ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020
Ancient Mesopotamian Priestly Scholasticism in the First Millennium BCE
The scholarly texts of ancient Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE, specifically commentaries written in Akkadian on cuneiform tablets, were the work of priests who also performed cultic activities in the temple. The proposed project seeks to demonstrate how these scholarly and cultic activities were interrelated and how they shaped the self-identity of the priestly-scholarly community that was in charge of both. The project thus aims to bridge the gap between the study of intellectual history and the study of priesthood in ancient Mesopotamia, which are treated as two separate fields in Assyriology. The project innovatively treats Mesopotamian scholarship and Mesopotamian priesthood as…
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