Administrative Reality and Scribal Apparatus in the Middle Babylonian Period, with Accompanying Texts
Series: Harvard Semitic Monographs; 67;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 18 December 2025
- ISBN 9789004469105
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This book uses cuneiform tablets from MIddle Babylonian Nippur to investigate how ancient institutions and governments perceived and recorded the world they governed.
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This book provides editions of 325 Akkadian texts, reconstructs aspects of the political recording process, and presents evidence of legal, epistolary, and administrative intertextuality at Kassite Nippur. Combining ideas from scholars in Assyriology and Political Science, it states that scribes working for political and institutional entities in Mesopotamia used abstractions of society, geography, processes, and even time, to establish bureaucratic order over a chaotic world. If such abstractions were employed in a bureaucratic environment that practiced post factum documentation, then administrative writing presents a reductionist "administrative reality" that affects the epistemological underpinnings of Assyriological investigations into Mesopotamian history and society.
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