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Back to school in Babylonia

Title
Back to school in Babylonia / edited by Susanne Paulus ; with Marta Díaz Herrere [and 4 others].
Publication
[Chicago] : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, [2023]

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  • Paulus, Susanne, 1982-
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Description
1 online resource.
Series Statement
ISAC Museum Publications ; number 1
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2024).
Contents
  • Front cover -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Contents -- Foreword, by Theo van den Hout -- Foreword, by Eleanor Robson -- Preface, by Marc Maillot -- Acknowledgments, by Susanne Paulus -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Essays -- 1. Back to School in Babylonia: The Aims of Babylonian Education, by Susanne Paulus -- 2. Old Babylonian Nippur in Its Environmental and Historical Settings, by Hervé Reculeau -- 3. The Archaeology of Nippur's House F and Its Neighborhood, by Augusta McMahon -- 4. Living the Edubbaʼa: School as Sensory Experience and Social Identity, by Madeline Ouimet
  • 5. Economic Life in the Scribal Quarter of Nippur, by Anne Goddeeris -- 6. Literacy in the Old Babylonian Period, by Dominique Charpin -- 7. Reconstructing the Elementary Nippur Curriculum, by Niek Veldhuis -- 8. Learning the Basics: The First Steps at School, by Klaus Wagensonner -- 9. Complex Lists: Between Didactics and Erudition, by Marta Díaz Herrera -- 10. Bilingualism and Akkadian, by Jay Crisostomo -- 11. Sumerian Grammar for Babylonians, by Colton G. Siegmund -- 12. Sumerian Proverbs, by William A. Younger -- 13. What Did They Learn about Mathematics? by Barbora Wichterlová
  • 14. Practicing Law, by Susanne Paulus -- 15. The Decad and Scribal Errors, by Paul Delnero -- 16. Adventures in a Legendary Past: Tales of Long-Ago Kings as Cultural Education, by Jane Gordon -- 17. Learning History, by Piotr Michalowski -- 18. What Did They Learn about Myths and Religion? by Christopher Metcalf -- 19. Learning Rhetoric through Sumerian Disputations, by Catherine Mittermayer -- 20. What Did They Learn about Women? by Jana Matuszak -- Part II: Catalog -- 21. Discovering a School in Nippur, by Madeline Ouimet and Susanne Paulus, with Laura D'Alessandro and Alison Whyte
  • 22. School Life in House F, by Marta Díaz Herrera, Jane Gordon, Danielle Levy, Madeline Ouimet, Susanne Paulus, and Ryan D. Winters -- 23. The Curriculum: From Signs to Literature, by Marta Díaz Herrera, Jane Gordon, Madeline Ouimet, Susanne Paulus, and Colton G. Siegmund -- 24. Topics of Education, by Marta Díaz Herrera, Jane Gordon, Jana Matuszak, Madeline Ouimet, Susanne Paulus, Colton G. Siegmund, Barbora Wichterlová, and Ryan D. Winters -- 25. After School, by Susanne Paulus, Colton G. Siegmund, and Ryan D. Winters -- List of Compositions -- Concordance of Museum Registration Numbers
ISBN
  • 9781614910992
  • 1614910995
OCLC
om4001674411
Title
Back to school in Babylonia / edited by Susanne Paulus ; with Marta Díaz Herrere [and 4 others].
Publisher
[Chicago] : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, [2023]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Series
ISAC Museum Publications ; number 1
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 20, 2024).
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Available from home with a valid library card
Added Author
Paulus, Susanne, 1982- editor.
EBSCOhost
Other Form:
Print version: Paulus, Susanne Back to School in Babylonia Chicago : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago,c2023 9781614910985
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