Registers and modes of communication in the ancient Near East: getting the message across

Communicating in the past; connecting with the past / Gillan Davis and Kyle H. Keimer -- Part I. Imperial and court communications -- Introduction to part I -- The disappearance of cuneiform from the West and elites in the ancient near east / Noel Weeks -- Contrasting representations and the Egypto-...

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Contributors: Keimer, Kyle H. ca. 20./21. Jh. (Editor) ; Davis, Gillan (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
In:Year: 2020
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Edition:First issued in paperback
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Near East / Communication / Geschichte Anfänge-1500
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Interpersonal relations and culture
B Communication (Middle East) History To 1500
B Communication History To 1500 Middle East
B Interpersonal relations and culture History To 1500 Middle East
B Interpersonal relations and culture (Middle East) History To 1500
B Semiotics
B Communication
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Summary:Communicating in the past; connecting with the past / Gillan Davis and Kyle H. Keimer -- Part I. Imperial and court communications -- Introduction to part I -- The disappearance of cuneiform from the West and elites in the ancient near east / Noel Weeks -- Contrasting representations and the Egypto-Hittite treaty / Samuel Jackson -- Text and context: the question of audience for Sennacherib's 'Public' inscriptions / Luis R. Siddall -- Communication and miscommunication in the Southern sky: the Case of Scorpio and the Southern Cross in cuneiform / Wayne Horowitz -- Imperialism and language: observations on bilingual inscriptions from Palmyra / Samuel N.C. Lieu -- Part II. Community communications -- Introduction to Part II -- "Guard it on your tongue!": the Second Rubric in the Deir Alla Plaster texts as an instruction for the oral performance of the narrative / Gareth Wearne -- Juxtaposition and narrative evaluation in Joshua 1-2 / Rachelle Gilmour -- Literature as flexible communication: variety in Hebrew Biblical texts / Ian Young -- The use of paleo-Hebraic script on Jewish revolt coins: a semiotic focus / Rachel Mansfield, Benjamin Overcash, and Stephen Llewelyn -- Part III. Communications between families and individuals -- Introduction to Part III. -- From Dragomans to Babel: the role of interpreters in the ancient near East in the 1st millennium B.C.E. / Peter Zilberg -- Sex, lies and beautiful eyes: divine communication and premarital relations in Sumerian poetry / Louise M. Pryke -- Communication within a dysfunctional family in late antique Egypt / Alanna Nobbs
ISBN:0367594633