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Das vorliegende Buch stellt einen Versuch dar, die Lücke in der Geschichte des Sumerischen zu schließen, die bislang zwischen den umfangreichen, gut untersuchten Textcorpora des späten dritten und frühen zweiten Jahrtausends v. Chr. und den relativ wenigen Vorkommen von Sumerisch im ersten Jahrtausend v. Chr. bestand.Untersucht werden zum einen – unter Heranziehung neuen Textmaterials aus dem Vorderasiatischen Museum Berlin – die Schreiberausbildung im kassitenzeitlichen Babylonien allgemein, zum anderen sprachliche Besonderheiten, Verwendungskontexte und ideologische Bedeutung des Sumerischen in jener Epoche. Obwohl es sich auf den ersten Blick um unterschiedliche Themen zu handeln scheint, besteht eine Verbindung zwischen ihnen, stellt doch die Schreiberausbildung die wichtigste Quelle dar, die den Verfassern sumerischer Texte in einer Zeit, in der es keine sumerischen Muttersprachler mehr gab, für ihre Kenntnis jener Sprache zur Verfügung stand.Die Analyse und der Vergleich mit den vorhergehenden und nachfolgenden Epochen erlauben es, Entwicklungslinien und regionale Tendenzen nachzuvollziehen; sie zeigen aber auch, dass es nicht einfach ist, kassitenzeitliches Sumerisch als Sprache zu beschreiben oder gar seine „Qualität“ zu bewerten. The present work attempts to close a gap in our knowledge of the history of Sumerian between the extensive and well-understood corpus of texts from the late 3rd to early 2nd millennia B.C.E. and the sparsely-attested Sumerian of the 1st millennium BCE. Consulting new textual materials from the Vorderasiatisches Museum of Berlin, this investigation devotes special attention to key linguistic features of Sumerian in this epoch, the contexts and ideological significance of its use, and scribal education in Kassite Babylonia generally. Although it may seem to handle disparate themes at first glance, these topics are in fact linked since scribal education provided the key source for knowledge of Sumerian in a time when there were no longer native Sumerian speakers. The analysis and the comparison with previous and subsequent epochs provided here allow lines of development and regional trends to come into clearer view, but they also show the inherent difficulty in describing Kassite Sumerian as a language and in assessing its quality.

Kassites --- History --- Babylonia --- Iraq --- Sumerian, Kassite period. --- scribal education.

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"This work presents a study of the use of the Sumerian language in Kassite Babylonia. Consulting new materials from the Vorderasiatisches Museum of Berlin, it analyzes key linguistic features of Sumerian as well as the contexts and ideological significance of its use with an eye toward gaining a broader understanding of scribal education in this period more generally"--Provided by publisher.

Babylonie --- Kassites --- Sumerian language --- Inscriptions --- Scribes --- Sumérien (Langue) --- History --- Sources --- Texts. --- Education --- Histoire --- Textes --- Babylonia --- Iraq --- Irak --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Sources.

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Karduniaš, as the kingdom of the Kassites in Babylonia was called in ancient times, was the neighbor and rival of great powers such as Egypt, the Hittites, and Assyria. But while our knowledge of the latter kingdoms has made huge progress in the last decades, the Kassites have until recently been largely ignored by modern scholarship. Recently a number of scholars have embarked on research into different aspects of Late Bronze Age Babylonia. The desire to share the results of these new investigations resulted in an international conference, which was held at Munich University in July 2011. The presentations given at this meeting have been revised for publication in the current volume.This book gives an overview of current research on the Kassites and is the first larger survey of their culture ever. An invaluable introduction by Kassite expert Professor John A. Brinkman is followed by seventeen specialist contributions investigating different aspects of the Kassites. These include detailed historical, social, cultural, archaeological, and art historical studies concerning the Kassites from their first arrival in Mesopotamia, during the period when a Kassite Dynasty ruled Babylonia (c. 1500-1550 BC), and in the subsequent aftermath. Concentrating on southern Mesopotamia the contributions also discuss Kassite relations and presence in neighboring regions.The book is completed by a substantial bibliography and a detailed index.

Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Kassites --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Kassites. --- Ancient Mesopotamia --- Assyro-Babylonian civilization --- Babylonian civilization --- Civilization, Babylonian --- Babylonia --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Sumer --- Antiquities --- Ancient Mesopotamia. --- Babylonia. --- Late Bronze Age.