Administrative Reality and Scribal Apparatus in the Middle Babylonian Period, with Accompanying Texts by Jonathan S Tenney
This book provides editions of 325 Akkadian texts, reconstructs aspects of the political recording process, and presents evidence of legal, epistolary, and administrative intertextuality at Kassite Nippur. Combining ideas from scholars in Assyriology and Political Science, it states that scribes working for political and institutional entities in Mesopotamia used abstractions of society, geography, processes, and even time, to establish bureaucratic order over a chaotic world. If such abstractions were employed in a bureaucratic environment that practiced post factum documentation, then administrative writing presents a reductionist "administrative reality" that affects the epistemological underpinnings of Assyriological investigations into Mesopotamian history and society.
Jonathan S. Tenney, Ph.D. (2009), University of Chicago, is Eric Yarrow Associate Professor of Assyriology, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He publishes books and articles on Mesopotamian History and cuneiform records.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004469105 |
| ISBN 10 | 9004469109 |
| Title | Administrative Reality and Scribal Apparatus in the Middle Babylonian Period, with Accompanying Texts |
| Author | Jonathan S Tenney |
| Series | Harvard Semitic Monographs |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2026-08-27 |
| Number of pages | 878 |
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