By Charles Halton on Friday, 28 December 2007 at 11:39 pm

A few posts ago I mentioned an article by Livingstone concerning literacy within the Neo-Assyrian court. Here are a few more articles (that are FREE to download no less!–here’s the link, the articles are listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name) that are worth your while and deal with authorship or literacy:

Ben Foster discusses Mesopotamian views of authorship which were markedly different than our modern ones: Foster, B.R., ‘On authorship in Akkadian literature’, Annali dell’Istituto Orientale di Napoli 51 (1991), 17-32.

Simo Parpola publishes an extraordinary text that shows that a military commander was functionally literate enough to write to a mayor in order to ask him to send a scribe: Parpola, S., ‘The man without a scribe and the question of literacy in the Assyrian empire’, in B. Pongratz-Leisten et al. (eds.), Ana Å¡adî Labnāni lÅ« allik: Festschrift für Wolfgang Röllig (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 247), Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1997, pp. 315-324.

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Category: Akkadian Language,All,Literacy,Mesopotamia

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