Abstract
Cuneiform scholarly practices systematized an exploration of meaning potential. In cuneiform scholarship, knowledge making emerged from multiple scribal practices, most notably list-making, analogical reasoning, and translation. The present paper demonstrates how multilingualism stands at the core of cuneiform scholarly inquiry, enabling hermeneutical exploration of possibility and potential. Cuneiform scholarly practices of translation and analogical hermeneutics coupled with an understanding of the cuneiform writing system constituted a system analogous to the medieval artes grammaticae.
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Gösta Gabriel for organizing the original conference and editing this volume, the attendees at this conference for their many insights on this topic, and especially to Francesca Rochberg, Eduardo Escobar, and two anonymous readers for their comments on this paper and to Marc Van De Mieroop for our conversations on this topic. The present article should be considered largely a summation to the concepts I explore more systematically and extensively in Crisostomo (forthcoming).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Theses on Babylonian Philosophy
- Language, Translation, and Commentary in Cuneiform Scribal Practice
- The Reconciliation of Angry Personal Gods: A Revision of the Šuillas
- “As Your Name Indicates”: Philological Arguments in Akkadian Disputations
- The Perils of Omnisignificance: Language and Reason in Mesopotamian Hermeneutics
- Reasoning, Representing, and Modeling in Babylonian Astronomy
- The Reluctant En of Inana — or the Persona of Gilgameš in the Perspective of Babylonian Political Philosophy
- An Exemplificational Critique of Violence: Re-Reading the Old Babylonian Epic Inūma ilū awīlum (a.k.a. Epic of Atramḫasīs)
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Theses on Babylonian Philosophy
- Language, Translation, and Commentary in Cuneiform Scribal Practice
- The Reconciliation of Angry Personal Gods: A Revision of the Šuillas
- “As Your Name Indicates”: Philological Arguments in Akkadian Disputations
- The Perils of Omnisignificance: Language and Reason in Mesopotamian Hermeneutics
- Reasoning, Representing, and Modeling in Babylonian Astronomy
- The Reluctant En of Inana — or the Persona of Gilgameš in the Perspective of Babylonian Political Philosophy
- An Exemplificational Critique of Violence: Re-Reading the Old Babylonian Epic Inūma ilū awīlum (a.k.a. Epic of Atramḫasīs)