TY - BOOK ID - 3430749 TI - Bodies of knowledge in ancient mesopotamia : the deviners of late bronze age emar and their tablet collection PY - 2013 VL - 9 SN - 9789004245679 9789004245686 9004245685 9781299476387 1299476384 9004245677 PB - Leiden [etc.] Brill DB - UniCat KW - Divination KW - Omens KW - Assyro-Babylonian religion. KW - Assyro-Babylonian literature. KW - Cuneiform tablets KW - History KW - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Divination / Fortune Telling KW - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Divination / General KW - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Prophecy KW - Portents KW - Prodigies (Omens) KW - Signs (Omens) KW - Superstition KW - Signs and symbols KW - Augury KW - Soothsaying KW - Occultism KW - Worship KW - Tablets, Cuneiform KW - Clay tablets KW - Cuneiform writing KW - Religion, Assyro-Babylonian KW - Religions KW - Akkadian literature KW - Babylonian literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3430749 AB - In Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Matthew Rutz explores the relationship between ancient collections of texts, commonly deemed libraries and archives, and the modern interpretation of titles like ‘diviner’. By looking at cuneiform tablets as artifacts with archaeological contexts, this work probes the modern analytical categories used to study ancient diviners and investigates the transmission of Babylonian/Assyrian scholarship in Syria. During the Late Bronze Age diviners acted as high-ranking scribes and cultic functionaries in Emar, a town on the Syrian Euphrates (ca. 1375-1175 BCE). This book’s centerpiece is an extensive analytical catalogue of the excavated tablet collection of one family of diviners. Over seventy-five fragments are identified for the first time, along with many proposed joins between fragments. ER -