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200 1. $a Alphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform $b Texte imprimé $e sëpiru professionals in Mesopotamia in the neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods $f Yigal Bloch
214 .0 $a Piscataway, NJ, USA $c Gorgias press $d 2018
215 .. $a xv, 497 pages $d 24 cm
225 |. $a Gorgias studies in the ancient Near East $v 11
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references and index
330 .. $a This book discusses the alphabetic scribes (sëpiru) mentioned in Mesopotamian documents
of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods - specifically, of the 6th-5th centuries
BCE. The period in question saw a wide diffusion of writing in the Northwest Semitic
alphabetic script - mostly in Aramaic - in Mesopotamia; yet, alphabetic texts were
normally written in ink on perishable materials and did not survive to be discovered
by modern archaeologists. In contrast, cuneiform tablets written on clay have been
found in large numbers, and they document different aspects of the alphabetic scribes'
activities. This book presents evidence for understanding the Akkadian term sëpiru
as a designation for an alphabetic scribe and discusses the functions of these professionals
in different administrative and economic spheres. It further considers the question
of the ethnic origins of the alphabetic scribes in Mesopotamia, with special attention
to the participation of Judeans in Babylonia in this profession. Bloch also provides
translations of over 100 cuneiform documents of economic, legal and administrative
content
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