I. Materiality and literacies
1: Jonathan Taylor: Tablets as artefacts, scribes as artisans
2: Robert K. Englund: Accounting in proto-cuneiform
3: Grégory Chambon: Numeracy and metrology
4: Niek Veldhuis: Levels of literacy
5: Brigitte Lion: Literacy and gender
II. Individuals and communities
6: Benjamin R. Foster: The person in Mesopotamian thought
7: Frans van Koppen: The scribe of the Flood Story and his
circle
8: Hagan Brunke: Feasts for the living, the dead, and the gods
9: Michael Jursa: Cuneiform writing in Neo-Babylonian temple
communities
10: Eva von Dassow: Freedom in ancient Near Eastern societies
III. Experts and novices
11: Yoram Cohen & Sivan Kedar: Teacher-student relationships: two
case studies
12: Dominique Charpin: Patron and client: Zimri-Lim and Asqudum the
diviner
13: Michel Tanret: Learned, rich, famous and unhappy: Ur-Utu of
Sippar
14: Nele Ziegler: Music, the work of professionals
15: Silvie Zamazalová: The education of Neo-Assyrian princes
IV. Decisions
16: Sophie Démare-Lafont: Judicial decision-making: judges and
arbitrators
17: Karen Radner: Royal decision-making: kings, magnates and
scholars
18: Andreas Fuchs: Assyria at war: strategy and conduct
19: Anne Löhnert: Manipulating the gods: lamenting in context
20: Daniel Schwemer: Magic rituals: conceptualisation and
performance
V. Interpretations
21: Ulla Susanne Koch: Sheep and sky: systems of divinatory
interpretation
22: John M. Steele: Making sense of time: observational and
theoretical calendars
23: Fabienne Huber Vulliet: Letters as correspondence, letters as
literature
24: Eckart Frahm: Keeping company with men of learning: the king as
scholar
25: Heather D. Baker: From street altar to palace: reading the
built environment of urban Babylonia
VI. Making knowledge
26: Eleanor Robson: The production and dissemination of scholarly
knowledge
27: Steve Tinney: Tablets of schools and scholars: a portrait of
the Old Babylonian corpus
28: Mark Weeden: Adapting to new contexts: cuneiform in
Anatolia
29: Francesca Rochberg: Observing and describing the world through
divination and astronomy
30: Geert De Breucker: Berossos between tradition and
innovation
VII. Shaping tradition
31: Frans Wiggermann: Agriculture as civilization: sages, farmers,
and barbarians
32: Barbara Böck: Sourcing, organising, and administering medicinal
ingredients
33: Nicole Brisch: Changing images of kingship in Sumerian
literature
34: Caroline Waerzeggers: The pious king: royal patronage of
temples
35: Philippe Clancier: Cuneiform culture's last guardians: the old
urban notability of Hellenistic Uruk
Karen Radner is Reader in Ancient Near Eastern
History, University College London.
Eleanor Robson is Reader in Ancient Middle
Eastern Science, University of Cambridge
Thanks are due to the K. Radner and E. Robson for the care with
which they edited this voluminous book.
*Bibliotheca Orientalis*
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