Administrative Reality and Scribal Apparatus in the Middle Babylonian Period, with Accompanying Texts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004469105)

This book provides editions of 325 Akkadian texts, reconstructs aspects of the political recording process, and presents evidence of legal, epistolary, and administrative intertextuality at Kassite Nippur. Combining ideas from scholars in Assyriology and Political Science, it states that scribes working for political and institutional entities in Mesopotamia used abstractions of society, geography, processes, and even time, to establish bureaucratic order over a chaotic world. If such abstractions were employed in a bureaucratic environment that practiced post factum documentation, then administrative writing presents a reductionist "administrative reality" that affects the epistemological underpinnings of Assyriological investigations into Mesopotamian history and society.

Author: Jonathan S. Tenney
ISBN-10: 9004469109
ISBN-13: 9789004469105
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2026
Pages: 644
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.21lbs
Size: 10.24h x 7.60w x 1.81d