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- Title: On Reading Archival Texts: M. Jursa's Comments to OIP 122 and the Limits of Criticism.
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 198 KB
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In his landmark essay, "Assyriology Why and How?" (1) A. Leo Oppenheim referred to two distinct categories of cuneiform documents: the tablets that were part of the "stream of tradition," consisting of the corpus of literary texts, and the "mass of texts of all descriptions ... [which] were used to record the day-to-day activities of the Babylonians and Assyrians." (2) Referring to the latter, Oppenheim asked: "What information do these texts contain? How and to what degree can this information be utilized for the understanding of Mesopotamian life and customs?" (3) In our time, publishing "clay tablets in their archival arrangement" has emerged as of "vital importance." (4) Individual scholars as well as others working in major projects have come forward to engage in this line of investigation and to attempt to answer the above questions. In the spirit of the advancement of our knowledge of clay tablet collections and various aspects of their archival arrangement, I wish to address the contents of an article published by a scholar who has had a major role in, and impact upon, this field.
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