Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools
| Autor: | C. Jay Crisostomo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Literature
History Ancient literature Copying Biblical studies business.industry 05 social sciences Religious studies 06 humanities and the arts 050905 science studies 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Linguistics language.human_language 060302 philosophy language Sumerian Social sphere 0509 other social sciences business Period (music) Assyriology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions. 15:121-142 |
| ISSN: | 1569-2124 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/15692124-12341271 |
| Popis: | Sumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to questions of text-building during the Old Babylonian period (c. 1800–1600 bce). Copying practices evident in lexical texts indicate that students and scholars adopted various methods of replication, including visual copying, copying from memory, and ad hoc innovation. They were not confined to reproducing a received text. Such practices extend to copying literary compositions. A study of compositions from Advanced Lexical Education in comparison with several literary compositions shows a complex inter-dialectic between the corpora, in which lexical compositions demonstrate dependence on literary compositions and vice versa. Thus, Old Babylonian students and scholars could experiment with multiple text-building practices, drawing on their knowledge of the lexical and the literary, regularly creating new versions of familiar compositions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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