Bodies of knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia: the diviners of Late Bronze Age Emar and their tablet collection

In Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Matthew Rutz investigates how libraries and archives can be used to study ancient diviners, an approach illustrated using one family's cuneiform tablet collection from Emar on the Syrian Euphrates (ca. 1375-1175 BCE).

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Subtitles:Scholars, texts, and contexts : an archaeological and textual study of the Diviners' Archive from Late Bronze Age Emar, Syria
Main Author: Rutz, Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden BRILL 2013
In: Ancient magic and divination (9)
Year: 2013
Reviews:[Rezension von: Rutz, Matthew, Bodies of knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia : the diviners of Late Bronze Age Emar and their tablet collection] (2020) (Böck, Barbara)
Edition:1st ed.
Series/Journal:Ancient magic and divination 9
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mesopotamia / Religion / Divination / Omen (Popular belief)
Further subjects:B Assyro-Babylonian religion
B Cuneiform tablets ; Syria ; Emar (Extinct city)
B Assyro-Babylonian literature
B Electronic books
B Thesis
B Divination ; History ; To 1500
B Omens ; History ; To 1500
Online Access: Volltext (Aggregator)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic

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