Texts and Contexts : The Circulation and Transmission of Cuneiform Texts in Social Space.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Studies in Ancient near Eastern Records (SANER) Series ; v.9 .
- Studies in Ancient near Eastern Records (SANER) Series .
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Textual Circulation and Performance -- 2. Emar's entu Installation -- 3. Contextualizing Tradition -- 4. Texts and Performance -- Textual Circulation and Administrative Praxis -- 5. Contingency Tables and Economic Forecasting in the Earliest Texts from Mesopotamia -- 6. Ur III Administrative Texts -- 7. Policing, Planning, and Provisos -- Textual Circulation and the Mechanics of Production -- 8. The "Magic" of Adapa -- 9. The Text after the Sacrifice -- 10. Songs of Clay -- 11. Neo-Assyrian Scribes, "Esarhaddon's Succession Treaty," and the Dynamics of Textual Mass Production.