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Revealing the scholarly worlds behind the world's first writing system, this volume explores how cuneiform cultures classified, transmitted, and interpreted knowledge.
Cuneiform is the world's first preserved writing system, yet cuneiform texts and the associated cultures and practices remain undervalued across several disciplines. Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and Classification in Cuneiform Cultures explores the history of the earliest writing cultures of the ancient Middle East. Case studies reconstruct the intellectual frameworks and the transmission of knowledge of scribal cultures to show how specific texts and objects can be interpreted within their cultural contexts.
Eduardo A. Escobar is assistant professor of the history of science in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bologna. Kiersten Neumann is a curator of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum, Chicago, research associate at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, and lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. She is coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East.C. Jay Crisostomo is the George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and associate professor of Assyriology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Translation as Scholarship: Language, Writing, and Bilingual Education in Ancient Babylonia.
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