He Has Opened Nisaba's House of Learning

He Has Opened Nisaba's House of Learning
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9789004260757
ISBN-13 : 9004260757
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Book Synopsis He Has Opened Nisaba's House of Learning by : Leonhard Sassmannshausen

Download or read book He Has Opened Nisaba's House of Learning written by Leonhard Sassmannshausen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In He has Opened Nisaba’s House of Learning twenty-six scholars honor Åke Sjöberg, professor emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania and former editor of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary. The twenty-one studies included focus on Mesopotamian wisdom literature, religious texts, cultural concepts, the history of writing, material culture, society, and law from the invention of writing to the Hellenistic period. The volume includes editions of several previously unpublished texts.


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