Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Proust, Christine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Steele, John (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, 2
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; History, Ancient.; Middle East-History.; Archaeology.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; History of Science.; Ancient History.; History of the Middle East.

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia. It offers an exercise in micro-history that provides a case study for attempting to understand the relationship between scholars and scholarship during this time of great innovation. The papers...