Administrative Reality and Scribal Apparatus in the Middle Babylonian Period, with Accompanying Texts

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-46910-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 67, 644 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Harvard Semitic Monographs

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tenney, Jonathan S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan S. Tenney, Ph.D. (2009), University of Chicago, is Eric Yarrow Associate Professor of Assyriology, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He publishes books and articles on Mesopotamian History and cuneiform records.