Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One Introduction -- Chapter Two Content -- Chapter Three Compilation -- Chapter Four Curriculum -- Chapter Five Correspondence -- Chapter Six Editions -- Appendix Textual Matrices -- Bibliography -- Index of Sumerian Words -- Index of Referenced Texts.

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This book examines a collection of twenty-two literary letters and related compositions – the Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany (SEpM) – studied as part of the Old Babylonian Sumerian scribal curriculum, in an attempt to better understand the education system at this time. The author includes discussion of the nature of the letters as scribal inventions, the pedagogical function of literary letters and compilation tablets, as well as the creation, implementation and consistency of the advanced Sumerian scribal curriculum. The volume also contains critical editions of SEpM as well as ancillary Sumerian letters studied in the Nippur schools, the majority of which were previously unpublished.