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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Otros Autores: Keimer, Kyle H. ca. 20./21. Jh. (Editor ) ; Davis, Gillan (Editor )
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
En:Año: 2020
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Edición:First issued in paperback
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Naher Osten / Comunicación / Geschichte Anfänge-1500
Otras palabras clave: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 Colección de artículos
B Interpersonal relations and culture (Middle East) History To 1500
B Semiotics
B Communication
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Sumario: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