TY - BOOK ID - 3354214 TI - Education in early 2nd millennium BC Babylonia : the Sumerian espistolary miscellany AU - Kleinerman, Alexandra AU - Brill PY - 2011 VL - 42 SN - 9789004212428 9789004214231 9004214232 1283270757 9781283270755 9004212426 9786613270757 661327075X PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Education KW - Sumerian literature. KW - History KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Éducation KW - Histoire KW - Sources KW - Irak KW - Babylone (ville ancienne) KW - Éducation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3354214 AB - This book examines a collection of twenty-two literary letters and related compositions – the Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany (SEpM) – studied as part of the Old Babylonian Sumerian scribal curriculum, in an attempt to better understand the education system at this time. The author includes discussion of the nature of the letters as scribal inventions, the pedagogical function of literary letters and compilation tablets, as well as the creation, implementation and consistency of the advanced Sumerian scribal curriculum. The volume also contains critical editions of SEpM as well as ancillary Sumerian letters studied in the Nippur schools, the majority of which were previously unpublished. ER -