{"product_id":"administrative-reality-and-scribal-apparatus-jonathan-s-tenney-9789004469105","title":"Administrative Reality and Scribal Apparatus in the Middle Babylonian Period, with Accompanying Texts","description":"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 \u003ci\u003epost factum\u003c\/i\u003e documentation, then administrative writing presents a reductionist \"administrative reality\" that affects the epistemological underpinnings of Assyriological investigations into Mesopotamian history and society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan S. Tenney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004469109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004469105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.24h x 7.60w x 1.81d","brand":"Jonathan S. Tenney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48991576785151,"sku":"9789004469105","price":353.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/administrative-reality-and-scribal-apparatus-jonathan-s-tenney-9789004469105","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}