Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East: Getting the Message Across

ISBN-13: 9780367594633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 252 str.

Kyle H. Keimer; Gillan Davis

Opis

At the broadest level, communication entails many modes: verbal, iconographic, symbolic, written, and performed. The papers in this volume address communication in the ancient Near East. Particular focuses are imperial and court communications between rulers and ruled, communications intended for a given community, and those between families and

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General Introduction

Gillan Davis and Kyle H. Keimer, Communicating in the Past; Connecting with the Past

Part I. Imperial and Court Communications

Introduction to Part I

Chapter 1

Noel Weeks, The Disappearance of Cuneiform from the West and Elites in the Ancient Near East

Chapter 2

Samuel Jackson, Contrasting Representations and the Egypto-Hittite Treaty

Chapter 3

Luis R. Siddall, Text and Context: The Question of Audience for Sennacherib's 'Public' Inscriptions

Chapter 4

Wayne Horowitz, Communication and Miscommunication in the Southern Sky: The Case of Scorpio and the Southern Cross in Cuneiform

Chapter 5

Samuel N. C. Lieu, Imperialism and Language: Observations on Bilingual Inscriptions from Palmyra

Part II. Community Communications

Introduction to Part II

Chapter 6

Gareth Wearne, ‘Guard it on Your Tongue!’: The Second Rubric in the Deir ʿAlla Plaster Texts as an Instruction for the Oral Performance of the Narrative

Chapter 7

Rachelle Gilmour, Juxtaposition and Narrative Evaluation in Joshua 1-2

Chapter 8

Ian Young, Literature as Flexible Communication: Variety in Hebrew Biblical Texts

Chapter 9

Rachel Mansfield, Benjamin Overcash and Stephen Llewelyn, The Use of Paleo-Hebraic Script on Jewish Revolt Coins: A Semiotic Focus

Part III. Communications Between Families and Individuals

Introduction to Part III

Chapter 10

Peter Zilberg, From Dragomans to Babel: The Role of Interpreters in the Ancient Near East in the 1^st Millennium B.C.E.

Chapter 11

Louise M. Pryke, Sex, Lies and Beautiful Eyes: Divine Communication and Premarital Relations in Sumerian Poetry

Chapter 12

Alanna Nobbs, Communication within a Dysfunctional Family in Late Antique Egypt

O autorze

Kyle H. Keimer is Lecturer in the Archaeology and History of Ancient Israel and the Near East at Macquarie University, Australia.

Gillan Davis is Director, Program for Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Macquarie University, Australia.