-a?

4.4 Literacy in the Sargonic Period

4.5 The Language of Instruction

4.6 Conclusion

5 After Akkade

5.1 The Transmission of Knowledge

5.2 Summary and Conclusions

Appendix: School Tablets

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Kraus, Ph.D. (2018), Yale University, is a Research Fellow in the Institut für Altorientalistik at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has published several articles about the social and political history of Sargonic rule in Mesopotamia, such as When the King Came Down to Sumer: The Royal Sojourn of Sar-kali-sarre and the Court of Akkade (Iraq 2019).