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100 1 _aCohen, Yoram,
_d1968-
245 1 4 _aThe scribes and scholars of the city of Emar in the Late Bronze Age /
_cby Yoram Cohen.
264 1 _aWinona Lake, Ind. :
_bEisenbrauns,
_c2009.
300 _a1 online resource (xxvi, 287 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aHarvard semitic studies ;
_v59
490 1 _aHarvard semitic museum publications
500 _aBased on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Harvard University, 2003) presented under the title: The transmission and reception of Mesopotamian scholarly texts at the city of Emar.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-266) and indexes.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- Introduction -- Schools, Scribes, and Scholars -- The Syrian Scribes -- Excursus: The Munbāqa-Ekalte Scribes -- The Syro-Hittite Scribes and Officials, Hittite Officials, and Foreign Scribes -- The Syrian Scholarly Scribes and the Syrian Tradition Scholarly Compositions -- The Syro-Hittite Scholarly Scribes and the Syro-Hittite Tradition Scholarly Compositions -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index of Personal Names -- Index of Place Names -- Index Locorum.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aThe city of Emar, modern Tell Meskene in Syria, is one of the most important sites of the western ancient Near East during the Late Bronze Age that have yielded cuneiform tablets. The discovery of more than one thousand tablets and tablet fragments assures Emar's position, along with Bogazkoy-Hattusa and Ras-Shamra-Ugarit, as a major scribal center. Ephemeral documents such as wills or sale contracts, texts about rituals and cultic festivals, school texts and student exercises, and inscribed seals and their impressions enable reconstruction of the Emar scribal school institution and provide materials for investigation into the lives of more than fifty scribes whose works were found in the city. The aim of this book is to place Emar's scribal school institution within its social and historical context, to observe the participation of its teachers and students in the study of the school curriculum, to investigate the role of the scribes in the daily life of the city (in particular within the administration), and to evaluate the school's and its members' position within the network of similar institutions throughout the ancient Near East.
650 0 _aScribes
_zSyria
_zEmar (Extinct city)
650 0 _aScholars
_zSyria
_zEmar (Extinct city)
650 0 _aCuneiform writing
_xHistory.
650 0 _aBronze age
_zSyria
_zEmar (Extinct city)
650 7 _aBronze age.
_2fast
650 7 _aCuneiform writing.
_2fast
650 7 _aIntellectual life.
_2fast
650 7 _aScholars.
_2fast
650 7 _aScribes.
_2fast
651 0 _aEmar (Extinct city)
_xIntellectual life.
651 7 _aSyria
_zEmar (Extinct city)
_2fast
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tThe Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2009,
_z9781575069319
830 0 _aHarvard Semitic Studies
_v59.
830 0 _aHarvard Semitic Museum Publications E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004365230.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004370043
999 _c38787
_d38787