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...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1. Introduction: Scholars, Scholarly Archives and the Practice of Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk (Christine Proust and John Steele)
• Chapter 2. Cultural Imports and Local Products in the Commentaries from Uruk. The case of the Gimil-Sîn Family (Uri Gabbay and Enrique Jiménez)
• Chapter 3. A Mathematical Collection Found in the "House of the āšipus". The Art of Metrology in Achaemenid Uruk (Christine Proust)
• Chapter 4. Astronomical Activity in the 'House of the āšipus' in Uruk (John Steele)
• Chapter 5. Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian Uruk (Hermann Hunger)
• Chapter 6. Scholarly Mathematics in the Rēš Temple (Mathieu Ossendrijver)
• Chapter 7. 'Star Anu, Lord of Heaven': The Influence of the Celestial Sciences on Temple Rituals in Hellenistic Uruk and Babylon (Julia Krul)
• Chapter 8. Interactions Between Greek and Babylonian Thought in Seleucid Uruk (Paul-Alain Beaulieu)
• Chapter 9. Uruk and the Greco-Roman World (Alexander Jones).