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Theory and practice of knowledge transfer : studies in school education in the ancient Near East and beyond : papers read at a symposium in Leiden, 17-19 December 2008 / edited by W.S. van Egmond and W.H. van Soldt.

Contributor(s): Egmond, W. S. van, 1970- | Soldt, W. H. van | Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije OostenMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 121.Publication details: Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2012. Description: 152 p. : ill , map; 27 cmISBN: 9789062583324 (pbk.)Other title: Studies in school education in the ancient Near East and beyondSubject(s): Writing -- History -- Congresses | Scribes -- History -- Congresses | Literacy -- History -- Congresses | Education -- History -- Congresses | Middle East -- Social conditions -- CongressesGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedings | History. | Conference papers and proceedings. | History.LOC classification: Z40 | .T44 2012
Contents:
Domesticizing Babylonian scribal culture in Assyria: transformation by preservation / N. Veldhuis -- Latin learning and learning Latin: knowledge transfer and literacy in the European Middle Ages / M. Mostert -- Literacy schooling and the transmission of knowledge in early Mesopotamian culture / P. Michalowski -- When style matters: literacy in an ‘illegible’ place in rural Mali / J. Jansen -- Informal schooling and textual communities: a medievalist’s ruminations on schooling in the ancient Near East / W.S. van Egmond -- The school curricula from Ḫattuša, Emar and Ugarit: a comparison / J.C. Fincke -- Why did they write? On empires and vassals in Syria and Palestine in the Late Bronze Age / W.H. van Soldt -- The historical and social background of the scribal school at the city of Emar in the Late Bronze Age / Y. Cohen -- Šamaš among the Hittites / G. Beckman -- Errors and mistakes: the narrow limits of orality-literacy research in the study of ancient cultures : the case of lexical lists from ancient Ḫattuša / T. Scheucher -- Reading between the lines: Hittite scribal conventions / W. Waal.
Summary: "The articles collected in this book were read as papers during a symposium held in Leiden in December 2008. This symposium focused on Theory and Practice of Knowledge Transfer and the papers discuss many aspects of this subject. Most articles deal with ancient Mesopotamia, but two of them look at Europe (classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) and one discusses a case from Mali. Most papers center around past and present relationships between orality and literacy in the societies discussed."--Page 4 of cover.
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International conference proceedings.

"The articles collected in this volume are based upon the papers presented during a symposium held in Leiden from 17 to 19 December 2008 titled Theory and practice of knowledge transfer. Comparative studies pertinent to schools of cuneiform writing. The symposium was part of the project The Transfer of Knowledge in a Cuneiform Culture sponsored by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The aim of the project was to reconstruct the school education in Syria and Anatolia as it was imported from Mesopotamia during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1200) and its impact on the local cultures"--Preface.

"The articles collected in this book were read as papers during a symposium held in Leiden in December 2008. This symposium focused on Theory and Practice of Knowledge Transfer and the papers discuss many aspects of this subject. Most articles deal with ancient Mesopotamia, but two of them look at Europe (classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) and one discusses a case from Mali. Most papers center around past and present relationships between orality and literacy in the societies discussed. An important aspect is the way knowledge was conveyed from master to student and the supposed transition from an oral tradition to a tradition that was predominantly based on writing. For this, much attention is paid to the many school texts that have been discovered in Mesopotamia and the peripheral areas to the west. Also, not every society made use of writing and at times special conditions seem to have fostered its adoption. Classical antiquity and medieval Europe provide valuable parallels for the data collected for Mesopotamia, as does a modern case from Africa. Finally, other aspects, such as scribal conventions and what we can learn from mistakes made by scribes, give us a better insight in how the scribes accomplished their task and how students acquired their knowledge"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Domesticizing Babylonian scribal culture in Assyria: transformation by preservation / N. Veldhuis -- Latin learning and learning Latin: knowledge transfer and literacy in the European Middle Ages / M. Mostert -- Literacy schooling and the transmission of knowledge in early Mesopotamian culture / P. Michalowski -- When style matters: literacy in an ‘illegible’ place in rural Mali / J. Jansen -- Informal schooling and textual communities: a medievalist’s ruminations on schooling in the ancient Near East / W.S. van Egmond -- The school curricula from Ḫattuša, Emar and Ugarit: a comparison / J.C. Fincke -- Why did they write? On empires and vassals in Syria and Palestine in the Late Bronze Age / W.H. van Soldt -- The historical and social background of the scribal school at the city of Emar in the Late Bronze Age / Y. Cohen -- Šamaš among the Hittites / G. Beckman -- Errors and mistakes: the narrow limits of orality-literacy research in the study of ancient cultures : the case of lexical lists from ancient Ḫattuša / T. Scheucher -- Reading between the lines: Hittite scribal conventions / W. Waal.

"The articles collected in this book were read as papers during a symposium held in Leiden in December 2008. This symposium focused on Theory and Practice of Knowledge Transfer and the papers discuss many aspects of this subject. Most articles deal with ancient Mesopotamia, but two of them look at Europe (classical antiquity and the Middle Ages) and one discusses a case from Mali. Most papers center around past and present relationships between orality and literacy in the societies discussed."--Page 4 of cover.