Elementary education in early second millennium BCE Babylonia:
In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal training due to its c...
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Zusammenfassung: | In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal training due to its cultural importance. This book provides transliterations and translations of 715 cuneiform scribal school exercise texts from the Jonathan and Jeanette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Studies Collection at Cornell University. These tablets, consisting mainly of lexical texts, illustrate the process of elementary foreign-language training at scribal schools during the Old Babylonian period. Although the tablets are all without provenance, discrepancies between these texts and those from other sites, such as Nippur and Ur, strongly suggest that the texts published here do not come from a previously studied location. Comparing these tablets with previously published documents, Gadotti and Kleinerman argue that elementary education in Mesopotamia was relatively standardized and that knowledge of cuneiform writing was more widespread than previously assumed.By refining our understanding of education in southern Mesopotamia, this volume elucidates more fully the pedagogical underpinnings of the world's first curriculum devised to teach a dead language. As a text edition, it will make these important documents accessible to Assyriologists and Sumerologists for future study |
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spelling | Gadotti, Alhena 1972- Verfasser (DE-588)1014021405 aut Elementary education in early second millennium BCE Babylonia by Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman University Park, Pennsylvania Eisenbrauns [2021] © 2021 1 Online-Ressource (257 Seiten, 25 Seiten Tafeln) Illustrationen txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Cornell University studies in assyriology and sumerology volume 42 In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal training due to its cultural importance. This book provides transliterations and translations of 715 cuneiform scribal school exercise texts from the Jonathan and Jeanette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Studies Collection at Cornell University. These tablets, consisting mainly of lexical texts, illustrate the process of elementary foreign-language training at scribal schools during the Old Babylonian period. Although the tablets are all without provenance, discrepancies between these texts and those from other sites, such as Nippur and Ur, strongly suggest that the texts published here do not come from a previously studied location. Comparing these tablets with previously published documents, Gadotti and Kleinerman argue that elementary education in Mesopotamia was relatively standardized and that knowledge of cuneiform writing was more widespread than previously assumed.By refining our understanding of education in southern Mesopotamia, this volume elucidates more fully the pedagogical underpinnings of the world's first curriculum devised to teach a dead language. As a text edition, it will make these important documents accessible to Assyriologists and Sumerologists for future study Geschichte 2002 v. Chr.-1595 v. Chr. gnd rswk-swf HISTORY / Ancient / General bisacsh Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian Translations into English Cuneiform tablets Iraq Babylonia Education, Elementary Iraq Babylonia History To 1500 Sumerian language Texts Sumerian language Study and teaching (Elementary) Iraq Babylonia History To 1500 Keilschrifttext (DE-588)4130946-7 gnd rswk-swf Sprachunterricht (DE-588)4056505-1 gnd rswk-swf Sumerisch (DE-588)4078069-7 gnd rswk-swf Babylonien (DE-588)4004102-5 gnd rswk-swf Babylonien (DE-588)4004102-5 g Sumerisch (DE-588)4078069-7 s Sprachunterricht (DE-588)4056505-1 s Keilschrifttext (DE-588)4130946-7 s Geschichte 2002 v. Chr.-1595 v. Chr. z DE-604 Kleinerman, Alexandra Verfasser (DE-588)1226361994 aut Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover 978-1-64602-138-3 Cornell University studies in assyriology and sumerology volume 42 (DE-604)BV049681876 42 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646021802 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
spellingShingle | Gadotti, Alhena 1972- Kleinerman, Alexandra Elementary education in early second millennium BCE Babylonia HISTORY / Ancient / General bisacsh Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian Translations into English Cuneiform tablets Iraq Babylonia Education, Elementary Iraq Babylonia History To 1500 Sumerian language Texts Sumerian language Study and teaching (Elementary) Iraq Babylonia History To 1500 Keilschrifttext (DE-588)4130946-7 gnd Sprachunterricht (DE-588)4056505-1 gnd Sumerisch (DE-588)4078069-7 gnd Cornell University studies in assyriology and sumerology |
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title | Elementary education in early second millennium BCE Babylonia |
title_auth | Elementary education in early second millennium BCE Babylonia |
title_exact_search | Elementary education in early second millennium BCE Babylonia |
title_exact_search_txtP | Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia |
title_full | Elementary education in early second millennium BCE Babylonia by Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman |
title_fullStr | Elementary education in early second millennium BCE Babylonia by Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman |
title_full_unstemmed | Elementary education in early second millennium BCE Babylonia by Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman |
title_short | Elementary education in early second millennium BCE Babylonia |
title_sort | elementary education in early second millennium bce babylonia |
topic | HISTORY / Ancient / General bisacsh Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian Translations into English Cuneiform tablets Iraq Babylonia Education, Elementary Iraq Babylonia History To 1500 Sumerian language Texts Sumerian language Study and teaching (Elementary) Iraq Babylonia History To 1500 Keilschrifttext (DE-588)4130946-7 gnd Sprachunterricht (DE-588)4056505-1 gnd Sumerisch (DE-588)4078069-7 gnd |
topic_facet | HISTORY / Ancient / General Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian Translations into English Cuneiform tablets Iraq Babylonia Education, Elementary Iraq Babylonia History To 1500 Sumerian language Texts Sumerian language Study and teaching (Elementary) Iraq Babylonia History To 1500 Keilschrifttext Sprachunterricht Sumerisch Babylonien |
url | https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646021802 |
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