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Altorientalische Forschungen
From the journal Altorientalische Forschungen Volume 43 Issue 1-2

Abstract

Samuel Noah Kramer’s writings, although now outdated and largely ignored, at the time gave the field a prominent profile in the outside world. Kramer’s “popularizing” approach is revisited and given a sophisticated updating.

Keywords: Sumerian School; Riddle; Teaching; Education; Outreach; Scribal Art

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Published Online: 2016-11-29
Published in Print: 2016-12-1

© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/aofo-2016-0010
Keywords for this article
Sumerian School; Riddle; Teaching; Education; Outreach; Scribal Art

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Frontmatter
  3. KBo 20.64: A Hittite Invocation Ritual Mentioning the Thunder
  4. ‘I Took You Up, Ḫukkana, the Lowly Dog...’
  5. The Middle Assyrian Letter Order VS 1, 105 (VAT 5385)
  6. On the Initial Function and Subsequent Evolution of Some Hurrian Affixes and Constructions
  7. Sumerograms and Akkadograms in Hittite: Ideograms, Logograms, Allograms, or Heterograms?
  8. Cuneiform Texts in the Creighton University
  9. Zur phonologischen Rekonstruktion von „Schin“ (‹Š›)im frühen Akkadisch (sargonische bis altbabylonische Zeit)
  10. The Goldsmith Zuzu(l)li and the Find-spots of the Inventory Texts from Ḫattuša
  11. Workshop
  12. Die Zukunft der Altorientalistik – The Future of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
  13. Einführung
  14. Destroyers of Civilization: Daesh and the 21st-Century University
  15. Wege der Vermittlung: Schulen und Museen
  16. Why Mesopotamia Matters
  17. Der Alte Orient in der Schule: Erfahrungen (und Perspektiven?) beim Verfassen von Geschichtslehrbüchern
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  23. Ausblick
  24. How Design Thinkers Could Help Ancient Near Eastern Studies
  25. Zusammenfassung der Abschlussdiskussionen und Ausblick
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